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• 30 hours free childcare
• Adding a father's name to a birth certificate
• Adoption records
• Alcohol and young people
• Apply for 30 hours free childcare
• Apply for Tax-Free Childcare
• Apply for short-term care for your child
• Apply to adopt a child through your council
• Apply to foster a child through your council
• Become a special guardian
• Becoming a foster parent
• Child Trust Fund
• Child adoption
• Child employment
• Child maintenance if a parent lives abroad
• Childcare Grant
• Childcare out of school hours
• 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
• Get 30 hours free childcare: step by step
• Get Tax-Free Childcare: step by step
• Get a police check on someone that has contact with a child
• Get childcare: step by step
• Help and support for foster parents
• Help if you have a disabled child
• Help paying for childcare
• 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
• Making a child maintenance arrangement
• Manage your Child Maintenance Service case
• Parental rights and responsibilities
• Parents' Learning Allowance
• Plan your Shared Parental Leave and Pay
• Pregnant employees' rights
• Register a birth
• Register a birth abroad
• Register a stillbirth
• Sure Start Maternity Grant
• Surrogacy: legal rights of parents and surrogates
• Tax-Free Childcare
• The law on leaving your child on their own
• Unpaid parental leave