The tag ‘Child Benefit Changes’ collates all related articles under this term.
Ofsted recently undertook a study of ten local authorities and 123 cases of children involved with social services in a survey commissioned by Chief Inspector… Read More »Vulnerable children at risk as study shows 25% of social workers’ assessments are ‘not timely enough’
Both Jersey and Guernsey have decided to drop laws that prevented same sex couples from adopting children. Guernsey decided that its adoption law, which was… Read More »Channel Islands Drop Same Sex Adoption Restrictions
Mrs Justice Theis has warned when speaking at a conference ‘Surrogacy Symposium’ in London, that failure by parents to obtain parental orders in respect of… Read More »Children born through surrogacy who lack a court’s parental order could become ‘stateless and parentless’ with birth mother remaining legal parent – warns High Court judge.
What is Universal Credit? Universal Credit was introduced by the government in 2012 and has already been introduced in many areas. Universal Credit is a… Read More »Does Child or Spousal Maintenance affect Universal Credit?
Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 (Schedule 1) was intended to make financial provision for the children of unmarried parents when they separated. Under… Read More »Schedule 1 to The Children Act 1989 applications – not just for the wealthy!
According to a recent Department for Work and Pensions report (DWP), the number of non-resident parents who are paying towards the cost of their children… Read More »DWP report states non-resident parents paying child maintenance hits an ‘all time high’ – does this reflect reality?
From Monday 7th January 2013 child benefit will be means tested. Households in which one parent earns more than £50,000 will no longer be eligible… Read More »Child Benefit Changes