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Children and parenting

Parental rights, child maintenance, childcare and keeping children safe online.

  1. Having a baby

    Includes registering a birth, free vitamins and getting financial support when you're pregnant.

  2. Adoption

    How to adopt a child in Scotland and where to find information about your adoption if you've been adopted.

  3. Looking after a child

    Includes becoming a child's guardian, children and living apart and arranging for someone you know to look after a child.

  4. Early years and pre-school

    Information on early years education, including pre-school and nursery options.

  5. Support for parents, carers and families

    Including financial support and contact with grandchildren when the parents have split up.

  6. Help paying for childcare

    Help you can get with paying for registered childcare. Includes funded early learning and childcare and Tax-Free Childcare.

  7. Children and family

    Best Start Grant, Best Start Foods, Scottish Child Payment

  8. Young people and the law

    Includes legal rights, support for young victims of crime, Children's Hearings and cyber bullying.

  9. Speaking to a child welfare reporter

    Information for children and young people on what happens when they speak to a child welfare reporter.

  10. Children and living apart

    Making arrangements for your children after a divorce or separation, parental rights and child maintenance.

  11. Children and bereavement

    When a baby or child dies or is dying, or when a child is facing bereavement.

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