§ Mr. Charles Irvingasked the Secretary of State for Social Services which local authorities run family placement or professional fostering schemes for difficult and delinquent teenagers; what is the fee, salary or boarding-out allowance paid to foster parents in each scheme; and how many foster parents are involved in each scheme.
§ Sir George YoungThis information is not held centrally and could not be obtained without disproportionate expenditure of time and resources. In April the National Foster Care Association published a document entitled "Foster Care: Recommendations on Allowances, Recent Statistics, Financial Information" 491W which gives information about foster care generally including (on pages 33 and 34) examples of fees, salaries or boarding-out allowances paid under 31 special placement schemes. I am arranging for a copy to be placed in the Library of the House.