Special guardianship

Support from local authorities, guidance on looking after someone else's child.

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Services

• Looking after someone else's child

  Support and benefits you can get if you're looking after someone else's child, court orders - kinship care, private fostering, friends and family care

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Guidance and regulation

• Adoption and special guardianship support fund (ASGSF)
  • Detailed guide
  • 15 December 2023
  • Department for Education
• Special guardianship guidance
  • Statutory guidance
  • 26 January 2017
  • Department for Education

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News and communications

• England's first ever kinship care strategy launches
  • 15 December 2023
  • Department for Education
  • Press release
• Families across England to receive better support to adopt
  • 26 July 2021
  • Department for Education
  • Press release
• New adoption and special guardianship leader appointed
  • 15 December 2020
  • Department for Education
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• Children looked after in England including adoption: 2020 to 2021
  • 18 November 2021
  • Department for Education
  • National statistics
• Review of the adoption support fund COVID-19 scheme
  • 20 October 2021
  • Department for Education
  • Research
• Children looked after in England including adoption: 2019 to 2020
  • 10 December 2020
  • Department for Education
  • National statistics
• Children looked after in England including adoption: 2018 to 2019
  • 15 January 2020
  • Department for Education
  • National statistics

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Organisations

• Department for Education