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How to get contact with your grandchildren if parents divorce or separate and will not let you see them: mediation, applying for a court order

How VAT works, what VAT is charged on, VAT thresholds and VAT schemes.

• Overview

  VAT (Value Added Tax) is a tax added to most products and services sold by…

• What VAT is charged on

  VAT is charged on things like: goods and services (a service is anything…

• How much VAT you must charge

  There are 3 different rates of VAT that can be added to products. Which…

• VAT thresholds

  You need to register for VAT if you go over the registration threshold (or…

• VAT schemes

  VAT schemes are designed to simplify the way some VAT-registered…

Visiting a prisoner: visiting times, keeping in touch by email, telephone or letter, banned items and sending money to a prisoner by debit card or online bank transfer

• Letters, video and telephone calls

  Letters You can contact a prisoner by writing to them. Write the person’s…

• Email and social media

  Prisoners are not allowed to access social networking websites (such as…

• Banned items

  You must not send or give anything to a prisoner that: is indecent or…

• Sending money

  You can send money to someone in prison by making an online payment by…

• Visiting someone in prison

  You can make an online request to visit someone in prison in most cases.…

How to work out splitting up money, property and possessions when you divorce or dissolve a civil partnership - including mediation.

This guidance is for staff and managers working in adult social care settings (ASC). It gives information on multidrug-resistant organisms and principles on how to prevent the spread of these pathogens.

• Updated: 5 January 2026

Guidance for inspectors on inspecting separation by sex in schools and the teaching of protected characteristics and relationships and sex education (RSE).

• Updated: 5 November 2025

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.

Safety leaflet on topical corticosteroids and withdrawal reactions to help patients and their carers to use these medicines safely.

• Updated: 29 May 2024

Ending a relationship and agreeing on money and property, child arrangements (sometimes known as 'custody', 'residence' or 'contact') and child maintenance

Find out how to import timber and wood material, including the documents, identity checks and plant health inspections required.

• Updated: 19 September 2025