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Claim or deal with Child Benefit for someone else - if your child has a baby, authorisation form TC689, appointees, voluntary organisations
Form for solicitors to provide additional information about a protected party, if the Official Solicitor is asked to be a litigation friend.
This is the official one-stop shop for businesses on child online safety.
Impact of parental conflict on local services, including education, health and social care, court systems, and drug and alcohol services.
Consultation launched to strengthen safeguards for child strip search including the requirement to notify parents and guardians when a child is strip searched.
Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in a children’s home or secure children’s home.
This guide is to help you and your business understand issues around data protection and privacy. It is intended for organisations that provide online services likely to be accessed by children.
Tell the local authority if you're worried that a child is being neglected or abused - call 999 if they’re in immediate danger
Statistics on primary school children who are overweight, measured in reception and year 6 and presented for different ethnic groups.
How to get contact with your grandchildren if parents divorce or separate and will not let you see them: mediation, applying for a court order
How local authorities should collect and submit data for the annual children looked after return (also known as SSDA903).
When and how to identify your kids and goats with tags.
How to apply to have your child returned if they've been abducted, or arrange contact or enforce a court order in EU, Hague Convention and non-Hague Convention countries
Form A55: Application for permission to change a child's surname (Section 28 Adoption and Children Act 2002).
The adoption process - eligibility, assessment, adoption agencies, adoption court orders, overseas adoptions and the rights of birth parents.
Form A107: Consent by the child's parent to adoption by their partner. The Adoption and Children Act 2002.
Form A56: Application for permission to remove a child from the United Kingdom (Section 28 Adoption and Children Act 2002).
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
Form A59: Application for a Convention Adoption Order (Section 46 Adoption and Children Act 2002).
Form C23: Emergency Protection Order (Section 44 Children Act 1989).
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