Our Financial Calculator

We want to build a community of professional and highly skilled foster parents, so that every child has the best chance of achieving their full potential.

Welcome to the ACS Financial Calculator. Our foster parents are recognised for the hard work and dedication they give to the children in their care. We pay a generous fostering allowance that reflects your professional role in our team.

How many children are you caring for / do you plan on caring for?

1 2 3

What is the age range of these children?

0-4 5-10 11-17

Happy with your final answers?

Don’t worry, you will be able to go back and change these afterwards to see how your results could change

Most of our foster parents foster more than one than one teenager, which means the average fostering allowance our foster parents receive is £44,799 per year, tax free for children over 11 years.

What does the fostering allowance cover?

The allowance is first and foremost to ensure you can care for a child and cover all of their expenses including food, clothing, actives, bills and transport. But the allowance also rewards you for your hard work.

And that’s not all, HMRC also reward foster parents too, so many foster parents pay little or no tax at all.

Find out more

Fostering and your finances. Find out more…

Tax & National Insurance

Find out how foster parents pay very low levels of tax, if any at all due to generous allowance provided by HMRC.

Fostering & claiming benefits

Fostering doesn’t affect means tested benefits as your fostering allowance isn’t classed as income in the same way as other work.

Want to know more?

Find out the answers here.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are you ready to take your first step to becoming a foster parent?

Whether you’re ready to start your journey or just want to chat to an expert, we’re here to talk.

Enquiry

You are required to have a spare bedroom that’s always available to a foster child. The spare room cannot be shared, and must be big enough to fit a single bed, a wardrobe and a chest of drawers.

Do you have a spare room?*

To be approved as a foster carer in the UK, you must be a British citizen or have the legal right to remain in the UK without restrictions that would prevent fostering.

Which of the following applies to you?*

How can we help you with your enquiry?*

The following questions are intended to help us understand your experience with children. Please note that prior experience is not required to become a foster carer, as full training will be provided.

Have you had children of your own?*

Do you have professional experience of working with children?*

Have you had any prior experience of fostering, such as being a foster parent or growing up in a fostering family?*

Have you ever adopted a child?*

Are you happy to receive regular fostering news from us?*

Yes

No

First Name*

Last Name*

Phone Number*

Email Address*

Postcode*