Posted 30 August 2023
Foster and kinship carers play a valuable role in providing stable and nurturing homes for children and young people, and it is important that they are financially supported to do so. The new SRA means that for the first time foster and kinship carers across Scotland will receive a set rate, which all local authorities must pay, to support them in caring for the children and young people they look after. This is being funded by an additional £16 million from the Scottish Government, and we estimate that it will benefit more than 9,000 children. Payments will be backdated to 1 April 2023.
Where local authorities are already paying above the SRA this will continue, so that no kinship or foster carers
currently in receipt of the allowance will be worse off.
The weekly allowances, which will be backdated to 1 April 2023, are:
0 to 4 year-olds: £168.31
5 to 10 year-olds: £195.81
11 to 15 year-olds: £195.81
16-years-old and over: £268.41
Scottish Recommended Allowance for foster and kinship carers | Scottish Parliament Website
