PART VIIIFOSTERING AND KINSHIP CARE ALLOWANCES

Fostering and kinship care allowances33

1

A local authority shall, subject to such conditions as they consider necessary, pay such allowance, as they see fit to–

a

a foster carer or a kinship carer with whom a child has been placed in accordance with these Regulations;

b

where a child is required by virtue of F1a compulsory supervision order to reside with a person other than their parent, the person with whom the child is directed to reside; and

c

any person in whom parental responsibilities and parental rights are vested by virtue of the making of a permanence order with whom a child who is the subject of that order is residing.

2

Any allowance payable in terms of paragraph (1) may–

a

be–

i

a fixed allowance applicable in the case of all children for whom the local authority have responsibility by virtue of section 17 of the 1995 Act;

ii

a rate applicable to certain categories of case; or

iii

amounts relevant to the individual needs of a particular child; and

b

take into account the needs and circumstances of the person with whom the child is placed.