TFC08100 | Responsible for a child: circumstances in which a person is not treated as responsible for a child – absent from household

Childcare Payments (Eligibility) Regulations 2015, regulation 4(2)

A person is not responsible for a child during any period when the child is continuously absent from the person’s household for a period exceeding or expected to exceed 6 months, is a prisoner, is in local authority care, or is placed for adoption by an adoption agency in the home of a person proposing to adopt the child. Please see regulation 4(5) of the Childcare Payments (Eligibility) Regulations 2015 for the meaning of “adoption agency”, “looked after by a local authority” and “placed for adoption”. Prisoner has the same meaning here as defined in TFC07600