API access to Under 16s accounts (balances, transactions, and moving money in)

Is there any plan to expose Under 16s accounts through the developer API?

It’d be useful for parents like me building their own tools (allowance tracking, chores-to-pocket-money automations, etc.) to be able to:

  • List a child’s Under 16s account and read its balance/transactions

  • Move money from the parent’s current account into the Under 16s account programmatically

Totally understand if there are safeguarding/regulatory reasons this is deliberately kept out of the API, just wanted to check if it’s been considered, and flag the demand if not. Thanks!

Hi @matt.dolan & welcome :wave:

The under 16s account is a special ‘pot’ under the parent account. This structure eludes to no API access to them for said reasons. While I can’t state this in concrete, I’ve managed 2x under 16s accounts for several years and I like to tinker. Couldn’t get anywhere near the child accounts via an available API.

Manual judgement and transferring of funds it was/is!