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LOTUS 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 £3,895,000 across 35 councils since 2022/23

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
lotus-foster-care
Councils that published a payment
35
Payments published
1,709
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.
Council2022/232023/242024/252025/262026/27All years heldPayments
Barnetn/an/an/a£41k£15k£56k30
Bath & North East Somersetn/a£29k£24kn/an/a£53k16
Bexleyn/an/a£11k£92k£49k£152k52
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poolen/an/a£16k£77k£22k£115k102
Bracknell Forestn/an/a£11kn/an/a£11k3
Brentn/an/a£43k£51kn/a£95k29
Buckinghamshiren/an/a£6,960£35k£22k£64k22
Central Bedfordshiren/an/a£29k£49k£7,617£85k24
Cornwall Council£10k£39k£55k£49kn/a£153k43
Croydonn/a£3,418£125k£167k£69k£364k138
Ealing£43k£69k£60k£47kn/a£219k82
Enfieldn/an/a£40k£73kn/a£114k37
Essexn/a£10kn/an/an/a£10k2
Hammersmith & Fulhamn/an/a£23kn/an/a£23k7
Hampshiren/an/a£74k£55kn/a£130k161
Hertfordshiren/an/a£5,057n/an/a£5,0572
Isle of Wightn/an/a£94k£36k£11k£141k46
Kentn/an/a£98k£61kn/a£159k23
Lambethn/an/a£363k£194kn/a£557k161
Lewishamn/an/an/a£60k£31k£91k9
Milton Keynesn/an/a£63k£42k£11k£115k35
Newhamn/an/an/a£12k£7,160£19k21
Norfolkn/an/a£9,695£46k£11k£66k19
Oxfordshiren/an/a£56k£144k£61k£261k81
Plymouthn/an/a£86k£48k£13k£147k178
Portsmouthn/an/a£95k£23kn/a£118k228
Readingn/an/an/a£543n/a£5431
Somersetn/an/a£61k£31k£6,500£99k44
Southamptonn/an/a£87k£79k£20k£186k28
Southwarkn/an/a£49kn/an/a£49k14
Surreyn/an/a£67kn/an/a£67k21
Suttonn/an/a£42k£8,362n/a£50k17
Tower Hamletsn/an/a£27k£22kn/a£49k13
Wandsworthn/an/an/a£45kn/a£45k12
West Berkshiren/an/an/a£27kn/a£27k8

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
Lambeth24 May 2024£21,471FOSTERING AGENCY PLACEMENTS - PRIVATE CONTRACTORS PAYMENT
Lewisham17 Jun 2026£14,247PRIVATE & VOLUNTARY FOSTERING AGENCIES (IFA)
Lambeth24 May 2024£13,241FOSTERING AGENCY PLACEMENTS - PRIVATE CONTRACTORS PAYMENT
Ealing13 Oct 2025£13,020INDEPENDENT FOSTERING
Lambeth24 Jan 2025£12,654FOSTERING AGENCY PLACEMENTS - PRIVATE CONTRACTORS PAYMENT
Lewisham20 Feb 2026£11,559PRIVATE & VOLUNTARY FOSTERING AGENCIES (IFA)
Lewisham26 Jan 2026£11,559PRIVATE & VOLUNTARY FOSTERING AGENCIES (IFA)
Lewisham13 Apr 2026£11,559PRIVATE & VOLUNTARY FOSTERING AGENCIES (IFA)
Lewisham19 Dec 2025£11,186PRIVATE & VOLUNTARY FOSTERING AGENCIES (IFA)
Lewisham26 Mar 2026£10,440PRIVATE & VOLUNTARY FOSTERING AGENCIES (IFA)
Lambeth26 Aug 2025£10,074FOSTERING AGENCY PLACEMENTS - PRIVATE CONTRACTORS PAYMENT
Essex3 Jul 2023£9,310STRANDED PERSONS/ASYLUM SEEKER
Southampton9 Apr 2024£8,575n/a
Southampton8 Jan 2025£8,411n/a
Southampton9 Sept 2025£7,836n/a
Lambeth28 Jan 2026£7,779FOSTERING AGENCY PLACEMENTS - PRIVATE CONTRACTORS PAYMENT
Lewisham15 Apr 2025£7,706PRIVATE & VOLUNTARY FOSTERING AGENCIES (IFA)
Southampton11 Feb 2025£7,596n/a
Lewisham21 May 2025£7,457PRIVATE & VOLUNTARY FOSTERING AGENCIES (IFA)
Southampton11 Jun 2024£7,174n/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 35 councils and 5 financial years in the AI DOGE corpus. Councils and years not listed have not been ingested and are not zero.

Financial years held: 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27.

Councils that contributed: Barnet, Bath & North East Somerset, Bexley, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Bracknell Forest, Brent, Buckinghamshire, Central Bedfordshire, Cornwall Council, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Essex, Hammersmith & Fulham, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Lambeth, Lewisham, Milton Keynes, Newham, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Reading, Somerset, Southampton, Southwark, Surrey, Sutton, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth, West Berkshire.

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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