City of Wolverhampton Council told foster carer, Ms X, that she was not entitled to be reimbursed for the cost of driving three children in her care to schools at periods between April 2016 and April 2018.
She was instead told to use money from the children’s allowances, she told the ombudsman.
“Ms X says it left her with less to spend on the children and she needed to use her personal savings. Ms X considers both she and the children suffered because of this,” the LGO report states.
Between April 2016 and January 2017, Ms X drove two foster children, J aged seven and K aged nine, to and from their school 2.8 miles away from her home. The journeys totalled 56 miles a week, the report states.
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