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Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund opens for applications in 2025-26

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Sector bodies urge Phillipson to reconsider Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund cuts

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Girl looking sad to symbolise having suffered abuse

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DfE makes huge cut to Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund payments

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Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund to continue with £50m for 2025-26

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Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund expires with no news on future

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Prime minister Keir Starmer standing in the cabinet room in 10 Downing Street

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Starmer fails to confirm future of Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund as end looms

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Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund: minister ‘doing everything to push forward decision’

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Teenage girl looking at therapist in therapy session

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Thousands of children risk losing access to vital therapy, claim support providers

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Child psychologist talking to child who is sitting on sofa

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Concerns over future of Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund with resourcing unconfirmed

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Social worker with kinship carer or adoptive parent and child

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Children staying longer in care due to inequalities in kinship carer payments, says report

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Significant disparities in council support for kinship carers revealed by survey

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Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board to close this month

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Adoptions continue to decline with children waiting longer to be placed, latest figures show

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26-week target often unrealistic for kinship care assessments, say social workers

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