Jacqueline McShane has seen financial pressures grow during her 10 years as a foster carer.
First Minister Humza Yousaf has introduced plans for a minimum recommended allowance for foster carershas introduced plans for a minimum recommended allowance for foster carers, to be backdated to 1 April 2023.Ms McShane says it does not do nearly enough to make fostering more manageable.
Its director Jacqueline Cassidy welcomed the rise but said the rates do not match those they set out earlier this year as being the amount needed to raise children in care. Ms McShane says other carers she knows plan to leave fostering when their current placements end, even with this rise in allowances.The IWGB Foster Care Workers Union says the new allowances go nowhere near far enough to save a care system that has been on its knees for years.
In some cases, carers who have moved from independent providers back into local authority employment have retained increased allowances, creating disparity in how much money foster carers - and the children in their care - receive. Andy Elvin, CEO of independent fostering agency TACT, said the new minimum allowance was a positive move but it does not address the need for fees and allowances of foster carers in Scotland to rise further.
They said independent fostering agencies set their own allowances and fees, and many worked closely with local authorities.
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