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If you are caring for a young person under a Staying Put arrangement, you use Qualifying Care Relief (QRC). You can add £485 (2024/2025) £495 (2025/2026) per young person per week/part week to your QCR threshold.
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You can only get one amount of 19,360 (2024-2025), £19690 (2025-2026), it is not per type of arrangement. Foster carers who also provide a staying put will thus receive one amount.
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This QCR tax arrangement only applies to the money received from the local authority for fostering and Staying-Put. Money received as a commercial rent is separately taxable – although the Rent a Room Scheme provides some relief. This lets you earn up to £7,500 per year tax-free from letting out furnished accommodation in your home. See https://www.gov.uk/rent-room-in-your-home/the-rent-a-room-scheme
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Staying put carers
Parent and child arrangements
- If you have a parent and child arrangement, the parent and/or the child may be a ‘child in care’.
- QCR covers all scenarios involved in parent and child arrangements and allows a foster carer to include the additional amount for both parent and child.
Supported lodgings
- Supported Lodgings can use QCR. You can add £450 (2023- 24) per young person per week to your tax threshold.
- You only get one amount of £18,140 per household (2023-24), it is not per type of arrangement.
- If you are fostering and also providing Supported Lodgings, you only get one amount of £18,140.
