Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund

Tom Gordon Excerpts
Tuesday 1st April 2025

(3 days ago)

Commons Chamber
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Tom Gordon Portrait Tom Gordon (Harrogate and Knaresborough) (LD)
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I would like to thank my hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham for securing this urgent question and the Minister for her commitment on the £50 million. I have secured an Adjournment debate on Thursday on adoption breakdown, and over the past few days I have been asking people to tell me their stories. I have heard that things such as the adoption and special guardianship fund are crucial to preventing it. With that in mind, what assessment has the Minister made of the impact of the fund on ensuring that adoptions can continue, and will she make that information publicly available, if possible?

Janet Daby Portrait Janet Daby
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I look forward to speaking to the hon. Member during his Adjournment debate—I am sure that he will ask me many more questions, as is absolutely appropriate. I would say that this should not prevent people from coming forward to adopt children, and that children will still get the support they need and so rightly deserve.