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Having a child, parenting and adoption
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- Adding a father's name to a birth certificate
- Adoption records
- Alcohol and young people
- Apply for short-term care for your child
- Apply to adopt a child through your council
- Apply to foster a child through your council
- Arranging child maintenance yourself
- Become a child's legal parent
- Child Support Agency (CSA) arrangements are ending
- Child Trust Fund
- Child adoption
- Child employment
- Child maintenance calculator
- Child maintenance if one parent lives abroad
- Childcare Grant
- Childcare out of school hours
- Childcare vouchers: better off calculator
- Early years foundation stage
- Find a Sure Start Children's Centre
- Find a registered childminder
- Find an Ofsted inspection report
- Find free early education and childcare
- Find help to get your child back from abroad or arrange contact
- Foster carers
- Get a police check on someone involved with a child
- Help if you have a disabled child
- Help paying for childcare
- How child maintenance is worked out
- If your child is taken into care
- Interest on savings for children
- Junior Individual Savings Accounts (ISA)
- Legal rights for egg and sperm donors
- Looking after someone else's child
- Parental rights and responsibilities
- Parents' Learning Allowance
- Pregnant employees' rights
- Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders (REMO) Unit
- Register a birth
- Register a birth abroad
- Register a stillbirth
- Rights for surrogate mothers
- Sure Start Maternity Grant
- Surrogacy: legal rights of parents and surrogates
- The law on leaving your child on their own
- Unpaid parental leave
- Use the Child Maintenance Service or Child Support Agency (CSA)
- When child maintenance payments stop
Detailed guidance
Births, deaths, marriages and care
A to Z
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Certificates, register offices, changes of name or gender
Birth certificates, registering a death, marriage, family history and correcting certificates
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Child Benefit
Information about eligibility, claiming and when Child Benefit stops
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Death and bereavement
Reporting a death, wills, probate and Inheritance Tax
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Having a child, parenting and adoption
Legal rights, birth certificates, parental rights and child maintenance
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Lasting power of attorney, being in care and your financial affairs
Includes dealing with benefits, taxes and leaving care
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Marriage, civil partnership and divorce
Includes getting married abroad, decree absolutes and looking after children
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