Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 98974

Adoption: Mental Health

Tabled: 10 December 2025
Answered: 19 December 2025

Question

Dan Carden

LabourLiverpool Walton

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what specialist support is available to adoptive parents of children with experience of trauma.

Answer

Josh MacAlister
This financial year, the department has invested £50 million in the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund, giving adopted and kinship children access to therapeutic services that stabilise placements and offer specialist support to both adoptive ...

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