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Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
Guidance for people with symptoms of a respiratory infection including COVID-19, or a positive test result for COVID-19.
Apply to adopt a child through your local council if you are 21 or over and can offer a stable home to a child
The adoption process - eligibility, assessment, adoption agencies, adoption court orders, overseas adoptions and the rights of birth parents.
To be adopted, a child must: be under the age of 18 when the adoption…
To adopt a child you can go through either: an adoption agency that’s part…
Once the agency gets your application it will do the following: Invite you…
To make an adoption legal, you need to apply for an adoption court order.…
You need to tell your local council if you want to adopt your spouse’s or…
You can adopt a child from overseas if: they cannot be cared for in a safe…
For another couple (or person) to adopt your child, you normally have to…
Local authorities and regional adoption agencies can apply for therapeutic funding for eligible adoptive, special guardianship order and child arrangement order families.
What the fund is for and how to apply for it.
Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners.
Healthy Start is an NHS scheme that helps women who are pregnant or have young children and are receiving benefits, buy foods such as milk or fruit.
Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in a voluntary adoption agency.
Pandemic flu planning information for England and the devolved administrations, including guidance for organisations and businesses.
What to do if you are planning to adopt a child in the Philippines.
Your Statutory Adoption Pay and Leave - what you get, how to claim and eligibility
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Clinicians are provided with actions to complete when managing infectious diseases in the asylum seeker population.
The government's strategy to deliver excellence in adoption services across England.
Resource to help local government improve local wellbeing and growth through its multiple functions, service areas and partnership working.
Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in an adoption support agency.
This collection brings together publications by PHE relating to schools and school food.
If you were adopted you can access your birth records or get on the Adoption Contact Register to find birth relatives - how to apply, forms and information for birth relatives
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