Category: blog
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Parliamentary Briefing, March 2026
Click here to download the Action Against ASGSF Changes parliamentary briefing, March 2026 Executive Summary Future of the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) and Department for Education Proposals for Post-Adoption Support Reform March 2026 The situation On 10 February 2026, the Minister for Children and Families confirmed that the ASGSF will continue until Read more
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The Future of the ASGSF
Our Response: Down, But Not Out Today the government set out its plans for adoption and kinship support beyond the current Spending Review period, alongside the launch of a 12-week consultation on post-adoption support in England, including the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund. What Has Actually Been Announced Stripped of spin, today’s announcement confirms Read more
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Glossy Ads Fail Children
We have written before about adopter recruitment advertising that has landed badly with adoptive families. It continues regardless. In October 2025, we received an email from a marketing and recruitment professional at a North East Regional Adoption Agency. They were frustrated. Campaigners from Action Against ASGSF Changes had been commenting on their adopter recruitment adverts Read more
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A System Built to Respond only to Crisis is a System Built to Fail.
Led by Adoption England, regional adoption agencies have built policies that allow access to vital, life changing and life saving therapeutic resources only when families are in the depths of crisis and on the verge of saying they can no longer carry on. Indeed they are so open about this policy that some have sent Read more
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What this campaign is, and is not
As we resume campaigning after the Christmas break, we have an opportunity to improve how our campaign aims are currently understood, both by those who support our work and by those who are still forming a view. Read more
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Language Matters
An argument for a shift in narrative around modern adoption Recent coverage of adoption has shone a light on a stark truth: as a country, we are still talking about adoption as if it were a fairytale ending, not a complex response to profound loss and trauma. The gap between the story and the reality Read more
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Apology from Sarah Johal, National Adoption Strategic Lead
Dear Community, On 10th June 2025, as we shared at the time, Sarah Johal, National Adoption Strategic Lead (Adoption England) made contact with our campaign team. She did this in response to the open letter we wrote to Chancellor Rachel Reeves on 6th June 2025. Our letter referenced what we considered to be deeply offensive Read more