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Children's Handbook Scotland

Last updated: 13 October 2026

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Author and acknowledgements
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How to use this Handbook
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- Structure of the Handbook
Abbreviations
Means-tested benefit rates 2026/27
Non-means-tested benefit rates 2026/27
Chapter 1: Benefits
Chapter 2: Claims, decisions and challenges
Chapter 3: Children in hospital
Chapter 4: Disabled children in care homes
Chapter 5: Disabled children at residential school
Chapter 6: Children who are looked after and accommodated
- 1. Benefits for children who are looked after and accommodated
- 2. When your child comes home
Chapter 7: Children living with kinship carers
Chapter 8: Children living with foster carers
- 1. What is foster care
  - Public fostering
  - Private fostering
- 2. Benefits for foster carers
Chapter 9: Adoption
Chapter 10: Young people leaving care
Appendix: Abbreviations used in the notes
- Acts of Parliament
  - Regulations
  - Other abbreviations

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Children's Handbook Scotland 2026/27
Chapter 1: Benefits

1. Introduction

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