23 September 2022
by DK
How Much Is Kinship Fostering Allowance?
You deserve fostering allowance even when you are offering kinship fostering. Do you know how much you are eligible to get? We will share information about the kinship fostering allowance here.
What is kinship fostering?
Kinship fostering is an out-of-home arrangement to care for a child with whom you are related. You could be the uncle, aunty, grandfather, grandmother, or any distant relative of the child.
Kinship fostering is eligible for fostering allowance just like any other type of fostering. So, how much will you receive as a weekly allowance when taking care of a child with whom you are related?

Financial assistance as a kinship foster carer
The UK doesn’t have an exact figure that kinship foster carers are given as allowance. Instead, there are recommendations of what fostering agencies should use as guidelines to pay foster carers.
However, according to the government website, the minimum allowance is about £137 and £240 per week. Please contact us if you want to know the exact amount that you will get as a kinship foster carer.
When deciding on how much we will award as an allowance, we follow the government’s guidelines, which stipulate that we consider your location, the child’s age, the needs of the child, your fostering experience, and any other relevant factor that we may consider important.
Are there other benefits?
Any other benefit that you enjoy is similar to benefits enjoyed by other types of foster carers. You can also enjoy tax benefits if you qualify. You can find information about tax benefits for foster carers here.
How do I get started?
If you have an arrangement with any of your relatives to care for their birth child, you can contact us to formalise your fostering arrangements. Making it formal will help you qualify to receive the weekly fostering allowance to care for the foster child as expected.
