Children’s minister Vicky Ford confirmed the funding will be extended past March this year, following a question submitted by former children’s minister Tim Loughton.
Ford said: “Funding for the Adoption Support Fund will be continuing for the next financial year of 2021-22.”
However, calls have been made to reinstate emergency funding, offered to adoptive parents last year, during the current national lockdown.
Adoption UK, the country’s leading charity for adoptive families, said that the announcement “means thousands of adoptive families will continue to be offered a range of therapeutic support aimed at helping their children overcome past trauma”.
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