Question follow-through · 42564
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issued to local authorities on the rules for applications to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund to be carried over into the 2025 financial year.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 31 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 11 Apr 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
31 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issued to local authorities on the rules for applications to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund to be carried over into the 2025 financial year.
3 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Apr 2025
Answer published
Following an announcement on 1 April, the department is delighted to announce that £50 million has been allocated to the adoption and special guardianship support fund (ASGSF) for the 2025/26 financial year. No applications to the ASGSF made before 31 Mar...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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6 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department has spent on its contract with Mott Macdonald to administer the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund in each year since 2018.
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20 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish any impact assessment carried out by her Department as part of its decision to reduce the amount of funding per application to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund.