Recruiting foster carers - Find a freedom of information request

Request

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

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