1. What is foster care

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‘Fostering’ is where a child or young person is being cared for in a family home with carers who do not have parental responsibility for her/him. There are two different types of fostering:

•public fostering; and

•private fostering.

The difference depends on who makes the arrangement for the child to live with foster carers.

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Children's Handbook Scotland 2020/21

The Children’s Handbook Scotland provides a complete guide to benefits and tax credits where children are living away from their parents, including children in kinship or foster care, children looked after by the local authority, and children at residential school, in residential care or in hospital.

It covers entitlement when children are living away from home, how local authority payments affect carers’ benefits and tax credits, and how to challenge decisions. Fully referenced to legislation and caselaw, and with easy-to-use checklists and examples, this latest edition remains an essential guide for anyone working with families and children in Scotland.

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Print publication date Sep, 2020

This content was last updated:2021-06-04

Print ISBN 9781910715642

Word count71,518

Subject TagsCPAG titlesScotland

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