- Request
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Please treat this as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
I am requesting the following information relating to adoption support in Lincolnshire for the financial years 2020/2021 to 2024/2025, along with the YTD for 2025/2026:
1) The total amount of funding received from the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF, previously ASF) each year.
2) The number of families / adopters supported through the ASGSF each year.
3) The total amount spent from the ASGSF each year.
4) The average spend per family from the ASGSF each year.
5) Details of any additional local authority budgets or 'other pots' of money used to provide adoption support services, including the total amounts allocated or spent each year.
6) Any internal policies, guidance, or decision-making documents that set out when or how discretionary local budgets may be used to support adoptees, beyond the ASGSF.
I am requesting anonymised, aggregated data only ' no personal data of service users. - Decision
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I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.
1-2. Please see response to Q3-6 below.
3.
2020/2021
2021/2022
2022/2023
2023/2024
2024/2025
YTD
The total amount of funding received from the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF, previously ASF) each year.
398,046.38
654,416.45
510,444.08
655,880.36
829,387.77
1,011,710.43
4-6.
2020/2021
2021/2022
2022/2023
2023/2024
2024/2025
YTD
notes
The total amount of funding received and spent from the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF, previously ASF) each year.
398,046.38
654,416.45
510,444.08
655,880.36
829,387.77
1,011,710.43
The number of families / adopters supported through the ASGSF each year.
254
342
412
468
594
375
Data is gathered per individual child, not families / adopters
The average spend per family from the ASGSF each year.
1567.11
1913.63
1,239.91
1,400.17
1,395.60
2,697.90
Details of any additional local authority budgets or 'other pots' of money used to provide adoption support services, including the total amounts allocated or spent each year.
17,284.72-
9,505.96
17552.60
16782.14
30,157.81
This is the
Match funding LCC have provided to families in Lincolnshire.
In addition to this we provide funding for support groups, training and activities.
Any internal policies, guidance, or decision-making documents that set out when or how discretionary local budgets may be used to support adoptees, beyond the ASGSF.
LCC has a policy in respect of the payment of adoption allowances, the majority of which are discretionary and found here:
- Reference number
- 13838295
- Date request received
- 22 September 2025
- Date of decision
- 3 November 2025