The NHS has agreed to fund the treatment of five-year-old brain tumour patient Ashya King in the Czech Republic.
His parents sparked an international police hunt when they removed their son from Southampton General Hospital on August 28 without medical consent.
They took him to Prague to receive proton beam therapy, which was not available for him on the NHS.
A spokesman for NHS England said: "Our thoughts are with Ashya and his family as he begins follow-on radiotherapy.
"Now that Ashya is in Prague, it is clearly best that Ashya continues to be treated uninterrupted so the NHS has agreed to fund this care, as requested by his parents, in accordance with relevant European cross-border arrangements."
Brett and Naghemeh King faced a legal battle to get their child to Prague's Proton Therapy Centre (PTC) after removing him from hospital, with a High Court judge approving the move after they had been released from police custody in Spain.
The PTC, in a statement on its website, outlined the difference between proton beam therapy and conventional radiotherapy. It said: "Proton therapy can be much better modulated and precisely focused into the tumour volume."
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