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You can ask the police to check if someone that has contact with a child has a record of sexual offences.
You can apply for a Parent of a Child Student visa if your child attends an independent school in the UK.
Child Benefit if your child lives with someone else - when you can claim, multiple claims, change who gets the benefit
Explanation of terms used in Ofsted's official and national statistical releases.
Guidance for local authorities, trusts, schools, colleges and FE institutions about who owns DfE loaned devices, asset management and loan agreements.
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.
The education provision for service children overseas can be categorised as Defence Children Services (DCS) Schools and Settings or non MOD schools locations.
Legal rights, birth certificates, parental rights and child maintenance
Permission from parents and courts to take a child on holiday abroad and avoid abduction
Find out about giving support for a maximum of 2 children and what to do if an exception applies to you.
Use this guide to help you think about the items you would like to include in your child maintenance arrangement.
Get a passport for your child or baby - renewals and first child passports, application form, supporting paperwork, eligibility, costs
Review of the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood, examining the pressures children are under to grow up too quickly.
Apply for a High Potential Individual (HPI) visa if you've been awarded a qualification by an eligible university in the last 5 years - eligibility, fees, documents, switch, bring your partner and children
How to set up or manage a child maintenance arrangement, including what to do if a parent does not pay, how to contact the Child Maintenance Service, and signing in to your account.
Information about Universal Credit for families with more than 2 children.
Child Trust Fund accounts - find a lost account, how to make payments, managing the account
When and how to identify your kids and goats with tags.
Form to register a child under 18 as a British overseas territories citizen: form MN2.
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
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