Adoption Support Fund

(asked on 24th May 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that the caps on the Adoption Support Fund does not limit the therapeutic support available to children and young people.


Answered by
Vicky Ford Portrait
Vicky Ford
This question was answered on 28th May 2021

Since its launch in 2015, the Adoption Support Fund has given out over £200 million to provide therapeutic support to 36,000 children and young people. The average cost of applications funded is significantly below the fair access limit of £5,000 per child per year that have been set for the provision of therapies. The fair access limit enables a consistent and fair offer to be provided and maximises the number of children and young people that can be supported by the fund.

For the small number of children who require funding above the fair access limit, the fund will provide additional funding for some of these children, but only where a local authority or regional adoption agency agrees to provide 50% match funding towards any costs above the limit. 126 local authorities and regional adoption agencies have contributed £2.9 million towards the cost of support for children and young people whose needs exceed the limits and where there is a risk of an adoption breakdown.

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