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Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure the adoption and special guardian support fund can continue to offer support beyond March 2025.

answeredDepartment for Education

About this written question

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
21 Feb 2025
Target answer date
25 Feb 2025
Answer
3 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure the adoption and special guardian support fund can continue to offer support beyond March 2025.

  2. 25 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The department will shortly be finalising business planning decisions on how its budget will be allocated for the next financial year. All decisions regarding the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) are being made as part of these discu...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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