16. Payments for children
The following payments for children or young people in your care are disregarded:
■adoption allowances, child arrangements order allowances and special guardianship payments;
■fostering allowances (for official arrangements only, including allowances paid to carers approved by independent agencies ( ));
■kinship care assistance payments (Scotland);
■discretionary payments from social care departments to help children in need or to provide help to young care leavers; and
■any direct payment towards a personal budget made under an education, health and care plan.
, paras 25, 26, 27A, 28, 28A & 66