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Information about Universal Credit for families with more than 2 children.
Statistics on children referred to and assessed by children's social services.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse on your platform.
Child Trust Fund accounts - find a lost account, how to make payments, managing the account
These statistics provide detailed annual estimates of the number of families and children claiming Child Benefit on 31 August of the year of analysis.
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
Documents relating to the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse.
Guidance and forms for claiming Child Benefit. Including how to claim, Guardians Allowance, payment dates, repaying overpayments, reporting changes, and complaints.
Child Benefit - child benefit rates, eligibility, how to claim, child benefit claim form CH2.
Use the online service to tell the Child Benefit Office about changes to your child's circumstances.
The law does not say an age when you can leave a child on their own, but it's an offence to leave a child alone if it puts them at risk
Find activities and support from your local authority to help your child with communication, language and literacy skills.
The rules for child car seats and booster seats - height, weight, age, type of vehicle, car, minibus, licensed taxi
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
Use this form to ask the court to order someone to give information about where a child is or who a child is with.
OPSS is leading a fresh campaign to raise awareness among parents and carers about potential hazards to children associated with swallowing small magnets, button batteries, loose/small toy parts and imitation food.
Accounts for the client funds relating to the statutory child maintenance schemes.
Consultation launched to strengthen safeguards for child strip search including the requirement to notify parents and guardians when a child is strip searched.
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
Child Benefit if your child dies or the claimant dies - report the death, when to make a new claim, arrears
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