Foster Care Cost of Living on BBC Breakfast News - FosterTalk
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Жыл бұрынFoster Care Cost of Living - Headline Story on BBC News 13/11/22
Foster carer Jakki Willby and FosterTalk's Rachel Cole feature on BBC breakfast to highlight the cost of living crisis for Foster Carers across the U.K.
In our cost of living report, we shared the voices of over 4,300 foster carers, and we will continue to push for urgent change to save the future of foster care.
Visit fostertalk.org/voicesoffoster... to read our report in full
@MrTelboy1962 Жыл бұрын
There is a very similar situation regarding Shared Lives Carers. Shared Lives Carers provide homes and support for adults with physical and or learning difficulties, I and many of my colleagues have not seen any meaningful pay increases for years. One way that the government could perhaps help both Foster Carers and Shared Lives Carers is to increase the Tax allowances which have not changed in about 20 years. So while the tax incentives would have been attractive to carers in the early 2000's many cares now find themselves facing tax bills in the hundreds if not thousands, increasing the thresholds may see the exchequer experiencing a small decrease in tax revenue but would save the Government and Local Authorities having to find millions in order to furnish pay rises. Though this is not a perfect fix, it would at least provide a boost in revenue for most carers providing support for 2 or more people. The rent and housekeeping paid by 'Scheme users' is also controlled by local Authorities and we are not permitted to increase those rates no mater how much the cost of living rises. Our particular scheme was given permission about 3 years ago to increase housekeeping by 15p a week!
@fostertalk5972 Жыл бұрын
Hi, yes we agree. One of our recommendations in our report and our government petition is to review the tax allowances for carers as it hasn't changed for many years.
@samanthadunlop279 Жыл бұрын
It’s not just the weekly allowance given to foster carers that needs to be addressed, it’s that it needs reframing as an actual job- which it is. I am 35 and have been a foster carer for over 6 years, is there a pension with it, no. A Teaching Assistant gets paid more than me per day, and they have the added bonus of school holidays and weekends!
@beckypmp7169 4 ай бұрын
Foster carers get a fee for themselves and a child allowance for the child - this only showed you the allowance per child NOT the fostering fee too. Fees and allowances are paid weekly to carers
@Uglybettyrules 4 ай бұрын
They only get a fee for themselves if they’re fostering for an agency. No fee is given to those who foster for the council, like most foster carers, including the woman in their report 🙂
@beckypmp7169 4 ай бұрын
@@Uglybettyrules That is totally not true ......... even LA foster carers get a fee for themselves. This information regarding child element and fostering fee is public knowledge if you look on the council website. Foster carers do not do this without payment.
@paulastarkey9973 Жыл бұрын
Shame on the government.
@nikolibolokov4521 Жыл бұрын
We're just plebs to them.
@trevorjohnson672 Жыл бұрын
Me & my wife are certified foster careers we also have 2 FCs the government should look at the tax threshold limits for Foster Careers this has never been adjusted for nearly 2 decades. It’s shameful. To recruit new foster careers needs a complete overall.
@farahnoor2726 Жыл бұрын
Omg what a awful. Allowance norwander the carers are giving up
@julianlane1697 Жыл бұрын
Support natural relatives to get access to their kids . They do iit fo love not money. Social workers stf kidnapping .!!
@elainereilly1853 Жыл бұрын
That’s more than enough😳
@thenakedchefsdk8873 Жыл бұрын
No it's not! The local Authority gets £1000 per child in London the Foster carer does all the work and and doesn't even get half of that weekly payment!
@trevorjohnson672 Жыл бұрын
So true.
@farahnoor2726 Жыл бұрын
Definitely not enough with the living crisis these Foster parent look after thses children 24/7 hats off to them amazing work they are doing.
@flowers6869 Жыл бұрын
No not if that's your so called wage it no where near covers everything, I am a carer and this is not a wage
@flowers6869 Жыл бұрын
I have struggled to get money for equipment I need and have had to fork out for items like pushchairs and cots etc myself, that's a huge chunk of money gone from what very little we get
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