Life, family and learning

Sunderland should be a place where every child and young person has high aspirations and has the best opportunities to help them achieve their full potential.

• Education and learning

  Information about schools and learning including support and intervention for schools, safeguarding in schools, and special educational needs.

• Childcare

  Information about childcare provision available within the city

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  Fostering, adopting and looked after children

  Details about the information. guidance and support we provide about fostering, adopting and looked after children

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  Support for families and young people

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  Births

  You must register the birth of your baby within 42 days of the date of the birth.

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  Deaths, funerals and cremations

  Information and advice on what to do before and after a death.

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  Marriages and civil partnerships

  Information and advice on getting married or entering a civil partnership, including where you can hold a ceremony and what you may need to know about the formalities.

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  Asylum and immigration

  Sources of information and advice to help you in relation to asylum, immigration and nationality issues.

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  Libraries, museums and galleries

  Being a member of one of Sunderland's public libraries gives you access to over three quarters of a million books and other items...