In Ontario how much does a foster parent get per child ?

Question

In Ontario how much does a foster parent get per child ?

Answer 1

"Foster Care Rates (only applicable to child welfare)

Under the child welfare funding framework announced in 1999, the Ministry established a new minimum daily rate ($25.71) for foster care providers. This revised daily rate structure included a higher base rate than the previously-established minimum. The basic minimum rate covers food and lodging for a child. It does not include extra costs of clothing, spending allowances and other specialized services that may be needed by children in foster care - which may be provided by the agencies at their discretion."

Answer 2

If you have to ask, your going into foster care for all the wrong reasons.

The first poster doesnt quite have it right. $25 per day... is for an infant. A toddler is $18, a adolescent is $16 a teen is $14.

You receive a whopping $50 twice a year for clothing allowence.

Birthdays up to the age of 16 are $50. After that $0.

Allowences are given out according to age as well. An adolenscent is given $1.25 per week. A teen $4/ week

Altogether, your looking at $5260 to feed, clothe, & shelter a teen per year. Most teens I know eat more than that per year.

Notice nothing was mentioned about easter or Christmas & their costs? Your on your own if you'd like your foster child to celebrate those "extras".

These are the rates in the Kawartha Children's Aid Society located in Lindsay & Peterborough regions of Ontario.

Answer 3

I don't know where the first answer got 25.71 per day, but I only get 220 per month, but I also don't live in Ontario...I live in the Midwest.