Adoption Support Fund: Finance

(asked on 30th September 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has for future funding of the Adoption Support Fund; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Michelle Donelan Portrait
Michelle Donelan
This question was answered on 7th October 2019

​We are currently finalising the department’s spending plans for 2020-21 and the Adoption Support Fund is being considered as part of this work. In March 2019, ahead of budgets being finalised, we put in place transitional funding for families whose recommended packages of support ran into 2020-21 so they could continue to access therapy for up to 9 months at a time. Funding for the Adoption Support Fund beyond 2021 will be considered as part of the full Spending Review planned in 2020.

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