Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department has provided through the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund in each years since 2015; and how many individual children have accessed support through the Fund in each year since 2015.
Answered by Janet Daby
The information requested is available in the following table:
Financial year | Numbers of individual children who have accessed support through the Fund | Overall funding (£ million) |
2015/16 | 2876 | 19 |
2016/17 | 5712 | 23.93 |
2017/18 | 8797 | 29 |
2018/19 | 11531 | 37 |
2019/20 | 11823 | 42 |
2020/21 | 11261 | 45* |
2021/22 | 13663 | 46 |
2022/23 | 14862 | 47 |
2023/24 | 16333 | 48 |
End of year data is not yet available for 2024/25
*In 2020/21, £8 million was repurposed for the adoption support fund COVID-19 scheme.
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