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Children and family

Best Start Grant, Best Start Foods, Scottish Child Payment

  1. Best Start Grant and Best Start Foods

    Eligibility, apply, sending documents, payments

  2. Use your Best Start Foods card

    Balance, account, shops, online

  3. Scottish Child Payment

    Apply, under 16s, payments

  4. About Child Benefit

    Eligibility, claiming, children over 16

  5. Supporting information for disability benefits

    Sending documents, help, examples

  6. Get help with money if you have a child

    Benefits, grants, vouchers, advice

  7. Get help with money if you're pregnant

    Benefits, maternity pay, Best Start Foods

  8. Financial help if you have a disabled child

    Advice, bills, benefits

  9. Child Disability Payment

    Payments, apply, support

  10. Help with school clothing costs

    Information about how to apply for financial help for school clothing and shoes via the school clothing grant.

  11. Free school meals

    Information about who can get free school meals.

  12. Child maintenance

    How to arrange child maintenance if one of the parents does not live with a child.

  13. Young Patients Family Fund

    The Young Patients Family Fund helps with the cost of travel and food for parents, parent substitutes or siblings (aged under 18) of a inpatient under the age of 18 receiving care at hospital

  14. Guardian's Allowance

    Help if you're looking after a child who is not your own – rates, eligibility, how to claim or appeal a decision.

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