# The Qualifying Care Relief (Specified Social Care Schemes) Order 2011, Article 5: Specified social care schemes for kinship care

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) A specified social care scheme in relation to kinship care must meet Conditions A to F.
(2) Condition A is that X has not yet attained 18 years of age.
(3) Condition B is that X is a looked after child.
(4) Condition C is that Y receives payment from L for providing kinship care to X.
(5) Condition D is that Y is—
(a) related to X either by blood, marriage or civil partnership, but is not a parent or step-parent of X, or
(b) known to X and with whom X has a pre-existing relationship.
(6) Condition E is that Y is regarded by L as a suitable person to care for X.
(7) Condition F is that, in relation to X, Y is not a person in respect of whom a court has made—
(a) a residence order, ...
(aa) (in relation to orders made in England and Wales) a child arrangements order that names Y as a person with whom X is to live, or
(b) a special guardianship order.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/712/article/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/qualifying-care-relief-specified-social-care-schemes-order-2011/article-5
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