Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 19 May 2025 to Question 47692 on Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund, if she will to publish the data on therapy service costs by region.
Answered by Janet Daby
The data requested is in the table below.
Number of applications* approved in the 2024/25 financial year with therapy service costs totalled by region*:
Region | Total application value less than £3,000 | Total application value between £3,000 and £5,000 |
East Midlands | 1,217 | 934 |
East of England | 1,265 | 731 |
Inner London | 421 | 404 |
North East | 621 | 603 |
North West | 1,073 | 1,092 |
Outer London | 651 | 563 |
South East | 1,847 | 1,300 |
South West | 1,834 | 1,438 |
West Midlands | 876 | 875 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 798 | 1,075 |
*The data presented is the number of approved applications with therapy service costs. Please note that an individual application could have multiple recipients with multiple placement types and access the Fair Access Limit from multiple years.
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