Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 77852

Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund: Eligibility

Tabled: 16 September 2025

Answered: 14 October 2025

Question

Gideon Amos

Liberal Democrat — Taunton and Wellington

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to review the eligibility criteria for the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund to ensure that adoptive families whose children were not previously looked after by a local

Answer

Josh MacAlister

The Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) is targeted at children who were previously looked after by a local authority, as the local authority maintain a statutory responsibility to these children. Local authorities may still provide sup...

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