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To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the findings of the Adoption Barometer 2025 on the proportion of adoptive parents approaching adoption support services with education-related issues; and what implications they consider those findings have for the provision of adoption support.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the findings of the Adoption Barometer 2025 on the proportion of adoptive parents approaching adoption support services with education-related issues; and what implications they consider those findings have for the provision of adoption support.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the educational needs of adopted children and children in kinship care are reflected in planned reforms to adoption and kinship support.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the educational needs of adopted children and children in kinship care are reflected in planned reforms to adoption and kinship support.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department holds statistics on the number of Regional Adoption Agencies which do not have the facility for adoptive parents to top up Adoption and special guardianship support fund payments for children’s therapy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department holds statistics on the number of Regional Adoption Agencies which do not have the facility for adoptive parents to top up Adoption and special guardianship support fund payments for children’s therapy.
The department does not hold statistics about any arrangements which Regional Adoption Agencies may have in place for such a purpose.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking with local authorities to promote fostering for adoption as part of the national foster carer recruitment campaign.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking with local authorities to promote fostering for adoption as part of the national foster carer recruitment campaign.
The national foster carer recruitment campaign focuses on encouraging people to consider fostering who may not otherwise have thought about it. The campaign does not include specific steps aimed at promoting fostering for adoption, but it has engaged people with lived experience, including those who have fostered and gone on to adopt, to help inform its messaging.
Local authorities and fostering hubs have been at the heart of developing the national campaign. We have worked closely with them to strike the right balance between consistent national messaging and the flexibility to tailor local activity to their communities, including in relation to fostering for adoption. The national campaign page is available at: https://fostering.campaign.gov.uk/.
The department continues to work with the sector to ensure prospective foster carers understand the full range of fostering options available, including fostering for adoption, as part of its wider support for the fostering system.
Through Adoption England, we are delivering targeted activity to promote and improve Early Permanence practice. This includes the You Can Adopt campaign, which features stories of families who have adopted through early permanence.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the consistency in usage of fostering for adoption placements by local authorities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the consistency in usage of fostering for adoption placements by local authorities.
The national foster carer recruitment campaign focuses on encouraging people to consider fostering who may not otherwise have thought about it. The campaign does not include specific steps aimed at promoting fostering for adoption, but it has engaged people with lived experience, including those who have fostered and gone on to adopt, to help inform its messaging.
Local authorities and fostering hubs have been at the heart of developing the national campaign. We have worked closely with them to strike the right balance between consistent national messaging and the flexibility to tailor local activity to their communities, including in relation to fostering for adoption. The national campaign page is available at: https://fostering.campaign.gov.uk/.
The department continues to work with the sector to ensure prospective foster carers understand the full range of fostering options available, including fostering for adoption, as part of its wider support for the fostering system.
Through Adoption England, we are delivering targeted activity to promote and improve Early Permanence practice. This includes the You Can Adopt campaign, which features stories of families who have adopted through early permanence.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the expertise within schools and wider education services to support adopted and kinship children who have experienced early adversity, trauma, abuse, neglect or loss; and what steps she is taking to strengthen that expertise.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the expertise within schools and wider education services to support adopted and kinship children who have experienced early adversity, trauma, abuse, neglect or loss; and what steps she is taking to strengthen that expertise.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of whether adopted and kinship children receive timely support when difficulties emerge at key educational transition points, including starting school, moving to secondary school and entering further education.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of whether adopted and kinship children receive timely support when difficulties emerge at key educational transition points, including starting school, moving to secondary school and entering further education.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve coordination between schools, health and mental health services, local authorities and adoption and kinship services so that children and families receive coordinated support when their needs cross service boundaries.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve coordination between schools, health and mental health services, local authorities and adoption and kinship services so that children and families receive coordinated support when their needs cross service boundaries.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of Estyn's recent report in Wales, which found that adopted, previously looked-after and kinship children are less consistently identified and supported in education than children who are currently looked after.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of Estyn's recent report in Wales, which found that adopted, previously looked-after and kinship children are less consistently identified and supported in education than children who are currently looked after.
I am happy to check that point with the team doing the work, and will drop the hon. Lady a line to confirm.
I am happy to check that point with the team doing the work, and will drop the hon. Lady a line to confirm.
In answer to the earlier question from my hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron), the Minister confirmed that his ongoing review into parental leave and pay explicitly includes self-employed people. He will be aware of the gap whereby self-employed adopters are not eligible for the support for which birth parents and employed adopters are eligible. Is his review looking at closing that gap, so that potential future adopters are not prevented from growing their families and giving some of our most vulnerable young people the families they deserve?
In answer to the earlier question from my hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron), the Minister confirmed that his ongoing review into parental leave and pay explicitly includes self-employed people. He will be aware of the gap whereby self-employed adopters are not eligible for the support for which birth parents and employed adopters are eligible. Is his review looking at closing that gap, so that potential future adopters are not prevented from growing their families and giving some of our most vulnerable young people the families they deserve?
In answer to the earlier question from my hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron), the Minister confirmed that his ongoing review into parental leave and pay explicitly includes self-employed people. He will be aware of the gap whereby self-employed adopters are not eligible for the support for which birth parents and employed adopters are eligible. Is his review looking at closing that gap, so that potential future adopters are not prevented from growing their families and giving some of our most vulnerable young people the families they deserve?
I am happy to check that point with the team doing the work, and will drop the hon. Lady a line to confirm.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her department has made of the potential impact of not knowing the medical history of patients who have been adopted on those people.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her department has made of the potential impact of not knowing the medical history of patients who have been adopted on those people.
The government recognises the importance of ensuring that clinicians can take account of the impact of adoption where relevant.
Alongside the government’s apology on 2 July 2026 for historic forced adoption practices in England, the government committed to work with NHS England to explore how patients who wish to do so can have their experience of adoption appropriately recorded in their health record. This, alongside practical tools and guidance to support improved understanding of adoption-related needs, will support clinicians to take this into account in relation to care, family history, and wider support needs. This includes improving how clinicians respond where family medical history is unknown, including through clearer guidance on screening referrals and the use of genetic services where appropriate.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were in receipt of (a) Statutory Maternity Pay, (b) Statutory Paternity Pay, (c) Statutory Adoption Pay and (d) Statutory Shared Parental Pay in the (i) 2024-25 and (ii) 2025-2026 financial year.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were in receipt of (a) Statutory Maternity Pay, (b) Statutory Paternity Pay, (c) Statutory Adoption Pay and (d) Statutory Shared Parental Pay in the (i) 2024-25 and (ii) 2025-2026 financial year.
Counts of employees receiving Statutory Maternity Pay, Statutory
Paternity Pay, Statutory Adoption Pay, and Statutory Shared Parental Pay for tax years 2024-25 and 2025-26 are included in the table below.
Table 1 – Claims by Statutory Payment.
| 2024-25 | 2025-26 | |
| Statutory Adoption Pay | 4,500 | 4,300 |
| Statutory Shared Parental Pay | 22,700 | 27,400 |
| Statutory Maternity Pay | 631,400 | 639,000 |
| Statutory Paternity Pay | 216,400 | 230,100 |
Notes:
1) Data collected using HMRC Real Time Information (RTI) and extracted in July 2026. RTI is subject to revision or updates.
2) Counts of claims have been rounded to nearest 100.
3) Figures may not sum to totals due to rounding.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve access to mental health services for adopted children and their families.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve access to mental health services for adopted children and their families.
The department is investing £55 million in 2026/2027, a 10% increase, in the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund, which provides support to address mental health challenges.
We are considering responses to our consultation ‘Adoption Support that Works for All’, which closed on 5 May and asks what works to improve adopted children’s mental health.
The consultation explains that we are funding Regional Adoption Agencies to pilot multi-disciplinary teams that bring together social care, health and educational partners to deliver assessment and support to adopted children and families, including access to mental health services.
We are working with the Department of Health and Social Care to pilot mental health support, including support for adoptive families. This will test a fully integrated model of mental health support for all children and families involved with children’s social care when they need it. Expressions of interest were invited from Integrated Care Boards by 1 September.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress she has made in finalising the Government's response to the consultation The Adoption Support that works for all: Reimagining adoption and kinship support, making it fit for the future.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress she has made in finalising the Government's response to the consultation The Adoption Support that works for all: Reimagining adoption and kinship support, making it fit for the future.
Through our ‘Adoption Support that Works for All’ consultation, the department is considering evidence from adoptive and kinship families, and other stakeholders, about the support they would like to see made available.
The consultation included proposals to promote standardised needs assessments from multi-disciplinary teams. We are already funding Regional Adoption Agencies to develop multi-disciplinary teams, bringing together social care, health, and educational partners to deliver assessment and support to adopted and kinship children and families.
We currently plan to publish the government's response to the consultation later this year.
We are also assessing kinship families’ support requirements through the Kinship Zones pilot on the impact of financial allowances, assessed through independent evaluation. The National Kinship Care Ambassador has published learning in her report ‘Improving the Kinship Local Offer and Approach to Kinship Care’ and school census data collected from autumn 2026 will help improve the evidence base.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will conduct an assessment of the effectiveness of Regional Adoption Agency Multi-Disciplinary Teams in providing differing levels of support for families who have adopted children and families who are kinship carers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will conduct an assessment of the effectiveness of Regional Adoption Agency Multi-Disciplinary Teams in providing differing levels of support for families who have adopted children and families who are kinship carers.
Through our ‘Adoption Support that Works for All’ consultation, the department is considering evidence from adoptive and kinship families, and other stakeholders, about the support they would like to see made available.
The consultation included proposals to promote standardised needs assessments from multi-disciplinary teams. We are already funding Regional Adoption Agencies to develop multi-disciplinary teams, bringing together social care, health, and educational partners to deliver assessment and support to adopted and kinship children and families.
We currently plan to publish the government's response to the consultation later this year.
We are also assessing kinship families’ support requirements through the Kinship Zones pilot on the impact of financial allowances, assessed through independent evaluation. The National Kinship Care Ambassador has published learning in her report ‘Improving the Kinship Local Offer and Approach to Kinship Care’ and school census data collected from autumn 2026 will help improve the evidence base.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of trends in the levels of support requirements for families who have adopted children and families who are kinship carers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of trends in the levels of support requirements for families who have adopted children and families who are kinship carers.
Through our ‘Adoption Support that Works for All’ consultation, the department is considering evidence from adoptive and kinship families, and other stakeholders, about the support they would like to see made available.
The consultation included proposals to promote standardised needs assessments from multi-disciplinary teams. We are already funding Regional Adoption Agencies to develop multi-disciplinary teams, bringing together social care, health, and educational partners to deliver assessment and support to adopted and kinship children and families.
We currently plan to publish the government's response to the consultation later this year.
We are also assessing kinship families’ support requirements through the Kinship Zones pilot on the impact of financial allowances, assessed through independent evaluation. The National Kinship Care Ambassador has published learning in her report ‘Improving the Kinship Local Offer and Approach to Kinship Care’ and school census data collected from autumn 2026 will help improve the evidence base.