Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund were approved in (a) Stockton West constituency, (b) across Stockton Borough, (c) the North East and (d) England in each of the last five years.
Answered by Josh MacAlister
This data shows the number of approved applications within the last five financial years for the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF):
- | Stockton-on-Tees (selected by Adoption Tees Valley RAA) | Stockton-on-Tees SGO | North East * | England |
2025/26 | 95 | 14 | 1,593 | 20,000 |
2024/25 | 96 | 37 | 1,363 | 20,085 |
2023/24 | 104 | 24 | 1,392 | 19,495 |
2022/23 | 99 | 7 | 1,146 | 17,380 |
2021/22 | 69 | 5 | 1,053 | 15,822 |
Please note that:
- Each application could contain multiple recipients and include funding allocated to multiple financial years.
- The data is extracted from the ASGSF portal which holds the information from the ASGSF application forms submitted by local authorities and Regional Adoption Agencies (RAAs). As such the data cannot be quality assured and relies on the local authorities and RAAs to provide accurate information.
- “Applications” refers to the applications approved by the ASGSF not applications submitted.
Please also note these are the RAA/local authorities included in the ASGSF North East Region:
Adopt North East, Adopt Tees Valley (Stockton-on-Tees LA recipients apply under this RAA), Darlington Special Guardianship Order (SGO), Durham SGO, Gateshead SGO, Hartlepool SGO, Middlesbrough SGO, Newcastle upon Tyne SGO, North Tyneside SGO, Northumberland SGO, Redcar and Cleveland SGO, Stockton-on-Tees SGO and Sunderland.
In 2025/26, the department allocated up to £2.5 million from the ASGSF to enable Adoption England to test out more flexible approaches to adoption support. The 2025/26 figures do not include services that may have been funded through this Pilot.
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