Justice For Families

Requirement to pay for your child if the child snatchers steal the child....



2.40. A local authority which is looking after a child must consider whether or not to recover contributions towards the cost of the child's maintenance from a parent of the child or, when he is sixteen, the child
himself. The only exceptions to this are where a child is looked after under an interim care order, an emergency protection order (or any other provision of Part V) or certain other criminal provisions

(Schedule 2, paragraph 21). Contributions may only be recovered when the authority considers it reasonable to do so and not at all from a person who is in receipt of Income Support or Family Credit or while the child is allowed to live with a parent of his. (Schedule 2, paragraph 21(2)-(4)).

2.41. The procedure for recovery of contributions for services including accommodation has been simplified since the Child Care Act 1980. The local authority which wants to receive contributions must serve a contribution notice on the contributor, specifying a weekly sum not greater than that which the authority would be prepared to pay foster parents for looking after a similar child and which it is reasonable to expect the contributor to pay. The notice must also state the proposed arrangements for payment (Schedule 2, paragraph 22 ). If the contributor does not agree with the sum and arrangements
for payment (as specified in the notice or otherwise proposed by the authority), o r if he withdraw s his agreement, the authority may apply to court for a contribution order. This order may not specify a sum
greater than that which was in the contribution notice. If the contributor and the local authority agree the
terms of a new contribution notice, this will discharge an existing contribution order. Failing agreement,
a contribution order may be varied or discharged on the application of the contributor or the local
authority (Schedule 2, paragraph 23).



http://www.lbcma.org.uk/guidelines2.pdf

A local authority which is looking after a child must consider whether or not to recover contributions towards the cost of the child's maintenance from a parent of the child or, when he is sixteen, the child
himself

That is laughable, a child has to pay for being kidnapped & being separated from their own family.

I was asked to pay maintenance to the foster parents while my children were on an ICO.

Cavvy that truly is an insult. I hope you told them to foxtrot oscar.
Foster carers get paid quite well anyway and for the LA to ask for money off the parents for the foster carers is a disgrace.
I'm surprise it hasn't come up in our case yet - there is still time though

I was asked to pay an amount calculated by the LA to be the amount the CSA would require a non resident parent to pay. I was also billed for a hairdresser appointment at a top hairdresser for my 13year old daughter to have blonde highlights, £70. I said that even if I had ever agreed to the highlights, I wouldn't have taken her there and the social worker said ''she needs a treat after what she's been through''.
I paid because I didn't know otherwise, I assumed I had to.

And do the foster carers now pay you to have your children's hair done and do you get maintenance from the foster carers?
Thought not

In fairness to the foster carers, it was nothing to do with them.
When I got the records I found that the amount I paid was deducted from the foster care allowance paid by LA so it didn't give the carers more just meant the LA paid less.

My case was the opposite.the FC wouldnt accept any money,even when I wanted to treat him on a trip out.

She bought him enough clothes for 4 children and didnt use the clothes I had bought.I had to give some away as there were far too many clothes. She did that for all the children.

she even got his hair spiked and changed all his clothes. On the first contact. I was well upset as you dont want to feel that someone has taken over to that extent on the first week in care.totally changed your child.

She did not get much allowance and had an overdraft.

I didn't pay the foster carer directly. The LA billed me.

It is interesting that you said about having his hairstyle changed, within the first 2 weeks one of my daughters had her beautiful waist length hair cut short and the other had blonde streaks.
I wonder if it is the done thing to change the child's appearance.

A surestart worker says its not right to do that without asking the parents permission first. Sws didnt seem to care. Bitchy cows.Excuse my french.

I think its another of their tactics to make you feel redundant as a parent and that your child is now the property of the SS.

The kinship carers did that to us and got the child the most awful haircut I have seen.
I swear they do it simply because they can and to wind the parents up