Issue - decisions

Supporting the Recruitment and Retention of Foster Carers through Council Tax Rebate

29/03/2018 - Foster Carer Benefits and Entitlements: Exemption of Council Tax

That:

 

1)         the proposal for Council tax exemptionor payment equivalent to council tax for those living outside the Borough for Wokingham in-house foster carers as part of a retention and recruitment strategy to obtain sufficient in house foster carers for the children of Wokingham be approved;

 

2)         the Council Tax Section 13A Policy be amended to include this proposal;

 

3)         it be noted that the costs of this proposal are planned to be funded from the savings generated from transferring higher cost IFA carers to lower cost in-house carers.