Last month the Fair Access Limit for funding support Under the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) was capped at £3,000 a child, while previously it was £5,000 with a separate allowance of £2,500 for specialist assessments.
But figures released by the government show that 46% of applications made in 2024/25 were above the new limit and would not have been approved if made this year.
The same proportion of applications to support children in special guardianship and kinship care arrangements with therapy would also have had to be downgraded if made this year.
The data was revealed by children’s minister Janet Daby in parliament in response to a request for information about applications made by Labour MP for Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes and chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Kinship Care Melanie Onn.
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