Foster carer fees and allowances

You'll get paid fees and allowances every two weeks while you are providing a short-term or long-term foster care placement.

Your payment will usually include basic maintenance allowance, placement fees, and holiday allowance.

You may also get:

• Birthday allowance
• Christmas or religious festival allowance

There are different fees and allowances for these other types of fostering:

• Enhanced foster care
• Parent and child foster care
• Respite foster care
• Short breaks foster care
• Connected care
• Emergency foster care
• PACE bed foster care
• New Roads foster care
• Staying put arrangements