Foster Care Allowances - Freedom of information requests

Title or Description: Foster Care Allowances
FOI Number: 15380
Date Received: 28/06/2021
Type of Request: FOI
Request or Question: 1. Please could you tell me your 2020-21 weekly foster care allowances for all age bands, NOT including any fee/reward element for foster carers.2. Please detail any allowances that ALL foster carers can claim in addition to their weekly allowance, e.g. holiday allowance or mileage.
3. Please could you tell me your 2020-21 weekly allowances for former foster carers looking after young people in 16+/18+ Continuing Care arrangements, broken down by year 1, year 2, and year 3+ if necessary.
Response: 1.
Foster Care Allowance 0 - 10 yrs Weekly £132.54
Foster Care Allowance 11 yrs + Weekly £198.78

2. Allowances are paid on a 56 week a year basis with an additional week's allowance paid for a child's birthday, Christmas and 2 additional weeks for the summer holiday period. Additionally carers receive a telephone/broadband allowance and mileage at the following rates:
Telephone/Broadband Allowance Monthly £20.60
Mileage As claimed 35.1p per mile

3. Continuing carers are paid at the same rate (fees and allowances) as foster carers. This happens until a young person leaves Continuing Care.