Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy that families that are (a) receiving and (b) in the process of applying for therapeutic support via the Adoption Support Fund will be able to access that fund beyond March 2022; and if he will make a statement.

Our transitory funding arrangements for the adoption support fund (ASF) mean that applications for therapy starting between August and November 2021 may be funded for up to nine months, up to July 2022. We will be able to confirm more detailed plans, including for the ASF, in due course. In the meantime, we remain deeply committed to supporting families and adopted children.