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Kinship carers want to be able to go to somebody and ask, “How do I get extra support at school? My young person is struggling and they are having difficulties, and I do not understand what that is about.”
The 223 instruments considered last year was lower than average and, as last year's report discussed, may have been related to the volume of EU Exit instruments that year and extra requirements for instruments under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.
Our innovative schemes have been very much about levering in extra funding, but we are also aware that the industry and the housing sector have asked for action on things that they see as blocking the delivery of housing.
In circumstances where the complaint involves somebody with profound additional support needs, it may be more appropriate to take that extra time. Ultimately, it is a matter of judgment.
Then we would need to repay that money. If there were three years of extra spend of £600 million, we would need to start paying that back in year 4 because it needs to be repaid within three to five years.
As a result, projects get designed around putting in extra nurses to help loads of people, because it is meant to save so much money, but they run for only six months, after which there is an evaluation.
However, a financial strategy is not a nice extra to have; it is something that is critical to ensuring that policing remains financially sustainable in the future.
A change in the UK rate would have a similar extra administrative cost, because we would have to change people’s PAYE codes, and they would be more likely to phone us up to ask what was going on.