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All parents who have experienced losing a pregnancy can apply for a certificate formally recognising their loss, the government has announced.
Ofsted has today published the final part in its series of Best start in life research reviews relating to early years education.
Programme to help avoid brain injury in childbirth piloted from today to boost maternity safety.
Letter giving local authorities notice of a grant to help with costs of data returns.
Letter to local authorities outlining new burdens funding to set up agency child and family social worker data collection for the 2024 to 2025 financial year.
States’ obligations on the role of the family in supporting human rights of its members. Delivered by the UK's Human Rights Ambassador, Eleanor Sanders.
The first stage of the government’s plan to deliver 3,000 nurseries by upgrading spare spaces in primary schools will begin next month.
Claim Child Benefit using the HMRC app and receive payment within a week.
Local leaders laid bare the stark challenges that must be overcome to tackle child poverty in their communities when they met with the new Child Poverty Taskforce today [Thursday 19 September].
Ofsted, CQC, HMICFRS and HMI Probation undertake a programme of thematic joint targeted area inspections (JTAI) and the inspectorates have today published guidance for their thematic focus on domestic abuse.
Hundreds of thousands of parents of children from nine months old take up new 15 government funded hours of early education from Monday
Temporary ban on prescription and supply of puberty blockers extended.
Urgent work on tackling one of Britain’s biggest social injustices begun yesterday [Wednesday 14 August] as the government’s Child Poverty Taskforce met for the first time.
Applications are open for experts wishing to join the OPSS Register of Specialists.
The Prime Minister has appointed leads of a new ministerial taskforce to begin work on the Child Poverty Strategy.
A national respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine programme protecting infants and elderly people will save lives in the UK.
New regulations restrict the prescribing and supply of puberty-suppressing hormones to children and young people under 18.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
How to claim Child Benefit if your child is continuing in further education after their GCSEs.
New age ratings to be introduced on Relationships, Sex and Health Education content in schools to ensure it is appropriately and sensitively taught.
Health and Social Care Secretary Victoria Atkins spoke at the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on birth trauma.
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