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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
A guide for primary headteachers setting out why they must engage parents on their school's relationships education policy and tips on how to do so.
Form SEND11: Attendance form - parents.
How to claim Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay and Leave: what you can get, check if you're eligible and how to claim it.
Guidance for local authorities and schools dealing with adults who have legal rights and responsibilities for a child.
Examples to show how some local authorities and their partners have integrated elements of parent conflict provision into mainstream services for families.
Vile abusers who rape a child will have their own parental responsibilities automatically removed under new laws.
A research paper from OFCOM
Findings from Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) research programme
This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff what parental responsibility is and why we need it for passport purposes.
COVID-19 vaccination consent form for children and young people or parents and carers.
UKHSA publishes its annual survey of parents to understand attitudes towards the childhood immunisation programme.
Guide for parents with learning disabilities, explaining changes to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system.
Guidance on children and the family courts for separated parents.
Local authority data on penalty notices, parenting orders and parenting contracts (for unauthorised absence).
Education Secretary’s letters make crystal clear that schools must share relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) curriculum material with parents.
Support for foster carers, including financial help, tax arrangements, how to make decisions for your foster child, claiming benefit while fostering, and other help.
From today (24 July 2023), parents of children aged 1 and 2 on Universal Credit will start to benefit from meeting more frequently with work coaches to help them prepare for work.
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