Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much of the budget allocated to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund was spent on therapy in each financial year; and how much overspend there was in each financial year.
Answered by Janet Daby
The table below provides the data requested:
Financial Year | Therapeutic Services Spend | Over spend |
2016/17 | £26,162,360.25 | £3,797,187.45 |
2017/18 | £27,643,580.09 | £194,021.49 |
2018/19 | £40,188,413.25 | £19,668,135.73 |
2019/20 | £41,575,278.06 | £6,755,560.46 |
2020/21 | £40,942,685.01 | -£1,805,992.59 |
2021/22 | £50,217,044.09 | £6,726,186.49 |
2022/23 | £27,659,930.00 | -£16,481,530.49 |
2023/24 | £45,591,102.00 | £639,996.35 |
2024/25 | £56,676,643.00 | £11,355,181.91 |
Note: A negative number represents an underspend.
The large underspend in the 2022/23 financial year was due to a process change whereby the fund moved from payments on approval in advance to payments made in arrears on invoice.
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