Children's minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government will provide an extra £7m a year up to 2020 for the extension of the virtual school heads scheme.
The government will also increase funding for care leavers' personal advisers until 2021 to more than £12m, to cover their new responsibility for care leavers not in education, employment or training (Neet) up to 25.
Both roles are being extended through provisions contained in the Children and Social Work Act 2017, which are due to come into effect from 1 April.
Personal advisers currently provide care leavers with support until they are 21, or up to 25 if they are in education or training. But from 1 April they will be required to provide that support to all care leavers until they are 25.
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