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When an employee leaves or retires, update your payroll, give the employee a P45.

Find out what you should do if you are leaving or have recently left the armed forces.

• Updated: 12 September 2024

How a prisoner is released - including Parole Board hearings, resettlement schemes and temporary release on licence

• When someone can leave prison

  When a prisoner is released depends on: the length of their sentence their…

• Temporary release from prison

  A prisoner may be allowed to leave prison for short periods towards the…

• Before someone leaves prison

  All prisoners get help preparing for life when they leave prison. In the…

• Support when someone leaves prison

  A person leaving prison may get the following financial support: Universal…

The age you can leave school in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

What an employee needs to do when they resign from a job: how to give notice, notice period, payment arrangements, gardening leave, restrictive covenants

Get your goods cleared by the National Clearance Hub when moving goods into, out of, or through the UK.

• Updated: 20 August 2024

Indefinite leave to remain if you've left the armed forces - fees, who's eligible, how to apply.

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

Your Statutory Adoption Pay and Leave - what you get, how to claim and eligibility

A temporary export bar has been placed on a painting by the celebrated British contemporary artist Howard Hodgkin

• Updated: 5 March 2026