2. Financial help from the local authority

Many, but not all, kinship carers get regular payments from the local authority. If a kinship carer receives payments from the local authority, these are likely to be made under either section 22 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (Section 22 payments), section 50 of the Children Act 1975 (Section 50 payments) or regulation 33 of the Looked After Children (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (sometimes referred to as section 110 of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007).

There is no national set minimum rate of kinship care payment and there is considerable variation in the level of payments made by local authorities to kinship carers.