We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Legal rights for intended parents and surrogates; how legal parenthood is transferred; children born outside the UK; pay and leave rights
The employment status of au pairs, nannies, carers, personal assistants and other people who work in your home - how to tell if they're an employee or not, what happens with the National Minimum Wage, tax and National I…
Complete this form to register a child's birth if both parents can't go in person to the register office
What happens if your child cannot go to school for health reasons - responsibilities of the local council and school and how medical needs are handled at school
You may need a child performance licence for any child taking part in a public performance, sporting event or modelling assignment
Apply to adopt a child through your local council if you are 21 or over and can offer a stable home to a child
Tax credits - appeals, appeal form, how to make a complaint.
Child Benefit if your child dies or the claimant dies - report the death, when to make a new claim, arrears
Checks into your tax credits - information you need to send, what happens to your claim, deadline for responding to the Tax Credit Office
Claim or deal with Child Benefit for someone else - if your child has a baby, authorisation form TC689, appointees, voluntary organisations
What happens when a child is taken into care - who is responsible for what, care proceedings, care orders, going to court and the role of Cafcass
Leaving foster or local council care - support from your council, review meetings and financial help
Child Benefit payments if your child goes into hospital or care - when payments stop, reporting the change
You might be able to stop someone getting a passport by applying for a court order - parental child abduction, vulnerable adults
Where and how to register a stillbirth, who can register it, financial support you may be able to get and support organisations
Find out when you'll be inspected by Ofsted, how to prepare, how you'll be inspected and how you'll be graded
Work out your eligible weekly childcare costs, when to report a change in costs
Tax credits if you live abroad, go travelling, are a cross-border worker or subject to immigration control
How to apply to have your child returned if they've been abducted, or arrange contact or enforce a court order in EU, Hague Convention and non-Hague Convention countries
Form for foster carers to prove they meet the required training, support and development (TSD) standards.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).