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This Appendix sets out the requirements for applications made by children.
This article explains what parents can do to help their children in their early years.
Plans to strengthen the law so children continue to see both parents if they separate have been put forward by ministers today.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The positive role that both parents in a separated family can play in a child’s upbringing is being celebrated in a new video today.
Michael Gove describes his experience of being adopted in an article in the 'Daily Mail'.
The Prime Minister spoke at the Relationships Alliance Summit, held at the Royal College of GPs, on putting families at the centre of domestic policy-making.
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