Information for sponsors or hosts

Thank you for sponsoring guests from Ukraine to stay with you in Lambeth.

Our borough has a proud history of welcoming people from around the world, which you are now a part of. 

If you are interested in sponsoring people to stay in the UK, please register your interest on the Homes for Ukraine website. 

Pre-arrival home check

We will visit your home before or soon after your guests arrive to check that the accommodation you are offering is appropriate and that everything is in place for your guests.

We will get in contact with you to arrange this.

Caring for a child or young person

If you have been asked to care for a child or young person from Ukraine, then you might be fostering that child privately and you must inform the council.

You are private fostering if you are an adult who is not their parent, a person with parental responsibility, or an immediate relative (e.g. grandparent/uncle/aunt/sister/brother) AND you are are:

• caring for a child or young person under the age of 16, or under 18 if they have a disability
• providing them with accommodation for more than 28 days

If this applies to you, you must inform the council immediately so that we can support you to ensure that your home is a safe place for the child or young person.

To inform the Private Fostering Team, please email helpandprotection@lambeth.gov.uk

Thank you payment

All sponsors are entitled to receive a thank you payment of £350 per calendar month per household once their guests arrive. 

The thank you payment amount will increase to £500 per calendar month, per household, once the guests have been in the UK for over 12 months.

Payment is subject to the completion of a DBS check for host and all household members.

Sharing further information

We will update these pages once we have received more information from the government on the following topics:

• Pre-arrival and post-arrival checks 
• Accommodation checks 
• Address validation checks 
• Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks 
• Safeguarding 
• Process for accessing public services 
• Providing local council tax support 
• Post 16 education, employment, and training 
• Administration of funds 
• Initial cash allowance for guests
• Operation of ‘thank you’ payment system