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Planned approximate weekly expenditure £ per child - Adoption
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- This includes adoption allowances for paid and other staff, overhead costs associated with adoption (including the costs of social workers seeking new / supporting existing adoptive parents) and costs related to adoption support (e.g. cost of therapeutic services).
NOTE: Adoption support services are defined as: Financial support; Services to enable groups of adoptive children, adoptive and natural parents or former guardians of an adoptive child to discuss matters relating to adoption; Assistance, including mediation services, in relation to contact between an adoptive child and a natural parent, natural sibling, former guardian or a related person; Therapeutic services for the adoptive child; Assistance to ensure the relation between an adopted child and his or her adoptive parents continue, (includes training for adoptive parents to meet any special needs of the child); Respite care; Assistance before and after the adoption order, where the placement/arrangement is in danger of disrupting; Counselling, advice and information.
Calculation: (x/y)/365 * 7 where
x = Total planned expenditure on Adoption Services
y = Total number of children freed for adoption or with a placement order as at 31 March (figures under 6 are subject to suppression)
Result is rounded to nearest £5.
- Modified
- 03 Apr 2020
- Data last updated
- 09 May 2016
- Short label
- Planned approximate weekly expenditure £ per child - Adoption
- Status
- Discontinued
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- not applicable
- Measure
- GBP per week per child
- Dataset
- Children and young people spend (weekly expenditure)
- Collection
- LAIT: Children's Service Finance
- Source
- Department for Education
- is found in the following lists
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