Members' Allowances Scheme 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024
4. Child Care and Dependent Carers' Allowance
- (a) A child care and dependent carers' allowance of up to £8.71 per hour (or, in special cases, such larger sum as shall be certified as necessary and reasonable by the Corporate Director of Children, Education and Social Care) (actual expenditure), with a maximum monthly payment to a claimant of £400, will be payable to any Member of the Council who incurs child care and dependent carers' costs, for the duration of an approved duty, plus reasonable travelling time to and from that duty and carers' reasonable travelling expenses at Members' rates.
- (b) An approved duty will consist of any of the following:
- a meeting of the Cabinet
- a meeting of the Council
- a meeting of a committee of the Council
- a meeting of some other body to which the Council makes appointments or nominations, or
- a meeting of a committee or sub-committee of a body to which the Council makes appointments or nominations
- a meeting which has both been authorised by the Council or a committee of the Council or a joint committee of the Council and one or more other authorities, or a subcommittee of a joint committee and to which representatives of more than one political group have been invited
- a meeting of a local authority association of which the Council is a member
- duties undertaken on behalf of the Council in pursuance of any standing order requiring a Member or Members to be present while tender documents are opened
- duties undertaken on behalf of the Council in connection with the discharge of any function of the Council conferred by or under any enactment and empowering or requiring the Council to inspect or authorise the inspection of premises
- duties undertaken on behalf of the Council in connection with arrangements made by the Council for the attendance of pupils at a school approved for the purposes of section 342 of the Education Act 1996
- any other duty approved by the Council in connection with discharging the duties of the Council or its committees
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