Decision details

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the following:

(i)        A new Payment for Skills Levels scheme (3.1)

(ii)       With effect from 1st April 2021 a 1.5% increase in the level of:

·       Fostering Allowance (3.2)

·       Adoption Allowance (3.3)

·       Kinship Allowance (3.4)

·       Supporting Lodgings Allowance (3.5)

(iii)      An increase in the level of fee charged for Inter-Country Adoptions (3.6);

(iv)      An increase in the fee paid to Independent Chairs of Adoption and Permanence/Fostering Panels (3.7); and

(v)       With effect from 1st April 2021 a 1% increase in the fees paid to Curators-ad-litem/Reporting Officers (3.8)