Savings accounts for children

Junior Individual Savings Accounts (ISA), interest, tax.

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Services

• Junior Individual Savings Accounts (ISA)

  How to open a Junior ISA for your child - including managing and adding money to an account.

• Interest on savings for children

  How children's savings accounts are taxed, and the £100 limit on savings given by parents

• Apply to make decisions on someone's behalf as a deputy: Form COP1

  Use this form to apply for a Court of Protection order to become a deputy to make financial or welfare decisions for someone else.

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Guidance and regulation

• Junior individual saving accounts for looked-after children
  • Statutory guidance
  • 17 April 2023
  • Department for Education
• Child Trust Funds: communication resources
  • Promotional
  • 4 September 2020
  • HM Revenue & Customs
• Tax-free savings newsletter 1
  • Guidance
  • 19 April 2021
  • HM Revenue & Customs
• ISA manager bulletin 78
  • Guidance
  • 23 January 2019
  • HM Revenue & Customs

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News and communications

Almost 430,000 young people urged to claim their cash

18 September 2023 — Press release

HM Revenue & Customs

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Policy papers and consultations

• Increasing the Child Trust Fund annual subscription limit for 2019 to 2020
  • 22 February 2019
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • Policy paper

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Organisations

• HM Revenue & Customs
• Department for Education
• HM Courts & Tribunals Service