Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
(asked on 20th May 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
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.
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.