- Request
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1. Is your organisation currently recruiting in-house foster carers?
2. How many in-house foster carers do you need to recruit this year? (Please provide number of households and number of carers as separate figures).
3. What is your annual spend on recruiting in-house foster carers? Please provide annual figures for the financial years 2018-2019, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23.
If any of the following questions would make answering this request unduly burdensome or exceed the length of time allotted for this request, please disregard them. For the financial years as above:
What is your annual spend on Independent Fostering Agencies?
What is your annual spend on in-house fostering?
What is your annual spend on residential children's homes?
What is your annual spend on respite care and short breaks?
- Decision
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1. Yes.
2. Lincolnshire County Council want to recruit at least 25 fostering households.
3. Recruitment team actual spend plus panel costs (as they also recruit adopters) x 50% as per CIPFA benchmarking returns
2018/2019
2019/2020
2020/2021
2021/2022
2022/2023
215,425
199,348
202,690
169,096
197,221
Independent fostering agencies actual spend 100% + Family Assessments IFAs
2018/2019
2019/2020
2020/2021
2021/2022
2022/2023
570,051
1,003,695
1,567,184
1,685,171
2,353,727
In-house fostering
2018/2019
2019/2020
2020/2021
2021/2022
2022/2023
8,628,540
9,308,160
9,533,045
10,110,404
11,371,170
Independent Residential Homes
2018/2019
2019/2020
2020/2021
2021/2022
2022/2023
5,770,959
7,044,083
11,548,487
12,407,186
8,605,171
In-House Residential Homes
2018/2019
2019/2020
2020/2021
2021/2022
2022/2023
2,861,253
3,493,335
4,094,276
3,797,319
4,197,175
Respite/Short Breaks Homes
2018/2019
2019/2020
2020/2021
2021/2022
2022/2023
1,103,429
1,176,749
1,215,689
1,080,625
1,280,949
Fostering Short breaks - £10,866.50.
- Reference number
- 6938905
- Date request received
- 26 May 2023
- Date of decision
- 15 June 2023