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Allowances surveys
… What are foster care
allowances
? All foster carers receive a weekly
fostering
allowance from their
fostering
service when they have a child living with them, …
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Make Foster Care Fair
… Wales, and Northern Ireland all have national minimum
allowances
set by their respective governments, but not all
fostering
services comply. Therefore, every year The
Fostering
Network checks the
allowances
paid by local …
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Fostering legislation in Wales
… (Wales) Act 2016 Statutory guidance The following three
fostering
services regulations were introduced following the 2014 and 2016 Acts: The Local Authority
Fostering
Services (Wales) Regulations 2018 and … on our webpage about When I am Ready. National Minimum
Allowances
for Foster Carers 2023 - 2024 National minimum …
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Claiming benefits - advice for members
… you may be entitled to claim benefits and tax credits. The
allowances
and fee (if you get one) you receive from
fostering
are normally completely disregarded as income or only taxable profit from your
fostering
is taken into consideration for the purposes of …
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Fees and allowances
…
Allowances
All foster carers receive a weekly
fostering
… set in each country, which can be viewed here . Read The
Fostering
Network's policy on
allowances
. The
Fostering
…
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Blog entry
December campaigns blog
… For four decades now The
Fostering
Network has been campaigning to improve the terms … people. Without our campaigning there wouldn’t be minimum
fostering
allowances
(we’re still working hard to get these introduced …
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Why do we conduct research?
… analysing the reasons why members are seeking The
Fostering
Network’s support and conducting surveys, we can … of children and young people, foster carers and
fostering
services, and the context in which they are having … a third of foster carers who participated said that their
allowances
do not meet the full cost of looking after a child …
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It's time to treat foster carers as the professionals that they are
… I've been involved in
fostering
for many years now. One of the debates I remember … foster carers are perceived by other professionals. At The
Fostering
Network we prefer 'foster carers' because we think … should review the level of national minimum
fostering
allowances
(and, in the case of Scotland introduce a …
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Government response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care – initial thoughts from The Fostering Network
… response to Care Review recommendations relevant to
fostering
You told us you foster because you want to make a … We asked in our care review survey whether you thought the
fostering
recommendations in the report were likely to … We called on the Government to conduct a full review of
allowances
and to raise the national minimum allowance (NMA) …
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News Story
Charity calls for minimum fostering allowances in Scotland as foster carers dig into their own pockets
… A Freedom of Information request by The
Fostering
Network in Scotland has revealed that some foster … foster carers. In England, Northern Ireland, and Wales,
fostering
services are obliged to give foster carers a … of local authorities were not paying their foster carers
allowances
equal to the minimum
allowances
in England and …
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