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Use our guide to plan ways you can safely rediscover summer with your family.
Services and care available through the NHS for children.
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
Guide for parents and legal guardians about applications to Homes for Ukraine for children who are not travelling with or joining their parent or legal guardian.
How to make arrangements for your children if you divorce or separate, mediation and how to apply for a court order if you cannot agree.
Explore the impact of parental conflict on children and young people.
Support for foster carers, including financial help, tax arrangements, how to make decisions for your foster child, claiming benefit while fostering, and other help.
What to do if you need to get child maintenance and one of the parents lives abroad.
This guide is to help you and your business understand issues around data protection and privacy. It is intended for organisations that provide online services likely to be accessed by children.
You can be prosecuted if your child has unauthorised absence from school - truancy, help with getting your child to school, and legal action to enforce school attendance
How local authorities should collect and submit data for the annual children looked after return (also known as SSDA903).
Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners.
How local authorities should collect data from social care services to complete the annual children in need census.
Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients from Uruguay for healthcare practitioners.
This page provides a collection of online media literacy resources and events.
The adoption process - eligibility, assessment, adoption agencies, adoption court orders, overseas adoptions and the rights of birth parents.
This is a guide for providers of social media and interactive services and includes examples of good practice and advice and information about how to keep children safe online
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to establish a safe environment for children to positively interact with each other.
An overview of Ofsted's registration process for adoption agencies, fostering agencies, children’s homes, residential family centres and residential holiday schemes for disabled children.
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