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Benefits for families
Benefits families and pregnant women can claim.
Child abuse and neglect
Children's rights to protection against assault, sexual abuse and neglect.
Powers of attorney
Information about authorising someone else to make decisions about your property and financial affairs or your health and personal welfare on your behalf. Includes lasting and enduring powers of attorney.
Adoption
Your rights on issues around adoption. Includes the rights of birth parents and adoptive parents, and the child's rights to information about their birth parents.
Gender reassignment
Your rights if you are waiting for or have undergone gender reassignment.
Names
How you can change your name.
Fostering and kinship care
Fostering a child in your own home, or raising a child that you know, because their parent is not able to.
Emergency accommodation
Short-term housing that you can get if you are in urgent need, for example, bed and breakfast hotels and hostels. Councils often provide short-term accommodation to homeless applicants, while they look into what further help they can provide.
Wills and trusts
The rules about how you make a will, set up trusts and deal with an estate.
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