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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 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.
Evaluation of the Reducing Parental Conflict programme (RPC) from phase one, 2018 to 2022.
The rules on working hours - hour and limits, rests, health assessments and terms and conditions
Find out how to apply to become a child's special guardian.
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
Information and resources for leaders, managers and practitioners seeking to improve children’s outcomes by supporting the parental relationship.
Parents can get in trouble with the law if their child gets arrested - find out about parenting programmes, Parenting Contracts and Parenting Orders
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to establish a safe environment for children to positively interact with each other.
Your employee can take Shared Parental Leave (SPL) if they're eligible and they or their partner ends their maternity or adoption leave early - eligibility, entitlement, starting SPL, splitting blocks of leave and record keeping
The Month of the Military Child each April celebrates Service children.
Operating principles for commissioners and providers of night shelters for people experiencing rough sleeping.
Information on childcare for service families within the UK and overseas.
Requirements you must meet if you are an Ofsted-registered out of school club, nursery or other type of daycare on the compulsory part of the Childcare Register.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse on your platform.
Children under 10 who break the law can be given a Local Child Curfew, a Child Safety Order or can be taken into care
Guardian's Allowance help if you're looking after a child who is not your own - rates, eligibility, how to claim, appeal a decision.
Information to help healthcare professionals make decisions about the planning and provision of services using child and maternal health data and intelligence.
This guidance explains how to pay child maintenance using Collect & Pay arrangements and what happens if you do not make a payment.
Find out how to register a birth - who can register, birth certificates
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