Question follow-through · 97285
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she will set out the reasons for the reduction in the Fair Access Limit for the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund from £5,000 to £3,000 from April 2025; and what assessment she has made of
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 15 Dec 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she will set out the reasons for the reduction in the Fair Access Limit for the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund from £5,000 to £3,000 from April 2025; and what assessment she has made of
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Dec 2025
Answer published
The new criteria for the adoption and special guardianship support fund will enable as many children and families as possible to access support. So far this year, nearly 14,000 applications have been approved. The department continues to monitor and asses...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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