Adoption Support Fund

Adoption Support Fund

The Department for Education fully appreciates that families and the sector will have queries about the Adoption Support Fund given the current Coronavirus situation.

On 10 April 2020, the Department announced a temporary scheme to enable RAA and LA adoption teams to access ASF funding to provide ASF eligible families with immediate therapeutic support arising from the Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation.

Please click here for the announcement. Guidance on the scheme can be accessed here  

The Fund is continuing to operate as usual for individual child/family level applications within scope of the Fund. The Department has issued these frequently asked questions for these applications, which they hope you will find useful.

The FAQs can be accessed by following the link http://coram-i.org.uk/resource/asf-coronavirus-faqs/

Data

To ensure that Local Authorities, Voluntary Adoption Agencies, and Regional Adoption Agencies are able to focus on their important frontline work, we will not be conducting checks on the Q3 data.

The DfE have now decided to proceed with the ASGLB data collection, so the Q4 2019/20 data collection period will be from Monday 4th May to Friday 7th August.