Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 111677
Foster Care: Allowances
Tabled: 9 February 2026
Answered: 16 February 2026
Question
Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance she has issued to (a) Health and Social Care Trusts and (b) fostering service providers on the treatment of foster care allowances in the assessment of Universal Credit; and what steps she is taki
Answer
Josh MacAlisterFostering is a devolved issue. Guidance to Health and Social Care Trusts is a matter for the devolved Northern Irish government.The department funds Fosterline, which provides guidance on Universal Credit to fostering services and to prospective and curre...
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