There are likely costly consequences of capping the individual limit for assessments and therapy under the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) at £3,000, write the organisations working with affected children in a letter to Bridget Phillipson.
Risks include disruption to placements, children returning to care, and an undermining of both the government-funded adopter recruitment campaign and its drive to increase the number of children looked after in kinship arrangements.
They accuse the DfE of making the decision without consultation with sector organisations or adoptive and kinship families “including your department’s own national reference groups for adoptive parents and kinship carers”.
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