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Guidance for employees and employers: employment rights when on maternity, paternity, adoption, neonatal care or parental bereavement leave - keeping in touch days, annual leave, returning to work, redundancy.
Correct the original registration with the register office or GRO - find out what corrections can be made, who can apply, how long it takes, what they look like
Your rights and the support you can get if you have a disabled child, including childcare, car costs, house adaptations and education
Re-register your child’s birth to add the father's name to the birth record or certificate at the register office
If your child cannot walk to school because of their special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) your local council must provide transport
Ask your council about before and after school clubs and holiday play schemes run by a school, private or voluntary organisation
Complain about a school - complaints process, when to complain to the Department for Education, the Education Funding Agency or Ofsted.
Check if you can get compensation if you’ve been unable to access Tax-Free Childcare or free childcare for working parents due to technical issues.
Use this form to apply for a Court of Protection order to become a deputy to make financial or welfare decisions for someone else.
The adoption process - eligibility, assessment, adoption agencies, adoption court orders, overseas adoptions and the rights of birth parents.
How to register as a childminder or nanny: the Ofsted Childcare Register, the Early Years Register, who can register, how to apply.
Tax credit overpayments - repaying tax credits, repayment methods, what to do if you cannot repay
Care to Learn helps pay for childcare while you're studying - how to apply, money you get, courses that qualify, eligibility
Guardian's Allowance help if you're looking after a child who is not your own - rates, eligibility, how to claim, appeal a decision.
Tell HMRC if you think your Child Benefit has been overpaid, how to repay an overpayment.
Child Benefit if your child lives with someone else - when you can claim, multiple claims, change who gets the benefit
How children's savings accounts are taxed, and the £100 limit on savings given by parents
Widowed Parent's Allowance - what you'll get, eligibility, how to claim, bereavement benefits claim form BB2.
Child Benefit if you've moved to the UK from abroad - who qualifies and which countries have an agreement with the UK
What to do if you need to get child maintenance and one of the parents lives abroad.
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