Annual fees for children’s social care
services
Establishment
Children’s home
Residential family
centre
Boarding school
Residential
college
Residential special
school
Annual fees from 1 April 2015
Children’s home with 3 or fewer places
£1,761 flat fee
Children’s home with 4 to 34 places
£1,761 flat fee, plus £176 for
each place 4 to 33 inclusive
Children’s homes with 34 or more
places
£7039.00 flat fee
Residential family centre with 3 or
fewer places
£1,173 flat fee
Residential family centre with 4 places
£1,320 flat fee
Residential family centre with 5 or
more places
£1,377 flat fee
Boarding school with 3 or fewer places
£765 flat fee
Boarding school with 4 to 12 places
£765 flat fee, plus £46 for
each place 4 to 12 inclusive
Boarding school with 13 to 50 places
£1,203 flat fee
Boarding school with 51 to 500 places
£1,683 flat fee
Boarding school Over 500 places
£2021 flat fee
Residential college with 3 or fewer
places
£765 flat fee
Residential college with 4 to 11 places
£765 flat fee, plus £46 for
each place 4 to 11 inclusive
Residential college with 12 or more
places
£1,173 flat fee
Residential special school with 3 or
fewer places
£1,408 flat fee
Establishment
Annual fees from 1 April 2015
Residential special school with 4 to 18
places
£1,408 flat fee, plus £140 for
each place 4 to 18 inclusive
Residential special school with 19 or
more places
£3,508 flat fee
Agency or
service
Annual fees from 1 April 2015
Independent
fostering agency
£1,933
Adoption support
agency
Adoption support agency
£1,157
Small adoption support agency
£612
Voluntary adoption agency
£,1153 for the principal office,
plus £1,153 for each branch
and £612 for each small
branch
Voluntary adoption agency with a
small principal office
£612 for the principal office,
plus £1153, for each branch,
plus £612 for each small
branch
Voluntary
adoption agency
Local authority
adoption service
£1,406
Local authority
fostering service
£1,2197
Agency or
service
Annual fees from 1 August 2015
Residential holiday
schemes for
disabled children
Annual Fee
£2,259
The annual fees are set out in The Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education,
Children’s Services and Skills (Fees and Frequency of Inspections) (Children’s Homes
etc.) Regulations 2015.1
The 2015 amendments are reflected in the above table with grey shading.
1
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/551/made
2
Annual fees for children’s social care services