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Employment agencies and businesses must keep proper records and can be inspected by the Employment Agency Standards (EAS) Inspectorate; the records you must keep, how long to store them and what happens if you're inspected
If you’re running an employment agency or employment business you must…
You only have to keep records of work-seekers if you take action to find…
You must keep the following records about any hirers who contact you with…
Client account records Records for entertainment and modelling agencies…
The Employment Agency Standards (EAS) Inspectorate checks that employment…
You're required to keep records for all traded goods you declare to HMRC for four years, for duty and tax purposes and for government statistics.
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
You can access your birth records if you don’t have them because you were…
You can add yourself to the Adoption Contact Register at the General…
You can use an intermediary agency to help you trace a birth relative if…
What the public register is, what details you need to give us, and how the public can access this information.
It’s important that you keep up-to-date records of the income and expenditure connected with your company.
Find out what records you must keep about trusts for tax purposes, who can access your information, and what to do if your records are lost or destroyed.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's archive management teams.
How to access the historical censuses from 1841 to 1921.
Find out what records and accounts you must keep to support the information that you submit on your Plastic Packaging Tax return.
Find out what records you must keep and how to keep them if you're registered for VAT.
Record the details of scheduled delegated driving tests with the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA)
Records and paperwork you must keep if you're self-employed as a sole trader or partner in a business: income, costs, profit, how long to keep records.
Information for learners and parents about their personal learning record and unique learner number
Using metadata to make it easier to catalogue, validate, reuse and share your data.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office's file review and release process.
Employers' responsibilities when using agencies to find staff, including health and safety, access to facilities, vacancies, continuous employment, transfer fees and complaints
Find out what information to send to the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) and what records you need to keep as a Dairy Producer Organisation.
How to know whether the operatives you deploy are employed or self-employed, and what this means for tax and national insurance.
The rules for employment agencies and businesses: licences, vulnerable people, opting out, job advertisements, transfer fees, trade unions, terms and conditions and contracts, travel and accommodation for work-seekers
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