The Adoption Support Fund (ASF), which has provided support worth £100m to more than 35,000 families in England since its launch in 2015, was due to end in March 2020.
However, the Department for Education has committed additional funding that sets November as the final month where applicants can receive up to nine months of support. This means that support will be available until July 2020 for some.
The future of the fund was due to be announced in the government's Comprehensive Spending Review in November, but the department said it recognised that there was uncertainty among adopters about future arrangements.
"Normally the government does not commit any funding for a future financial year before a spending review settlement is known," a DfE document containing details of the extension states.
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