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New digital audio ads encourage young drivers to slow down on rural roads as part of the THINK! road safety campaign.
Product Safety Report for Good Lucky Boy Magic Luminous Drawing Board / Sketchpad presenting a serious risk of chemical and choking.
Information for existing and new Universal Credit claimants with more than 2 children.
The adoption process - eligibility, assessment, adoption agencies, adoption court orders, overseas adoptions and the rights of birth parents.
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
This white paper demonstrates how our education system can deliver on the government’s priority to level up across the country. The economic benefits of meeting the white paper’s ambitions, and the case for a fully trust led system, are also...
Your rights and the support you can get if you have a disabled child, including childcare, car costs, house adaptations and education
Product Safety Report for Boy Puppet with Accessories presenting a serious chemical risk.
You can ask the police to check if someone that has contact with a child has a record of sexual offences.
Parents can get in trouble with the law if their child gets arrested - find out about parenting programmes, Parenting Contracts and Parenting Orders
Schools can sanction pupils or exclude them - find out what schools are allowed to do, like search pupils for knives or drugs
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
Foster carers look after children when their parents are not able to - becoming a foster carer, money and support available, fostering agencies, foster parents
What local authorities need to do to place a child under 13 in a secure children’s home, and guidance on when it is appropriate to do so.
Guidance for sponsors about applications to Homes for Ukraine for children who are not travelling with or joining their parent or legal guardian.
Who has parental responsibility for looking after children, and how to apply for parental responsibility if you were unmarried to the mother or are not on the birth certificate
Product recall for musical guitar toy presenting a serious risk of choking, strangulation, and suffocation.
Child Benefit if your child dies or the claimant dies - report the death, when to make a new claim, arrears
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