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IDEAL FOSTERING

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 £13,369,959 across 15 councils since 2016/17

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
ideal-fostering
Councils that published a payment
15
Payments published
4,454
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.
Council2016/172020/212021/222022/232023/242024/252025/262026/27All years heldPayments
Bradford Counciln/an/an/a£37kn/an/an/an/a£37k9
Coventry City Counciln/an/an/an/an/a£311k£169kn/a£480k109
Derby Cityn/an/an/an/an/a£38kn/an/a£38k13
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Counciln/an/an/an/an/a£182k£187kn/a£368k102
Gatesheadn/an/an/an/an/an/a£34kn/a£34k7
Newcastle City Counciln/an/an/a£43k£25k£25k£21kn/a£115k51
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Counciln/a£427k£653k£835k£695k£870k£692k£54k£4.2m2,030
Staffordshiren/an/an/an/an/an/a£487k£256k£743k135
Stoke-on-Trentn/an/an/an/an/a£206k£193kn/a£399k26
Telford & the Wrekinn/an/an/an/an/a-£1,008£214n/a-£7942
Walsalln/an/a£1.0m£760k£820k£959k£992kn/a£4.5m1,420
Warwickshire£33k£75k£336k£327k£304k£376k£369kn/a£1.8m487
Wigan Counciln/an/an/an/an/a£8,446n/an/a£8,4462
Worcestershiren/an/an/an/an/a£233k£125k£98k£457k42
Yorkn/an/an/an/an/a£26k£70k£8,627£104k19

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
Worcestershire2 Apr 2026£33,862External Placements
Worcestershire5 Jun 2026£32,612External Placements
Worcestershire11 May 2026£31,818External Placements
Staffordshire19 Jun 2026£26,597Social Services Oth Local Auth
Stoke-on-Trent27 Jun 2025£21,105n/a
Stoke-on-Trent4 Jul 2025£21,105n/a
Stoke-on-Trent30 May 2025£21,064n/a
Worcestershire6 Feb 2025£20,898UASC 16/17
Stoke-on-Trent19 Feb 2025£20,057n/a
Stoke-on-Trent26 Mar 2025£19,983n/a
Stoke-on-Trent23 Apr 2025£19,983n/a
Stoke-on-Trent4 Dec 2024£19,763n/a
Stoke-on-Trent20 Dec 2024£19,763n/a
Stoke-on-Trent6 Nov 2024£19,763n/a
Stoke-on-Trent29 Jan 2025£19,763n/a
Walsall5 Sept 2023£18,4096223-Independent Foster Care-Oth Agency Provision
Worcestershire7 Aug 2025£17,737External Placements
Walsall5 Sept 2023£17,7276223-Independent Foster Care-Oth Agency Provision
Stoke-on-Trent5 Apr 2024£17,405n/a
Stoke-on-Trent8 Sept 2025£17,328n/a

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 15 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: 2016/17, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27.

Councils that contributed: Bradford Council, Coventry City Council, Derby City, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, Gateshead, Newcastle City Council, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Telford & the Wrekin, Walsall, Warwickshire, Wigan Council, Worcestershire, York.

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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