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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.

The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep.

• Updated: 18 September 2024

Manage the finances or property of a missing person, someone kidnapped or taken hostage, or in a foreign prison and not able to communicate. Apply to the High Court to be a guardian. You'll need a guardianship order.

• Overview

  You can apply to be a guardian and manage the finances or property of…

• Who can apply

  You can apply if you’re the missing person’s: husband, wife or civil…

• Apply to be a guardian

  You can make a claim yourself or use a legal representative. Fill in the…

• How much it costs

  You must pay either: a £528 application fee if you apply to the Chancery…

• After you've applied

  The court will send copies of your form back to you, with ‘acknowledgement…

• When you’re appointed as a guardian

  The guardianship order will tell you when you can start to make decisions…

• Make decisions

  The Office of the Public Guardian will supervise you while you act as a…

• Keeping records, giving gifts and claiming expenses

  You must keep financial records and accounts. Follow the rules for gifts…

• Complete your report

  You must write a report for the Office of the Public Guardian each year…

• Make a decision that's not covered by the order

  You must apply to the High Court if you need to change your guardianship,…

• When the guardianship ends

  Your guardianship ends automatically if one of the following things…

The rules you must follow to make sure deer can be traced to help prevent and contain disease.

• Updated: 11 July 2024

Diseases and health problems in sheep and goats, including foot and mouth disease (FMD), scrapie and lead poisoning

• Updated: 2 February 2021

How to charge VAT, calculate VAT, VAT rates, reclaim VAT on business expenses, keep digital records.

Personal pay and tax records you must keep to fill in a Self Assessment tax return: which records to keep, how long to keep records.

How to use VAT margin schemes - records you need to keep, invoicing and VAT return reporting

What you need to tell DVLA and how to deal with vehicle tax if someone who was a driver has died

Information about the welfare of horses on farms and livery yards and how to dispose of waste and fallen stock.