Children being looked after via special guardianship arrangements should get greater support at school due to the legacy of ...

After this article was published, the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund was confirmed for another year, with £50m in funding. Get the latest on the ASGSF here. The Adoption and Special ...

The Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) will continue in 2025-26, with £50m available to fund therapies and specialist assessments for children formerly in the care system. Children ...

A special guardianship is a Family Court order that places a child or young person in long-term care with someone other than their parents. Lady Berridge said AMHP’s “don’t want to be ...

Over the last decade, thousands of families have got help through the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support ... to "juggle things as a family" in order to pay privately for therapy if the ...

The Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF), which provides therapy for more than 18,000 young people, is due to expire on Monday 31 March – with no guarantee from Labour that it ...

Adoption UK said the news was "distressing" for families, who had already faced "an agonising wait" to find out whether the adoption and special guardian support fund, external would continue.

That it’s no longer what was outlined in the special guardianship order.” Health minister Baroness Merron said the Government had tabled amendments 29-33 “to make it clear who an approved ...

Special guardianship is unlike adoption it is not a lifelong order, nor does it legally end the child's relationship with their birth family, instead it places a child or young person with a friend or ...