Question follow-through · 47860
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason she has made changes to the levels of payments made out of the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund; if she will publish a risk assessment for this funding change; and what assessment
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 24 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 30 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
24 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason she has made changes to the levels of payments made out of the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund; if she will publish a risk assessment for this funding change; and what assessment
30 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Apr 2025
Answer published
The changes made to the adoption and special guardianship support fund (ASGSF) were made so that funding can be accessed by the maximum number of children and families. The level of funding per child in 2025/26 will still allow adoptive and kinship famili...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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