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The Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) programme is the flagship women’s economic empowerment programme funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

• Updated: 14 February 2025

This guide aims to improve the way functional work is done across government, by making it easier for people to comply with functional standards.

• Updated: 30 September 2024

Apply for a Youth Mobility Scheme visa to live and work in the UK if you’re from a participating country - fees, eligibility, how to apply.

• Overview

  You can apply for a Youth Mobility Scheme visa if you: want to live and…

• Eligibility

  If you’re from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Korea You can…

• Documents you must provide

  When you apply you’ll need to provide: a valid passport or other document…

• Apply

  Check which documents you’ll need to apply. You’ll also have to pay the…

• Extend your visa

  You can only apply to extend your Youth Mobility Scheme visa if you’re…

Make arrangements to return home voluntarily if you're in the UK illegally or have claimed asylum by assisted return, voluntary return, AVR, VRS

How to find an NHS dentist and how much treatment costs.

• Updated: 6 February 2024

Your Council Tax bill - how to work it out, who has to pay, discounts and exemptions for students and disabled people, second homes, empty properties, paying the bill and getting the Council Tax rebate.

Student finance - student loans or student grants for tuition fees and living costs, extra help, student loan repayments.

Through an experiment in Malawi, the author established an effective and replicable design to offer informal firms support to formaliz

• Updated: 1 January 2015

• Updated: 8 September 2023

Functional Standards Common Glossary

• Updated: 26 September 2024