Having a child, parenting and adoption
Legal rights, birth certificates, parental rights and child maintenance
A to Z
- Adding a father's name to a birth certificate
- Adoption records
- Alcohol and young people
- Apply for Tax-Free Childcare
- Apply for free childcare if you're working
- Apply for short-term care for your child
- Apply to adopt a child through your council
- Apply to foster a child through your council
- Become a special guardian
- Becoming a foster parent in England
- Calculate your child maintenance
- Check you're eligible for free childcare if you're working
- Child Maintenance Service
- Child Trust Fund
- Child adoption
- Child employment
- Child maintenance if a parent lives abroad
- Childcare Grant
- Childcare out of school hours
- Early years foundation stage
- Find a Sure Start Children's Centre
- Find a registered childminder
- Find an Ofsted inspection report
- Find free early education and childcare
- Find help to get your child back from abroad or arrange contact
- Get Tax-Free Childcare: step by step
- Get a police check on someone that has contact with a child
- Get childcare: step by step
- Get free childcare if you're working: step by step
- Help and support for foster parents in England
- Help if you have a disabled child
- Help paying for childcare
- How the Child Maintenance Service works out child maintenance
- If your child is taken into care
- Interest on savings for children
- Junior Individual Savings Accounts (ISA)
- Legal rights for egg and sperm donors
- Looking after someone else's child
- Parental rights and responsibilities
- Parents' Learning Allowance
- Plan your Shared Parental Leave and Pay
- Pregnant employees' rights
- Register a birth
- Register a birth abroad
- Register a stillbirth
- Request a baby loss certificate
- Sure Start Maternity Grant
- Surrogacy: legal rights of parents and surrogates
- Tax-Free Childcare
- The law on leaving your child on their own
- Unpaid child maintenance
- Unpaid parental leave