Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
(asked on 9th June 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) allocated Departmental budget, (b) amount of overspend, (c) amount of surrendered funds not used by local authorities and (d) amount of surrendered funds repurposed for other applications for the adoption and special guardianship support fund was in (i) 2023-24 and (ii) 2024-25.
The table below provides the data requested on the adoption and special guardianship support fund (ASGSF).
| 2023/24 financial year | 2024/25 financial year |
Average amount of ASGSF funding awarded per recipient (total covers therapy and specialist assessments combined) | £3,044 | £3,090 |
Allocated departmental budget | £48,000,000 | £49,000,000 |
Overspend | £639,996.35 | £11,355,181.91 |
Surrendered funds | £11,268,383.37 | £13,894,781.10 |
All surrendered funding from 2023/24 and 2024/25 was repurposed for other ASGSF applications and added to the total spend.