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Hertfordshire County Council

 

Fostering payments in Hertfordshire

As a foster carer, you’ll receive a weekly payment for your skills, plus a weekly allowance for each child you look after.

All foster carers receive:

  • skills payments whilst the child is in placement
  • annual leave payment
  • allowances for children in placement (including pocket money, holiday, birthday, furniture, clothing and festivities).

Carer payments when a child is placed with them

Skills payments

  • Foundation level – £0 per week
  • Standard level per week – £200.52 (age 0-10), £290.47 (age 11-17)
  • Enhanced payments/previous specialist level payment – up to £541.01 per week.

See Approved foster carers – payment policy for more detail about additional allowances and payments.

 

Allowances

  • Age 0-4 – £196 per week
  • Age 5-10 – £216 per week
  • Age 11-15 – £247 per week
  • Age 16-17 – £288 per week.

See Approved foster carers – payment policy for more detail about skills payments.

 

Annual leave

All Hertfordshire foster carers who actively foster are entitled to annual leave payments. For full time carers, the payment is equivalent to 2 weeks' skills payment.

Sleepover carers only are entitled to 1 week skills payment.

 

Exceptional/Additional payments 

In exceptional circumstances, additional allowances may be paid. These are agreed on a case by case basis and must not be covered by existing allowances. They may include:

  • costs of activities and trips
  • sports equipment
  • musical instruments
  • meeting special dietary requirements
  • additional hair / skin care needs relating to a young person’s ethnicity etc.

Specialist schemes

Mockingbird Hub carers

Hub carer payment of £541.01 per week, plus hub allowance and activity budget.

 

Parent and child carers

£811.52 skills payment  per week during placement

(£541.01retainer whilst awaiting placement)

Emergency foster carers

Daily payment of £75 Emergency retainer

Plus enhanced payment/ARC level payment when child is placed, plus allowances:

£75  (skills payment) per day

£34 (child allowance based on 11-15 yrs) per day

NEST Foster Carers (Intensive fostering)

£1,500 per week per child. In addition, child allowance according to child’s age

 

 

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