THE FOSTERING TEAM
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 £2,362,535 across 14 councils since 2023/24
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
- the-fostering-team
- Councils that published a payment
- 14
- Payments published
- 669
- Latest year held
- 2025/26
What each council published, by year
| Council | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | 2025/26 | All years held | Payments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackburn with Darwen | £26k | n/a | n/a | £26k | 8 |
| Blackpool | n/a | £40k | £37k | £78k | 17 |
| Bolton | n/a | £4,598 | n/a | £4,598 | 2 |
| Bury | n/a | £209k | £66k | £274k | 54 |
| Halton | n/a | £89k | £27k | £116k | 18 |
| Lancashire | n/a | £48k | £24k | £71k | 14 |
| Leeds | n/a | £206k | n/a | £206k | 45 |
| Rochdale | £89k | £293k | £128k | £511k | 136 |
| Salford | n/a | £86k | £59k | £145k | 22 |
| St Helens | n/a | n/a | £38k | £38k | 5 |
| Stockport | n/a | £238k | £227k | £465k | 254 |
| Warrington | n/a | £186k | £59k | £245k | 64 |
| Westmorland and Furness | n/a | £8,078 | n/a | £8,078 | 1 |
| Wigan Council | n/a | £96k | £79k | £175k | 29 |
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
| Council | Date | Amount | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salford | 2 Apr 2024 | £9,654 | Payments to Agencies |
| Wigan Council | 10 Feb 2026 | £8,844 | n/a |
| Lancashire | 7 Nov 2024 | £8,765 | n/a |
| Wigan Council | 25 Jul 2024 | £8,765 | n/a |
| Wigan Council | 19 Aug 2024 | £8,765 | n/a |
| Westmorland and Furness | 8 Apr 2024 | £8,078 | INDEPENDENT FOSTER PLACEMENTS |
| Bury | 1 Aug 2024 | £8,078 | n/a |
| Lancashire | 23 Dec 2024 | £7,965 | n/a |
| Bury | 9 Jul 2024 | £7,817 | n/a |
| Lancashire | 21 Jul 2025 | £7,722 | n/a |
| St Helens | 4 Jun 2025 | £7,692 | Other Agencies/Contractors |
| St Helens | 1 Aug 2025 | £7,692 | Other Agencies/Contractors |
| Wigan Council | 13 Jun 2025 | £7,688 | n/a |
| Wigan Council | 11 Sept 2025 | £7,688 | n/a |
| Lancashire | 28 Apr 2025 | £7,541 | n/a |
| St Helens | 1 Apr 2025 | £7,541 | Other Agencies/Contractors |
| Wigan Council | 26 Feb 2025 | £7,541 | n/a |
| Wigan Council | 28 Apr 2025 | £7,541 | n/a |
| St Helens | 1 May 2025 | £7,444 | Other Agencies/Contractors |
| St Helens | 2 Jul 2025 | £7,444 | Other Agencies/Contractors |
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 14 councils and 3 financial years in the AI DOGE corpus. Councils and years not listed have not been ingested and are not zero.
Financial years held: 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26.
Councils that contributed: Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Bolton, Bury, Halton, Lancashire, Leeds, Rochdale, Salford, St Helens, Stockport, Warrington, Westmorland and Furness, Wigan Council.
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.
- Blackburn with Darwen spending
- Blackpool spending
- Bolton spending
- Bury spending
- Halton spending
- Lancashire spending
- Leeds spending
- Rochdale spending
- Salford spending
- St Helens spending
- Stockport spending
- Warrington spending
- Westmorland and Furness spending
- Wigan Council spending
- Every public body on this site
- Money moving between public bodies
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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