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If you were adopted you can access your birth records or get on the Adoption Contact Register to find birth relatives - how to apply, forms and information for birth relatives
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When an employee leaves or retires, update your payroll, give the employee a P45.
Schools can sanction pupils or exclude them - find out what schools are allowed to do, like search pupils for knives or drugs
Provides guiding principles on how planning can deal with land affected by contamination.
How UK organisations that supply or import packaging should comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Runaway of a trolley and subsequent collision at North Rode, Cheshire, 26 May 2024.
Guidance to support local planning authorities in preparing and publishing brownfield land registers.
Guidance on 5 year housing land supply and Housing Delivery Test.
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