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• Get a legal separation

  How to get a legal or judicial separation if you want to separate from your partner without divorcing them.
• Protected characteristics and separation by sex on school inspections

  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
• Separating or divorcing: what you need to do

  Ending a relationship and agreeing on money and property, child arrangements (sometimes known as 'custody', 'residence' or 'contact') and child maintenance
• Collaborative working (CC34)

  Guidance about working in collaboration with other charities.

  • Updated: 7 March 2024
• How to write charitable purposes

  How to decide what your charity’s purposes are and write them in the ‘objects’ clause of your governing document.

  • Updated: 4 November 2014
• Apply for a judicial separation: Form D8S

  Use this form to apply to a court to legally separate from your husband, wife or civil partner without getting divorced.
• Cotswold uses digital consultation hub to double engagement

  Cotswold District Council used a consultation hub to make its local plan easier to understand, increase participation and reduce officer processing time.

  • Updated: 19 December 2025
• Visas when you separate or divorce

  You must usually tell the Home Office when you divorce or separate from your partner if your visa is based on your relationship
• Separated families statistics

  Statistics relating to separated families and their child maintenance arrangements.

  • Updated: 27 March 2025
• Export controls: dual-use items, software and technology, goods for torture and radioactive sources

  Guide to licensing procedure and other restrictions for export of controlled dual-use items, software and technology, goods for torture and radioactive sources.

  • Updated: 7 July 2025