Tax and other types of caring

Staying put carers

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.
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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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.

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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.

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Special guardianship order (SGO)

If a carer received income for a placement that is placed under an SGO, the income is not taxable and should not be entered on a tax return.

Adopted Children

Adoption allowances are non-taxable and do not need to be declared on a tax return form.

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