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This programme aims to join up and enhance services delivered through transformed family hubs in local authority areas, ensuring all families can access the support they need.
Guidance on how government policy makers should apply the ‘family test’.
Find out if there's a family hub in your local area. Family hubs are a single place to get support for children, young people and families. This can include baby groups and parent classes, counselling services and financial advice.
The family procedure rules are a single set of rules governing the practice and procedure in family proceedings in the high court, county courts and magistrates' courts.
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
An annual report that provides facts and figures about the incomes and living circumstances of households and families in the UK.
This collection contains immigration staff guidance on migrants who are family members of UK residents.
This page shares essential programme delivery and policy guidance for Supporting Families.
Annual statistics about food and drink purchases in the UK.
The IFRP provides independent advice to the Home Office on how best to safeguard children’s welfare during a family’s enforced return. IFRP works with the Home Office .
Immigration staff guidance on considering claims based on family life (as a partner or parent) or exceptional circumstances.
When you can share information about your case, what you can share and what to do if someone else shares information.
Partner, spouse, dependant and family member visas and permits
Information on how to submit an expression of interest (EoI) to take part in the project's second round.
Guidance and sign up form for local authorities pre-selected to take part in the Family Hubs and Start for Life programme.
Children will be better protected from the impact of lengthy courtroom battles thanks to pioneering measures to help families resolve disputes as swiftly as easily possible.
We hear cases where a child who is the subject of legal proceedings must be protected and this protection is not possible under the Children Act 1989. This is called our ‘inherent jurisdiction’. The most common type of case is...
The Family Justice Council (FJC) helps to get better results for families in the court system, with input from 30 locally based FJCs around the country. FJC is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Ministry of Justice .
What to do if you're visiting the UK for a holiday or to see family or friends: check if you’re eligible, if you need a visa, and what to do before you visit.
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