Issue - meetings
Foster Carers Loans Policy
Meeting: 05/02/2019 - EXECUTIVE (Item 116)
116 Foster Carers Loan Scheme PDF 73 KB
This document defines the scheme for the provision of an interest-free loan to adoptive/fostering households, who wish to extend or convert their homes in order to offer a wider range or number of placements to CBC children in care.
Additional documents:
- Appendix A - Foster Carers Loans Scheme, item 116 PDF 150 KB
- Appendix A1 - Foster Carers Loan Scheme - Funding for Building Works Application, item 116 PDF 83 KB
- Appendix A2 - Foster Carers Loan Scheme - Examples of Need, item 116 PDF 94 KB
Decision:
That the Foster Carers Loan Scheme be approved.
Minutes:
The Executive considered a report from the Executive Member for Families, Education and Children setting out the scheme for the provision of an interest-free loan to adoptive/fostering households, who wished to extend or convert their homes in order to offer a wider range or number of placements to the children in care.
In response to questions, the Executive Member for Families, Education and Children confirmed that all the appropriate checks would be in place to ensure that the loan would be repaid back to the Council.
Reason for decision: To enable the Council to have a scheme to allow carers to access loans for extensions and adaptations to their homes to support the Council in looking after the children in care.
RESOLVED
that the Foster Carers Loan Scheme be approved.
The decision was unanimous.