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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
Permission from parents and courts to take a child on holiday abroad and avoid abduction
Report on a new method for calculating dose rates to biota from radon and its daughters.
Use the online service (CH459) to tell the Child Benefit Office that your child aged 16 or over has left approved education or training.
This policy brief compares mothers’ and daughters’ capabilities in Nepal to assess where changes have been strongest and weakest
Eleanor Shawcross is a Public Policy Specialist. Most recently, she served as Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State at the Department of Work and Pensions, having previously spent a number of years at HM Treasury on the Council...
What happens when a child is taken into care - who is responsible for what, care proceedings, care orders, going to court and the role of Cafcass
Tax credits for children aged 16 or over - approved education, approved training and when Child Tax Credit stops or continues.
Your rights and the support you can get if you have a disabled child, including childcare, car costs, house adaptations and education
Advice for state-funded school admission authorities, independent schools, local authorities and parents.
Child Benefit if your child lives with someone else - when you can claim, multiple claims, change who gets the benefit
What happens if your child cannot go to school for health reasons - responsibilities of the local council and school and how medical needs are handled at school
Who has parental responsibility for looking after children, and how to apply for parental responsibility if you were unmarried to the mother or are not on the birth certificate
You can apply for a Parent of a Child Student visa if your child attends an independent school in the UK.
Educating your child at home ('home schooling'): when to get permission, telling the school, curriculum, SEN.
Let the Child Benefit Office know that your child is staying in approved education or training after the age of 16 using the CH297 online form.
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
Apply through your local council for short-term ('respite') care for your sick or disabled child to enable you to have a break from caring
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