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• Updated: 15 July 2015

Parents can get in trouble with the law if their child gets arrested - find out about parenting programmes, Parenting Contracts and Parenting Orders

An article which looks at how parents in Great Britain have been trying to balance caring for their children with working from home.

• Updated: 22 July 2020

Legal rights, parental rights and child maintenance

• Updated: 14 January 2026

How a Best Start Family Hub integrates early-years education alongside other wider family support.

• Updated: 4 February 2026

Activities oriented to improving how parents approach and carry out their role as parents and to increasing parents’ child-rearing resources

• Updated: 10 August 2020

Resources and tools to help commissioners, managers and leaders reduce the impact of damaging parental conflict on children.

• Updated: 18 January 2021

Research bringing together evidence on parenting behaviours and the extent to which public policy can support parents.

• Updated: 20 February 2017

Analysis of spending patterns by household type in 2020 to 2021, including comparisons of single and two-parent households using Living Costs and Food Survey data. This article also highlights reported experiences regarding increases in the cost of living among different...

• Updated: 7 September 2022

• Updated: 15 January 2021