Benefits and financial support for families

Help if you look after children or plan to have or adopt a child. Includes Child Benefit.

Find out what you could get

• Benefits calculators
• Check benefits and financial support you can get

Time off and pay when you have or adopt a child

• Maternity pay and leave
• Maternity Allowance
• Sure Start Maternity Grant
• Paternity pay and leave
• Shared Parental Leave and Pay
• Adoption pay and leave
• Unpaid parental leave

Child Benefit

• Child Benefit
• Child Benefit when your child turns 16
• Child Benefit tax calculator
• High Income Child Benefit Charge

Support for separated families

• Child Maintenance Service

Support for disabled children

• Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for children
• Help if you have a disabled child
• Disabled Facilities Grants

Help with childcare costs

• Get childcare: step by step
• Help paying for childcare
• Childcare Grant
• Care to Learn

Other support

• Apply for free school meals
• Healthy Start
• Guardian's Allowance
• Parents' Learning Allowance
• Support visits if you need help to claim benefits