Childcare and parenting

Includes giving birth, fostering, adopting, benefits for children, childcare and schools

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• Sign in to your childcare account
• Tax-Free Childcare
• Child Benefit when your child turns 16

Topics

• Pregnancy and birth

  Working, time off and financial support when you have a baby, registering a birth

• Fostering, adoption and surrogacy

  Fostering or adopting a child, including from abroad, and being a surrogate mother

• Financial help if you have children

  Includes help when having a baby or adopting, child benefit and tax credits, support for childcare

• Childcare

  Finding childcare, financial support for childcare and childcare for school-age children

• Schools and education

  Sending a child to school, financial support, dealing with the school

• Divorce, separation and legal issues

  Child maintenance and disagreements about parentage