Helen Goodman – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Goodman on 2014-03-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that children and adoptive parents receive support beyond the initial stages of the adoption process.

Edward Timpson

People who adopt are making a life changing decision, both for themselves and the children they adopt.

Research indicates a high level of need among adoptive families for therapeutic services often many years after the adoption process has ended.

It is for this reason that we have committed £19.3 million into an Adoption Support Fund to make therapeutic support much more widely accessible, timely and of high quality for adoptive families.