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Statistics about separated families and the child maintenance system.
Why children are sent to custody, what it's like, visiting, advice and support
Tell the Child Benefit Office about changes to your family circumstances.
Child Benefit if you've moved to the UK from abroad - who qualifies and which countries have an agreement with the UK
How and when to report changes that affect your Child Benefit payments, such as earnings going above £60,000. How to update a change of address or bank details.
Information about Universal Credit for families with more than 2 children.
Statutory guidance about providing short breaks for disabled children to improve their welfare and quality of life.
Use the online service (CH459) to tell the Child Benefit Office that your child aged 16 or over has left approved education or training.
What to do if you are asked to look after your guest's child or children unexpectedly. This could include if your guest needs to leave the country, or travel separately.
This guidance explains how to pay child maintenance using Collect & Pay arrangements and what happens if you do not make a payment.
Guidance and forms for claiming Child Benefit. Including how to claim, Guardians Allowance, payment dates, repaying overpayments, reporting changes, and complaints.
You can start Shared Parental Leave (SPL) and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (ShPP) if you're eligible and you or your partner ends your maternity or adoption leave early - eligibility, entitlement, starting SPL and splitting blocks of leave
Advice for state-funded school admission authorities, independent schools, local authorities and parents.
Use the online service to restart your Child Benefit payments if you've previously stopped them because of the High Income Child Benefit Charge.
Medicines and Healthcare product Regulatory Agency official Parental Leave policy and procedures.
Children will be better protected from sexual abuse following change to the law making it easier to prosecute criminals who have had sex in front of children for gratification.
Form to apply to stay as child under 18 of a non-parent relative with protection status in the UK but who has not yet settled.
A clampdown on parents who refuse to take financial responsibility for their children has been set out by the government today.
Schools can sanction pupils or exclude them - find out what schools are allowed to do, like search pupils for knives or drugs
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