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BRIGHTER FUTURES FOSTER CARE LTD

What councils in England published about payments to this supplier. Every figure below is a lower bound and is written as one.

What is held for this supplier

At least £5,808,083 across 21 councils since 2019/20

This is a lower bound, not a total. It adds up only the councils and financial years listed under what contributed, and inside those only the payments each council chose to publish above its own publication threshold. Every council outside that list has paid this supplier an amount nobody has added up. So the figure is written "at least".

Canonical id
brighter-futures-foster-care
Councils that published a payment
21
Payments published
1,263
Latest year held
2026/27

What each council published, by year

At least this much, per council per financial year. Each figure is what that council published and nothing else.
Council2019/202020/212021/222022/232023/242024/252025/262026/27All years heldPayments
Bracknell Forestn/an/an/an/an/a£20k£12kn/a£32k10
Cambridgeshiren/an/an/an/an/a£22kn/an/a£22k6
Central Bedfordshiren/an/an/an/an/a£65k£16k£15k£96k19
Ealingn/a£8,628£22k£96k£16k£20kn/an/a£161k40
Enfieldn/an/an/an/an/a£127k£122kn/a£249k71
Essex£467k£416k£445k£308k£383k£353k£304kn/a£2.7m87
Hammersmith & Fulhamn/an/an/an/an/a£23kn/an/a£23k8
Hampshiren/an/an/an/an/a£252k£253kn/a£505k446
Hertfordshiren/an/an/an/an/a£151k£196k£38k£386k104
Kentn/an/an/an/an/a£70k£77k£18k£165k29
Lincolnshiren/an/an/an/a£29kn/an/an/a£29k5
Medway Townsn/an/an/an/an/an/a£71kn/a£71k11
Milton Keynesn/an/an/an/an/a£12k£51k£7,785£71k18
Newhamn/an/an/an/an/a£79k£37kn/a£116k132
North East Lincolnshiren/an/a£14k£54k£54k£61k£63k£5,319£251k50
Oxfordshiren/an/an/an/a£21k£84kn/an/a£106k30
Southamptonn/an/an/an/an/a£100k£61k£13k£174k31
Staffordshiren/an/an/an/an/an/a£29k£15k£44k9
Surreyn/an/an/an/an/a£167k£178kn/a£345k83
Suttonn/an/an/an/an/a£89k£71kn/a£160k44
Thurrockn/an/an/an/a£75k£52k£570n/a£128k30

These councils are not comparable with one another. They hold different numbers of years, publish above different thresholds and buy different things, so a larger figure here means more was published and read, not that one council spent more freely than another. An empty cell is a year not held, never a year of nothing.

The largest payments published

The largest single payments to this supplier in the files held, each as the council published it.
CouncilDateAmountDescription
Essex11 Nov 2024£80,797EXTERNAL FOSTERING
Essex18 Dec 2019£77,377EXTERNAL FOSTERING
Essex21 May 2020£68,530EXTERNAL FOSTERING
Essex16 May 2023£61,078EXTERNAL FOSTERING
Essex13 Mar 2023£57,096EXTERNAL FOSTERING
Essex18 Mar 2022£48,960EXTERNAL FOSTERING
Essex20 Sept 2022£43,641EXTERNAL FOSTERING
Essex1 May 2019£40,642EXTERNAL FOSTERING
Essex22 Oct 2020£39,577EXTERNAL FOSTERING
Essex23 Jun 2025£38,752EXTERNAL FOSTERING
Essex9 Aug 2022£38,108EXTERNAL FOSTERING
Essex25 Mar 2020£37,975EXTERNAL FOSTERING
Essex21 Feb 2022£36,412EXTERNAL FOSTERING
Essex23 Jul 2020£34,827EXTERNAL FOSTERING
Essex20 Aug 2020£34,827EXTERNAL FOSTERING
Essex23 Dec 2020£34,827EXTERNAL FOSTERING
Essex6 Feb 2021£34,827EXTERNAL FOSTERING
Essex20 Mar 2021£34,827EXTERNAL FOSTERING
Essex24 May 2021£34,827EXTERNAL FOSTERING
Essex26 Jul 2021£34,827EXTERNAL FOSTERING

A description is the council's own wording on the row. A large single payment is often a scheduled settlement of many smaller invoices, and this site does not know which of these are.

Which councils and years contributed

Covers 21 councils and 8 financial years in the AI DOGE corpus. Councils and years not listed have not been ingested and are not zero.

Financial years held: 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27.

Councils that contributed: Bracknell Forest, Cambridgeshire, Central Bedfordshire, Ealing, Enfield, Essex, Hammersmith & Fulham, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Medway Towns, Milton Keynes, Newham, North East Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, Southampton, Staffordshire, Surrey, Sutton, Thurrock.

A council that is not on this list has not been ingested for this supplier. That is a statement about this site's holdings and not about the council, and it is never a zero.

The council pages behind these figures

Every figure above was read off one council's own published payment file. Each council page carries what is held for it, when its files were last read, and its own publication threshold.

How this page was built

A supplier gets a page of its own when ten or more councils published a payment to it, or when at least £10m was published to it in a single financial year. That cut is a size, not a judgement, and it is applied the same way to every supplier.

Names are matched across councils by a canonical form of the supplier string each council published. Two councils spelling the same company differently are joined; a company and its subsidiary are not, unless the councils wrote the same name. Payments a council withheld are counted in that council's own totals and are on no page as a name. A Companies House number, where one is shown, comes from this site's own name match and plays no part in joining councils' payments together.

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