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Decision Report 202001911

Case ref:

202001911
Date:

September 2021
Body:

Dumfries and Galloway Council
Sector:

Local Government
Outcome:

Resolved, no recommendations
Subject:

Kinship care

Summary

C, a support and advocacy worker, complained on behalf of their client (A) about the failure by the council to carry out a kinship care assessment. This failure meant A had not been provided with interim payments whilst a child (B) resided with them. B was the subject of a compulsory supervision order (CSO), which required them to live at A's property. The council said they considered the arrangement to be a private one between A and B's family and they did not believe a CSO was necessary or appropriate. The council added that B no longer resided with A.

Following our enquiries, the council offered to make a payment to A for the period between the making of the CSO and B moving out. C confirmed this was acceptable to A and would resolve the complaint.