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The adoption process - eligibility, assessment, adoption agencies, adoption court orders, overseas adoptions and the rights of birth parents.
Find out if your child is eligible for help with the cost of home to school transport
Your responsibilities with your local council if you want to educate your child at home - sometimes called home schooling
Find out what vocational or academic courses and qualifications are available at schools, colleges and sixth forms in your area
How to employ an apprentice, what's expected of you and what funding you can get.
Travel grants for students including medical and dental students - travel costs, Erasmus placements, how to apply, eligibility, travel expenses forms.
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) if you're studying in Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales
Get in touch with the Department for Education (DfE).
Improve skills like reading, writing, maths or Information and Communication Technology (ICT) - courses, qualifications, find a course and help
Find and apply for a further or adult education course and work out what financial help you can get
Funding and university courses for mature students - entry requirements, find courses, student finance
Where to find internships and work placements.
Postgraduate funding for overseas students studying in the UK: types of scholarship, eligibility, how to apply
Adult Dependants' Grant for full-time students who financially support an adult - funding, how to apply, eligibility.
Childcare for your children before and after school - after-school clubs, breakfast clubs, homework clubs, childminders
Find and apply for a college or university course - full time, part time, post graduate, UCAS, Unistats, National Careers Service, Open University, CUKAS
Check your local council for advice on becoming a licensed chaperone for children in the entertainment, modelling or sports
School closures happen because of an emergency like severe weather - check whether your child's school is closed on your local council website.
Support and benefits you can get if you're looking after someone else's child, court orders - kinship care, private fostering, friends and family care
Foster carers look after children when their parents are not able to - becoming a foster carer, money and support available, fostering agencies, foster parents
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