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This guide is to help you and your business understand how to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse on your platform.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to establish a safe environment for children to positively interact with each other.
The adoption process - eligibility, assessment, adoption agencies, adoption court orders, overseas adoptions and the rights of birth parents.
To be adopted, a child must: be under the age of 18 when the adoption…
To adopt a child you can go through either: an adoption agency that’s part…
Once the agency gets your application it will do the following: Invite you…
To make an adoption legal, you need to apply for an adoption court order.…
You need to tell your local council if you want to adopt your spouse’s or…
You can adopt a child from overseas if: they cannot be cared for in a safe…
For another couple (or person) to adopt your child, you normally have to…
Foster carers look after children when their parents are not able to - becoming a foster carer, money and support available, fostering agencies, foster parents
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to interact, and to share text and other content.
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
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to ensure that content on your service is appropriate for children.
Services and care available through the NHS for children.
How to claim Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay and Leave: what you can get, check if you're eligible and how to claim it.
Child Trust Fund accounts - find a lost account, how to make payments, managing the account
How local authorities should notify incidents to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.
What you need to do if you need to leave your children in the care of your sponsor, or if you can't travel with your children to the UK.
How to use a before-and-after study to evaluate your digital health product.
Information to help healthcare professionals make decisions about the planning and provision of services using child and maternal health data and intelligence.
This guide is to help you and your business understand issues around data protection and privacy. It is intended for organisations that provide online services likely to be accessed by children.
This guidance outlines options to consider and who to contact if your child has been taken or kept abroad by their other parent or a relative without your permission.
A new government campaign will be launched to support parents as research highlights some are unaware their baby's mental health impacts their early development.
Your rights and the support you can get if you have a disabled child, including childcare, car costs, house adaptations and education
How to make arrangements for your children if you divorce or separate, mediation and how to apply for a court order if you cannot agree.
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