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providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Accept a fixed penalty\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Respond to road notices and penalties** in the **Transport enforcement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nConfirm the issuing jurisdiction and terms before using the official acceptance and payment route and retaining confirmation.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Fixed penalty notices](https://www.gov.uk/speeding-penalties)\n- [Scotland: Road safety, parking tickets, fines and bans in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport/penalty-points-fines)\n- [Wales: Fixed penalty notices](https://www.gov.uk/speeding-penalties)\n- [Northern Ireland: Motoring offences in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/fixed-penalties-motoring-offences)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Respond to road notices and penalties**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Respond to road notices and penalties", "source": "services/accept-fixed-penalty.md", "title": "Accept a fixed penalty within Respond to road notices and penalties" }, "process": { "id": "respond-to-road-notices-and-penalties", "route": "enclosing-process/respond-to-road-notices-and-penalties", "title": "Respond to road notices and penalties" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "attend-driver-awareness-course", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/attend-driver-awareness-course", "sequenced": false, "title": "Attend a driver awareness course" }, { "id": "challenge-private-parking-charge", "relationship": 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"resource/access-adult-skills-training-post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/access-adult-skills-training-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "access-adult-skills-training-primary", "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "access-adult-skills-training", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Access adult skills training\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter and fund post-school study** in the **Further education, university and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind a current funded adult-skills course and apply through an accountable provider.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Free courses for jobs](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/free-courses-for-jobs)\n- [Scotland: Further and higher education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Further and higher education in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Higher education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education/higher-education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter and fund post-school study**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter and fund post-school study", "source": "services/access-adult-skills-training.md", "title": "Access adult skills training within Enter and fund post-school study" }, "process": { "id": "enter-and-fund-post-school-study", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-and-fund-post-school-study", "title": "Enter and fund post-school study" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-further-education-course", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-further-education-course", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for a further education course" }, { "id": "apply-to-university", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-to-university", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply to university" }, { "id": "arrange-student-accommodation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-student-accommodation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange student accommodation" }, { "id": "claim-student-council-tax-disregard", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-student-council-tax-disregard", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim a student council tax disregard" }, { "id": "get-disabled-students-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-disabled-students-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Disabled Students' Allowance" }, { "id": "get-student-finance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-student-finance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get student finance" }, { "id": "register-with-health-services-as-student", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-with-health-services-as-student", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register with health services as a student" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/22e06a9a41c4943d379cedc4", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8ba5d4397a07559971ddbd7c" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/access-adult-skills-training", "situations": [ "An adult wants to gain skills, retrain or improve employment prospects." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_adult_skills_funding_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "access-adult-skills-training-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine eligibility, recommend a provider or award a qualification." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for 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"episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7ceff054788730bfd822bd7e", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9b3649ffde9bc1ffbab19820", "resource_route": "resource/access-child-trust-fund-access-child-trust-fund-primary", "source_id": "access-child-trust-fund-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4924acde7d2d5ed38e0ac60f", "resource_route": "resource/access-child-trust-fund-transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8e495d9a17790a41344c1988", "resource_route": "resource/access-child-trust-fund-transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/34ab9a3aa5c12e9f8fbfdd4e", "resource_route": "resource/access-child-trust-fund-transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/access-child-trust-fund-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "access-child-trust-fund-primary", "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "access-child-trust-fund", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Access a Child Trust Fund\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Move into independent mobility, health and care** in the **Transition to adulthood** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind a Child Trust Fund provider and follow the maturity, control or missing-account route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Child Trust Fund](https://www.gov.uk/child-trust-funds)\n- [Scotland: Education and training in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Young people in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Move into independent mobility, health and care**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Move into independent mobility, health and care", "source": "services/access-child-trust-fund.md", "title": "Access a Child Trust Fund within Move into independent mobility, health and care" }, "process": { "id": "move-into-independent-mobility-health-and-care", "route": "enclosing-process/move-into-independent-mobility-health-and-care", "title": "Move into independent mobility, health and care" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person", "sequenced": false, "title": "Consent to healthcare as a young person" }, { "id": "get-leaving-care-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-leaving-care-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get leaving-care support" }, { "id": "learn-to-drive-car", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/learn-to-drive-car", "sequenced": false, "title": "Learn to drive a car" }, { "id": "transition-to-adult-social-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/transition-to-adult-social-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Transition to adult social care" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d5417055e30ce00a1de4e9b7", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/778964b09771258f57a569a1" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/access-child-trust-fund", "situations": [ "A young person or responsible adult needs to locate or manage a Child Trust Fund." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "child_trust_fund_discovery_and_tracing_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "access-child-trust-fund-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not disclose account details, recommend a provider or decide access." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "HM Revenue and Customs", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/255f08ed1401762757b19592", "resource_id": "resource:access-child-trust-fund:access-child-trust-fund-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-child-trust-fund-access-child-trust-fund-primary", "summary": "Provides the current Child Trust Fund overview, tracing and provider handoffs.", "title": "Child Trust Fund", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/child-trust-funds" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4198846f29bc549d4c403d49", "resource_id": "resource:access-child-trust-fund:transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-child-trust-fund-transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish education, training and transition services.", "title": "Education and training in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0d81eac94d75d26ccd97f52e", "resource_id": "resource:access-child-trust-fund:transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-child-trust-fund-transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh learning, skills and transition services.", "title": "Education and skills in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/education-skills" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/eeabdf4e583b4b3d6a11d7b9", "resource_id": "resource:access-child-trust-fund:transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-child-trust-fund-transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes young people to current Northern Ireland services and responsibilities.", "title": "Young people in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Access a Child Trust Fund", "user_needs": [ "Use the official tracing route before contacting the regulated account provider." ] }, { "aliases": [ "find NHS dentist", "emergency dental appointment", "NHS dental treatment" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "access-dental-care-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "access-dental-care-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "health-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "health-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "health-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "health-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "health-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Find a dental provider using the current NHS route, confirm the appointment basis and use the urgent or commissioning handoff when routine access is unavailable.", "domain": { "id": "health-throughout-life", "route": "life-course-domain/health-throughout-life", "title": "Health throughout life" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person needs routine, urgent or specialist dental assessment or treatment.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Find a dental provider using the current NHS route, confirm the appointment basis and use the urgent or commissioning handoff when routine access is unavailable.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/99812a847821e067de972259", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2f0624de20a31cf73915787b" }, "route": "service-episode/access-dental-care-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/507f8295e480d51a37568d52", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/953d967fa4306809043a0bde", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/85dc05674a7264be153f2745", "resource_route": "resource/access-dental-care-access-dental-care-primary", "source_id": "access-dental-care-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f0bda7ce0af9401c6ff67851", "resource_route": "resource/access-dental-care-health-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "health-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c2e86d652d135a97be55aa29", "resource_route": "resource/access-dental-care-health-wales-handoff", "source_id": "health-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/aed50525ac6befa4043bf522", "resource_route": "resource/access-dental-care-health-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "health-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/access-dental-care-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "access-dental-care-primary", "health-scotland-handoff", "health-wales-handoff", "health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to access dental care and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Find a dental provider using the current NHS route, confirm the appointment basis and use the urgent or commissioning handoff when routine access is unavailable." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d622ec3ea6270f180d3cea09", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/027e5d5a724e0de244912098", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bf364bef3ecc8300f78d5f67", "resource_route": "resource/access-dental-care-access-dental-care-primary", "source_id": "access-dental-care-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c36a099b0723bc669167525c", "resource_route": "resource/access-dental-care-health-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "health-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6f2f51bb5867605fb9387b4f", "resource_route": "resource/access-dental-care-health-wales-handoff", "source_id": "health-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a587227e4cddb943a6f75821", "resource_route": "resource/access-dental-care-health-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "health-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/access-dental-care-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "access-dental-care-primary", "health-scotland-handoff", "health-wales-handoff", "health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7393a7f2e73c1730f11209a1", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/19dbb2d9548ed580a1716083" }, "route": "service-episode/access-dental-care-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/786a44a66ca5a7f85c228861", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/adfedd1770c549bdee43006f", "resource_route": "resource/access-dental-care-access-dental-care-primary", "source_id": "access-dental-care-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2090b225dc4f3f6c8c170555", "resource_route": "resource/access-dental-care-health-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "health-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c19a750e35ab66867534c0be", "resource_route": "resource/access-dental-care-health-wales-handoff", "source_id": "health-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e856a988152100c8538f86ff", "resource_route": "resource/access-dental-care-health-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "health-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/access-dental-care-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "access-dental-care-primary", "health-scotland-handoff", "health-wales-handoff", "health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "access-dental-care", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Access dental care\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Use routine and preventive healthcare** in the **Health throughout life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind a dental provider using the current NHS route, confirm the appointment basis and use the urgent or commissioning handoff when routine access is unavailable.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: How to find an NHS dentist](https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/dentists/how-to-find-an-nhs-dentist/)\n- [Scotland: NHS services in Scotland](https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/)\n- [Wales: NHS 111 Wales](https://111.wales.nhs.uk/)\n- [Northern Ireland: Health and Social Care Northern Ireland online](https://online.hscni.net/)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Use routine and preventive healthcare**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Use routine and preventive healthcare", "source": "services/access-dental-care.md", "title": "Access dental care within Use routine and preventive healthcare" }, "process": { "id": "use-routine-and-preventive-healthcare", "route": "enclosing-process/use-routine-and-preventive-healthcare", "title": "Use routine and preventive healthcare" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-eye-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-eye-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access eye care" }, { "id": "get-prescription", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-prescription", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a prescription" }, { "id": "get-sexual-and-reproductive-healthcare", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-sexual-and-reproductive-healthcare", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get sexual and reproductive healthcare" }, { "id": "get-vaccination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-vaccination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a vaccination" }, { "id": "register-with-gp", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-with-gp", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register with a GP" }, { "id": "use-pharmacy-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-pharmacy-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use pharmacy services" }, { "id": "use-screening-service", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-screening-service", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a screening service" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1404279c505417d156b0213c", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/839b2b92bc87e28fe4496947" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/access-dental-care", "situations": [ "A person needs routine, urgent or specialist dental assessment or treatment." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_dental_access_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "access-dental-care-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not guarantee an appointment, diagnose, quote a personal charge or establish devolved services." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/233e13811215004c8ba79876", "resource_id": "resource:access-dental-care:access-dental-care-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-dental-care-access-dental-care-primary", "summary": "Explains England NHS dental access, waiting, additional-needs and urgent handoffs.", "title": "How to find an NHS dentist", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/dentists/how-to-find-an-nhs-dentist/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_health_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "health-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, triage or establish the correct service for an individual situation." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS 24", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3f673a3850bdb24dbdcb7b32", "resource_id": "resource:access-dental-care:health-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-dental-care-health-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current NHS Scotland primary, community, urgent and specialist services.", "title": "NHS services in Scotland", "url": "https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/" }, { "authority_role": "wales_health_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "health-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not replace emergency services or establish that NHS England routes apply in Wales." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Ambulance Services NHS University Trust", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f350caa20ce2014926797e47", "resource_id": "resource:access-dental-care:health-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-dental-care-health-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current NHS Wales service, symptom and urgent-care information.", "title": "NHS 111 Wales", "url": "https://111.wales.nhs.uk/" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_health_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "health-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, triage or establish the responsible trust for an individual situation." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department of Health Northern Ireland", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/887ababdd4d40dc7993edd9d", "resource_id": "resource:access-dental-care:health-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-dental-care-health-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland health and social-care organisations and services.", "title": "Health and Social Care Northern Ireland online", "url": "https://online.hscni.net/" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Access dental care", "user_needs": [ "Find the correct NHS or private boundary, current charges and urgent route without diagnosis." ] }, { "aliases": [ "retrain for a new career", "job skills training" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "access-employment-retraining-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "access-employment-retraining-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", 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"precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/071a0fb3c19986e234d55b13", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a358f2974978bd95943a7538", "resource_route": "resource/access-employment-retraining-access-employment-retraining-primary", "source_id": "access-employment-retraining-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/119215d77c58b39e2cc51e14", "resource_route": "resource/access-employment-retraining-finding-work-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bfd3a0aa238cae5b8e1ef748", "resource_route": "resource/access-employment-retraining-finding-work-wales-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/09ed5f5802e107d06ecbfc8c", "resource_route": 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"not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to access employment retraining and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Find governed careers and skills routes before choosing a retraining course or provider." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5c6490787990510a320ce38a", "follows_previous": 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the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f2508d004cc0fd4c0c38e1ff", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/14d9c6754f5736aa5b7146f6", "resource_route": "resource/access-employment-retraining-access-employment-retraining-primary", "source_id": "access-employment-retraining-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3ce52f26ecf47af5f772c643", "resource_route": "resource/access-employment-retraining-finding-work-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7dc7f9ba14c0a8338c8be468", "resource_route": "resource/access-employment-retraining-finding-work-wales-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/63bea52899487bcb68e2a1f4", "resource_route": "resource/access-employment-retraining-finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/access-employment-retraining-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "access-employment-retraining-primary", "finding-work-scotland-handoff", "finding-work-wales-handoff", "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "access-employment-retraining", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Access employment retraining\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Respond to unemployment and redundancy** in the **Finding work and unemployment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind governed careers and skills routes before choosing a retraining course or provider.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Career skills and training](https://www.gov.uk/career-skills-and-training)\n- [Scotland: Finding a job in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job)\n- [Wales: Employment support in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/employment-support)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Respond to unemployment and redundancy**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Respond to unemployment and redundancy", "source": "services/access-employment-retraining.md", "title": "Access employment retraining within Respond to unemployment and redundancy" }, "process": { "id": "respond-to-unemployment-and-redundancy", "route": "enclosing-process/respond-to-unemployment-and-redundancy", "title": "Respond to unemployment and redundancy" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim New Style Jobseeker's Allowance" }, { "id": "claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Universal Credit while unemployed" }, { "id": "get-redundancy-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-redundancy-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get redundancy support" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bac844213d6ad73b74ec8423", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/20b08672e12b6932021a750b" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/access-employment-retraining", "situations": [ "A person needs new skills after unemployment, redundancy or a career change." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_career_training_discovery_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "access-employment-retraining-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not recommend a provider or guarantee funding or employment." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4f1bedc4be4daef98d4502d3", "resource_id": "resource:access-employment-retraining:access-employment-retraining-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-employment-retraining-access-employment-retraining-primary", "summary": "Routes people in England to current skills assessments, courses and funding.", "title": "Career skills and training", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/career-skills-and-training" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ec6cc23443a1f5471f3fa483", "resource_id": "resource:access-employment-retraining:finding-work-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-employment-retraining-finding-work-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish job-search and employment-support services.", "title": "Finding a job in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job" }, { "authority_role": "wales_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a3d8e8cb98f8da7159c1979c", "resource_id": "resource:access-employment-retraining:finding-work-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-employment-retraining-finding-work-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh employability and skills support.", "title": "Employment support in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/employment-support" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7d212bf6b4daf3f2d77c5f3d", "resource_id": "resource:access-employment-retraining:finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-employment-retraining-finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland employment services and rights.", "title": "Employment in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Access employment retraining", "user_needs": [ "Use public course and funding information and verify the provider." ] }, { "aliases": [ "find optician", "NHS 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"state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "health-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Use the territorial eye-care route for routine testing, eligibility information, treatment referral or urgent assessment as the situation requires.", "domain": { "id": "health-throughout-life", "route": "life-course-domain/health-throughout-life", "title": "Health throughout life" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person needs a sight test, optical service or assessment of an eye problem.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Use the territorial eye-care route for routine testing, eligibility 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"body": "# Access eye care\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Use routine and preventive healthcare** in the **Health throughout life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the territorial eye-care route for routine testing, eligibility information, treatment referral or urgent assessment as the situation requires.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Opticians and sight tests](https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/opticians/)\n- [Scotland: NHS services in Scotland](https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/)\n- [Wales: NHS 111 Wales](https://111.wales.nhs.uk/)\n- [Northern Ireland: Health and Social Care Northern Ireland online](https://online.hscni.net/)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Use routine and preventive healthcare**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Use routine and preventive healthcare", "source": "services/access-eye-care.md", "title": "Access eye care within Use routine and preventive healthcare" }, "process": { "id": "use-routine-and-preventive-healthcare", "route": "enclosing-process/use-routine-and-preventive-healthcare", "title": "Use routine and preventive healthcare" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-dental-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-dental-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access dental care" }, { "id": "get-prescription", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-prescription", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a prescription" }, { "id": "get-sexual-and-reproductive-healthcare", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-sexual-and-reproductive-healthcare", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get sexual and reproductive healthcare" }, { "id": "get-vaccination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-vaccination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a vaccination" }, { "id": "register-with-gp", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-with-gp", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register with a GP" }, { "id": "use-pharmacy-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-pharmacy-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use pharmacy services" }, { "id": "use-screening-service", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-screening-service", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a screening service" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/72d7d8e06155ee7db05d6b6a", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/13d20cf6bea74ca278133397" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/access-eye-care", "situations": [ "A person needs a sight test, optical service or assessment of an eye problem." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_eye_care_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "access-eye-care-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose an eye condition, decide eligibility, quote a charge or establish devolved routes." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8f325fb988d67c886a08b6b2", "resource_id": "resource:access-eye-care:access-eye-care-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-eye-care-access-eye-care-primary", "summary": "Routes England users to sight tests, optical services and NHS help-with-costs information.", "title": "Opticians and sight tests", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/opticians/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_health_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "health-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, triage or establish the correct service for an individual situation." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS 24", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/346af58b7df35bc2ef542255", "resource_id": "resource:access-eye-care:health-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-eye-care-health-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current NHS Scotland primary, community, urgent and specialist services.", "title": "NHS services in Scotland", "url": "https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/" }, { "authority_role": "wales_health_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "health-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not replace emergency services or establish that NHS England routes apply in Wales." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Ambulance Services NHS University Trust", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5a6dd3427a61e56ec914a4a4", "resource_id": "resource:access-eye-care:health-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-eye-care-health-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current NHS Wales service, symptom and urgent-care information.", "title": "NHS 111 Wales", "url": "https://111.wales.nhs.uk/" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_health_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "health-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, triage or establish the responsible trust for an individual situation." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department of Health Northern Ireland", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/75e32ede2eadcad10a4e4706", "resource_id": "resource:access-eye-care:health-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-eye-care-health-northern-ireland-handoff", 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c8917073b03d234eddb0bce9", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e22f2ddc072cb61ef808c197", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5bec3f9ef42185736796d9c3", "resource_route": "resource/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-primary", "source_id": "access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/22467f450442f3e1277fbc27", "resource_route": "resource/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-before-birth-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b1044748b9b6cd925dbef132", "resource_route": "resource/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-before-birth-wales-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/969177f7d5228f34b709a195", "resource_route": "resource/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-primary", "before-birth-scotland-handoff", "before-birth-wales-handoff", "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/df009ac46a88b56dbb8b8810", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/34f3d2a0aa91f403c7f78757" }, "route": "service-episode/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f0ece16ecdec1fae8244fef4", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b2df49a0b82dcf4b7d792acf", "resource_route": "resource/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-primary", "source_id": "access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/40ea8348e8ce83c643d0de6c", "resource_route": "resource/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-before-birth-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/601c9c51d4ba5d3630a54eb3", "resource_route": "resource/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-before-birth-wales-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2d088b3172b256504d7a4ee8", "resource_route": "resource/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-primary", "before-birth-scotland-handoff", "before-birth-wales-handoff", "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "access-fertility-and-reproductive-health", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Access fertility and reproductive health\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support** in the **Before birth and starting a family** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind the current fertility or reproductive-health assessment and treatment route without assuming eligibility or clinical outcome.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: IVF](https://www.nhs.uk/tests-and-treatments/ivf/)\n- [Scotland: Having a baby in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family/children-parenting/having-baby)\n- [Wales: Children and families in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/children-families)\n- [Northern Ireland: Family, home and community in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/family-home-and-community)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support", "source": "services/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health.md", "title": "Access fertility and reproductive health within Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support" }, "process": { "id": "pregnancy-maternity-and-workplace-support", "route": "enclosing-process/pregnancy-maternity-and-workplace-support", "title": "Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-maternity-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-maternity-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Maternity Allowance" }, { "id": "get-healthy-start-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-healthy-start-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Healthy Start support" }, { "id": "get-pregnancy-workplace-protection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-pregnancy-workplace-protection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get pregnancy workplace protection" }, { "id": "receive-maternity-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-maternity-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive maternity care" }, { "id": "start-antenatal-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-antenatal-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start antenatal care" }, { "id": "take-maternity-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-maternity-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take maternity leave" }, { "id": "take-paternity-or-partner-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-paternity-or-partner-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take paternity or partner leave" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b796399a7e78f9c5f98217dc", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5587d925f01671ec2c8b2f8d" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health", "situations": [ "A person wants advice, assessment or treatment relating to fertility or reproductive health." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_fertility_treatment_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, funding or outcome for an individual." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/24ec2179c445480a63e5b27b", "resource_id": "resource:access-fertility-and-reproductive-health:access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-primary", "summary": "Explains the England NHS pathway into IVF information, assessment and treatment considerations.", "title": "IVF", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/tests-and-treatments/ivf/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_pregnancy_and_parenting_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "before-birth-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3a29ffd8f699ba2f79ca388d", "resource_id": "resource:access-fertility-and-reproductive-health:before-birth-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-before-birth-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Scotland to current pregnancy, birth and early-parenting services and support.", "title": "Having a baby in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family/children-parenting/having-baby" }, { "authority_role": "wales_children_and_families_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "before-birth-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0b95ee0d637a97eea501b57d", "resource_id": "resource:access-fertility-and-reproductive-health:before-birth-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-before-birth-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Wales to current children, family, pregnancy and early-years policy and services.", "title": "Children and families in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/children-families" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_family_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c0130adf36f61b01676e2366", "resource_id": "resource:access-fertility-and-reproductive-health:before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Northern Ireland to current family, pregnancy, birth and local support services.", "title": "Family, home and community in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/family-home-and-community" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Access fertility and reproductive health", "user_needs": [ "Find the accountable 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"resource/access-health-visiting-early-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f3783a94f1d8d762456be9af", "resource_route": "resource/access-health-visiting-early-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/98ae61b53fda2a9407cfa190", "resource_route": "resource/access-health-visiting-early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/access-health-visiting-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "access-health-visiting-primary", 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referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/17537ac7a06bd06f61034ed8", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f3777e2611ecce977d48a577", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1bb71d0f1511af3ba2d15f4a", "resource_route": "resource/access-health-visiting-access-health-visiting-primary", "source_id": "access-health-visiting-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9e3e655095491b539b6fcfe4", "resource_route": "resource/access-health-visiting-early-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/997af6d096f6aa43ae615292", "resource_route": "resource/access-health-visiting-early-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3b77b3dd5dbba397c6d0fe49", "resource_route": "resource/access-health-visiting-early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/access-health-visiting-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "access-health-visiting-primary", "early-years-scotland-handoff", "early-years-wales-handoff", "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/71aa649863e96fb9aa06560e", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2a992b5312eaf1fb6f01e7a7" }, "route": "service-episode/access-health-visiting-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7a756e7e166886c34e238436", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6d739f6a6fee46ef3a261081", "resource_route": "resource/access-health-visiting-access-health-visiting-primary", "source_id": "access-health-visiting-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/af779169aee951f2d658ae81", "resource_route": "resource/access-health-visiting-early-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d9bbeaf2c483145d9734b3c1", "resource_route": "resource/access-health-visiting-early-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dceddb33975f82284f3d3261", "resource_route": "resource/access-health-visiting-early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/access-health-visiting-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "access-health-visiting-primary", "early-years-scotland-handoff", "early-years-wales-handoff", "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "access-health-visiting", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Access health visiting\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Support early development and safety** in the **Early years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nConnect a family to the current health-visiting or child-health review route after the midwifery handoff.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Your baby's health and development reviews](https://www.nhs.uk/baby/babys-development/height-weight-and-reviews/baby-reviews/)\n- [Scotland: Help with childcare costs in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/childcare-costs-help)\n- [Wales: Childcare in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/childcare)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Support early development and safety**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Support early development and safety", "source": "services/access-health-visiting.md", "title": "Access health visiting within Support early development and safety" }, "process": { "id": "support-early-development-and-safety", "route": "enclosing-process/support-early-development-and-safety", "title": "Support early development and safety" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-adoption-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-adoption-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for adoption support" }, { "id": "get-early-years-development-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-early-years-development-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get early-years development support" }, { "id": "get-early-years-send-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-early-years-send-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get early-years SEND support" }, { "id": "report-child-safeguarding-concern", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-child-safeguarding-concern", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a child safeguarding concern" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3dd07d4a42b405395b71c97b", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/861ecf8077798ca9fab09a85" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/access-health-visiting", "situations": [ "A parent or carer needs routine child-health, development or family-support contact in the early years." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_child_health_review_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "access-health-visiting-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, assess safeguarding risk, select a local team or replace urgent clinical care." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5038e7b44fecbec90e8de852", "resource_id": "resource:access-health-visiting:access-health-visiting-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-health-visiting-access-health-visiting-primary", "summary": "Explains routine England NHS child-health and development reviews and the health-visitor handoff.", "title": "Your baby's health and development reviews", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/baby/babys-development/height-weight-and-reviews/baby-reviews/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_childcare_support_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove a separate development, health, safeguarding, library or registration rule." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/255f7a4d1b178429bd952e97", "resource_id": "resource:access-health-visiting:early-years-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-health-visiting-early-years-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes families in Scotland to current funded childcare and childcare-cost support.", "title": "Help with childcare costs in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/childcare-costs-help" }, { "authority_role": "wales_childcare_and_early_years_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/97bb17f6799b4c01ef04ee66", "resource_id": "resource:access-health-visiting:early-years-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-health-visiting-early-years-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes families and providers in Wales to current childcare and early-years information.", "title": "Childcare in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/childcare" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_early_years_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e3990b9db2e0c6bc00e1f0c1", "resource_id": "resource:access-health-visiting:early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-health-visiting-early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Northern Ireland to current education, childcare and early-years services.", "title": "Education in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Access health visiting", "user_needs": [ "Find the responsible local health team and know where urgent or specialist concerns are escalated." ] }, { "aliases": [ "mental health support", "crisis mental health help", "talking therapies" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "access-mental-healthcare-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "access-mental-healthcare-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "health-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "health-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "health-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "health-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "health-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Select the routine, self-referral, urgent or emergency mental-health route for the nation and contact the current responsible service.", "domain": { "id": "health-throughout-life", "route": "life-course-domain/health-throughout-life", "title": "Health throughout life" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person needs information, assessment, treatment or urgent support for mental health.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Select the routine, self-referral, urgent or emergency mental-health route for the nation and contact the current responsible service.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/794c7be66146ddd0b3084c55", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1de9daea0169dbf0ce175278" }, "route": "service-episode/access-mental-healthcare-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6f7a13d511171055d8f3c629", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/492b6c225ffd37a5e6be7fec", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4f0a4701c3edde48fb40ae5a", "resource_route": "resource/access-mental-healthcare-access-mental-healthcare-primary", "source_id": "access-mental-healthcare-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b2c032b60ad75090a2733ae0", "resource_route": "resource/access-mental-healthcare-health-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "health-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/24d23de07a62797aa5a623af", "resource_route": "resource/access-mental-healthcare-health-wales-handoff", "source_id": "health-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e209637c06ac113ee207c203", "resource_route": "resource/access-mental-healthcare-health-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "health-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/access-mental-healthcare-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "access-mental-healthcare-primary", "health-scotland-handoff", "health-wales-handoff", "health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to access mental healthcare and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Select the routine, self-referral, urgent or emergency mental-health route for the nation and contact the current responsible service." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/75213e33d31eb94e0ebe760c", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/578fa319687f59e8412e41bb", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4ef68d9c9851235830ea1c54", "resource_route": "resource/access-mental-healthcare-access-mental-healthcare-primary", "source_id": "access-mental-healthcare-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f1a91302cbb84741a915c3ec", "resource_route": "resource/access-mental-healthcare-health-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "health-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/edd1db042e6affb11c202e89", "resource_route": "resource/access-mental-healthcare-health-wales-handoff", "source_id": "health-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0813f5340b360264d3381678", "resource_route": "resource/access-mental-healthcare-health-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "health-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/access-mental-healthcare-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "access-mental-healthcare-primary", "health-scotland-handoff", "health-wales-handoff", "health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/03bc55d652041cf70f337935", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1c07a9886366f4321edc1088" }, "route": "service-episode/access-mental-healthcare-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/77316f1c7e1d01cd60fb5db1", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a204eb4b974f0dab71a1af52", "resource_route": "resource/access-mental-healthcare-access-mental-healthcare-primary", "source_id": "access-mental-healthcare-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/035a33bca4e0f314b4e85fc8", "resource_route": "resource/access-mental-healthcare-health-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "health-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a3163e8e30b6effdcc8266d9", "resource_route": "resource/access-mental-healthcare-health-wales-handoff", "source_id": "health-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8d4463719919d7935e0929a8", "resource_route": "resource/access-mental-healthcare-health-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "health-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/access-mental-healthcare-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "access-mental-healthcare-primary", "health-scotland-handoff", "health-wales-handoff", "health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "access-mental-healthcare", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Access mental healthcare\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Use specialist, urgent and health-redress routes** in the **Health throughout life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSelect the routine, self-referral, urgent or emergency mental-health route for the nation and contact the current responsible service.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: NHS mental health services](https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/mental-health-services/)\n- [Scotland: NHS services in Scotland](https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/)\n- [Wales: NHS 111 Wales](https://111.wales.nhs.uk/)\n- [Northern Ireland: Health and Social Care Northern Ireland online](https://online.hscni.net/)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Use specialist, urgent and health-redress routes**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Use specialist, urgent and health-redress routes", "source": "services/access-mental-healthcare.md", "title": "Access mental healthcare within Use specialist, urgent and health-redress routes" }, "process": { "id": "use-specialist-urgent-and-health-redress-routes", "route": "enclosing-process/use-specialist-urgent-and-health-redress-routes", "title": "Use specialist, urgent and health-redress routes" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "complain-about-nhs-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/complain-about-nhs-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Complain about NHS care" }, { "id": "receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive hospital referral and treatment" }, { "id": "use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use urgent and emergency health services" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/309850bcddf150bb57d24de9", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/68d0d4237d4f48615dac683c" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/access-mental-healthcare", "situations": [ "A person needs information, assessment, treatment or urgent support for mental health." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_mental_health_service_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "access-mental-healthcare-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, assess risk, provide crisis support or establish devolved services." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c19adc70b60af04cf772e94f", "resource_id": "resource:access-mental-healthcare:access-mental-healthcare-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-mental-healthcare-access-mental-healthcare-primary", "summary": "Routes England users to urgent help, talking therapies and specialist mental-health services.", "title": "NHS mental health services", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/mental-health-services/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_health_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "health-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, triage or establish the correct service for an individual situation." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS 24", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c8f555232fcceb000141295e", "resource_id": "resource:access-mental-healthcare:health-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-mental-healthcare-health-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current NHS Scotland primary, community, urgent and specialist services.", "title": "NHS services in Scotland", "url": "https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/" }, { "authority_role": "wales_health_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "health-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not replace emergency services or establish that NHS England routes apply in Wales." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Ambulance Services NHS University Trust", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9ddd4ed6c430868185f627b7", "resource_id": "resource:access-mental-healthcare:health-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-mental-healthcare-health-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current NHS Wales service, symptom and urgent-care information.", "title": "NHS 111 Wales", "url": "https://111.wales.nhs.uk/" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_health_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "health-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, triage or establish the responsible trust for an individual situation." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department of Health Northern Ireland", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f34acb65a0b80df017142a8b", "resource_id": "resource:access-mental-healthcare:health-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-mental-healthcare-health-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland health and social-care organisations and services.", "title": "Health and Social Care Northern Ireland online", "url": "https://online.hscni.net/" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Access mental healthcare", "user_needs": [ "Recognise urgent boundaries and find the 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"service-step/access-mobility-support-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "access-mobility-support-primary", "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "disability-care-wales-handoff", "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to access mobility support and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Identify the relevant benefit, concession, vehicle, parking or assisted-travel route and apply through the responsible authority or regulated scheme." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/141080eb5498535d7477404a", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/aa557be53769a6c64be65220", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/eb03385b2b53b596e6eb83e8", "resource_route": "resource/access-mobility-support-access-mobility-support-primary", "source_id": "access-mobility-support-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/41951754076b37ac6d5539fa", "resource_route": "resource/access-mobility-support-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/878a0bce6019af87f759b5c6", "resource_route": "resource/access-mobility-support-disability-care-wales-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/40d12e0ae85c36a2cbd9560d", "resource_route": "resource/access-mobility-support-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current 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"state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/73ad8a329fc614ec6d2d2ac4", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3bdf12f1047d2d3958fe270a", "resource_route": "resource/access-mobility-support-access-mobility-support-primary", "source_id": "access-mobility-support-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7506e4d635215b4dd51d6372", "resource_route": "resource/access-mobility-support-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8f2fef857592e05711006dda", "resource_route": "resource/access-mobility-support-disability-care-wales-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5f12f9a99dd47bdc5fc99825", "resource_route": "resource/access-mobility-support-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/access-mobility-support-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "access-mobility-support-primary", "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "disability-care-wales-handoff", "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "access-mobility-support", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Access mobility support\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress** in the **Disability, care and support** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the relevant benefit, concession, vehicle, parking or assisted-travel route and apply through the responsible authority or regulated scheme.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Vehicles and transport for disabled people](https://www.gov.uk/financial-help-disabled/vehicles-and-transport)\n- [Scotland: Health and social care in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/health-social-care)\n- [Wales: Social care in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/social-care)\n- [Northern Ireland: Caring for someone in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/caring-someone)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress", "source": "services/access-mobility-support.md", "title": "Access mobility support within Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress" }, "process": { "id": "safeguard-capacity-mobility-and-care-redress", "route": "enclosing-process/safeguard-capacity-mobility-and-care-redress", "title": "Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-supported-decision-representation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-supported-decision-representation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange supported decision representation" }, { "id": "challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision", "sequenced": false, "title": "Challenge a care or disability-benefit decision" }, { "id": "get-mental-capacity-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-mental-capacity-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get mental-capacity support" }, { "id": "obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a workplace disability adjustment" }, { "id": "report-adult-safeguarding-concern", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-adult-safeguarding-concern", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report an adult safeguarding concern" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/64caf71d280f4edc1b7e99be", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4417c549fd36b7e0c0bf66f2" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/access-mobility-support", "situations": [ "A disabled person needs financial, vehicle or service support for mobility." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_disability_mobility_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "access-mobility-support-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine eligibility, recommend a vehicle or provider, or establish Northern Ireland routes." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Work and Pensions", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f78887fa9657fd46f50ca73c", "resource_id": "resource:access-mobility-support:access-mobility-support-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-mobility-support-access-mobility-support-primary", "summary": "Routes Great Britain users to vehicle, tax, parking and transport support information.", "title": "Vehicles and transport for disabled people", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/financial-help-disabled/vehicles-and-transport" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine eligibility, local provision, capacity, safeguarding action or redress." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b76ec1c83d01f218a75c927f", "resource_id": "resource:access-mobility-support:disability-care-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-mobility-support-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish disability, care, capacity, support and benefit services.", "title": "Health and social care in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/health-social-care" }, { "authority_role": "wales_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify an individual local authority route or decide eligibility or safeguarding action." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8cb478fdd5953817190a3d80", "resource_id": "resource:access-mobility-support:disability-care-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-mobility-support-disability-care-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh social-care policy and applicable local service information.", "title": "Social care in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/social-care" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify every trust service or decide eligibility, capacity or safeguarding action." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/45ee3086df0680105eb8d245", "resource_id": "resource:access-mobility-support:disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-mobility-support-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland carer, disability, benefit and care information.", "title": "Caring for someone in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/caring-someone" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Access mobility support", "user_needs": [ "Navigate separate schemes without combining their eligibility or provider identities." ] }, { "aliases": [ "special care baby unit", "care for premature or ill baby" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "access-neonatal-care-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": 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"entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2e97c2ad2636e61dfefef191", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5c166d52767f386549e3a27d" }, "route": "service-episode/access-neonatal-care-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d9abd3b68c5d68487ff2dc56", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0464005051dd2183045baca7", "resource_route": "resource/access-neonatal-care-access-neonatal-care-primary", "source_id": "access-neonatal-care-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c3678ae4d83fb7d4d28fd844", "resource_route": "resource/access-neonatal-care-birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0d4d4dba8f5268df15dcb4af", "resource_route": "resource/access-neonatal-care-birth-newborn-wales-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f1663b54c16b5a53edf66496", "resource_route": "resource/access-neonatal-care-birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/access-neonatal-care-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "access-neonatal-care-primary", "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "birth-newborn-wales-handoff", "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "access-neonatal-care", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Access neonatal care\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Start newborn healthcare** in the **Birth and the newborn period** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUnderstand the hospital and specialist handoff when a newborn needs special, high-dependency or intensive care.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Special care for ill or premature babies](https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/labour-and-birth/special-care-ill-or-premature-babies/)\n- [Scotland: Register a birth in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/register-birth)\n- [Wales: Children and families in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/children-families)\n- [Northern Ireland: Registering and naming your baby](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/registering-and-naming-your-baby)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Start newborn healthcare**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Start newborn healthcare", "source": "services/access-neonatal-care.md", "title": "Access neonatal care within Start newborn healthcare" }, "process": { "id": "start-newborn-healthcare", "route": "enclosing-process/start-newborn-healthcare", "title": "Start newborn healthcare" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-newborn-screening", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-newborn-screening", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange newborn screening" }, { "id": "register-newborn-with-health-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-newborn-with-health-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a newborn with health services" }, { "id": "start-childhood-vaccinations", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-childhood-vaccinations", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start childhood vaccinations" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/35adc9f746bde8f716f2b7f4", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/66ebc98c8918fb360c3b22a3" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/access-neonatal-care", "situations": [ "A baby is premature, unwell or needs specialist care after birth." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_neonatal_care_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "access-neonatal-care-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, triage, choose a unit, recommend treatment or replace the clinical team." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a9fd5d9df9c609d0bafb93bc", "resource_id": "resource:access-neonatal-care:access-neonatal-care-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-neonatal-care-access-neonatal-care-primary", "summary": "Explains England NHS neonatal-unit roles and family information for babies needing special care.", "title": "Special care for ill or premature babies", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/labour-and-birth/special-care-ill-or-premature-babies/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_birth_registration_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove another newborn family's clinical, benefit, passport or nationality rules." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7471bc0e2bcba2c66bd54dbf", "resource_id": "resource:access-neonatal-care:birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-neonatal-care-birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Scotland through the current birth-registration service and its local registrar handoff.", "title": "Register a birth in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/register-birth" }, { "authority_role": "wales_birth_and_newborn_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "birth-newborn-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/66da34727221d4bd07981193", "resource_id": "resource:access-neonatal-care:birth-newborn-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-neonatal-care-birth-newborn-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Wales to current birth, newborn, parenting and family-service material.", "title": "Children and families in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/children-families" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_birth_and_newborn_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove every newborn health, benefit, passport or nationality rule." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/541c43662502b6197a6fa3f8", "resource_id": "resource:access-neonatal-care:birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-neonatal-care-birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Explains Northern Ireland birth registration and the registration-card handoff into GP registration.", "title": "Registering and naming your baby", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/registering-and-naming-your-baby" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Access neonatal care", "user_needs": [ "Find current clinical and family-support information while decisions remain with the neonatal team." ] }, { "aliases": [ "palliative care support", "hospice care", "end of life NHS help" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "later-life-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "later-life-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "later-life-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "later-life-wales-handoff" ], 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"later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Access palliative or end-of-life care\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Arrange later-life care and future decisions** in the **Later life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nContact the responsible clinical team for assessment and coordination of symptom, practical, emotional and family support, using urgent services when needed.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: End of life care](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/end-of-life-care/)\n- [Scotland: Benefits in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/benefits)\n- [Wales: Social care in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/social-care)\n- [Northern Ireland: Pensions and retirement planning](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/pensions-and-retirement-planning)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Arrange later-life care and future decisions**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Arrange later-life care and future decisions", "source": "services/access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care.md", "title": "Access palliative or end-of-life care within Arrange later-life care and future decisions" }, "process": { "id": "arrange-later-life-care-and-future-decisions", "route": "enclosing-process/arrange-later-life-care-and-future-decisions", "title": "Arrange later-life care and future decisions" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-carer-support-in-later-life", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-carer-support-in-later-life", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get carer support in later life" }, { "id": "get-housing-adaptation-in-later-life", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-housing-adaptation-in-later-life", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a housing adaptation in later life" }, { "id": "get-social-care-in-later-life", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-social-care-in-later-life", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get social care in later life" }, { "id": "make-advance-care-plan", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/make-advance-care-plan", "sequenced": false, "title": "Make an advance care plan" }, { "id": "make-lasting-power-of-attorney", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/make-lasting-power-of-attorney", "sequenced": false, "title": "Make a lasting power of attorney" }, { "id": "make-will", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/make-will", "sequenced": false, "title": "Make a will" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/546157e70b1bee8d326752e8", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/335a9109ac0f7eb724910d98" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care", "situations": [ "A person has an advanced or life-limiting condition and may need palliative or end-of-life care." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_end_of_life_care_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish devolved provision, diagnose, predict prognosis, triage or recommend treatment or a provider." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ad060a2ff7644e4742d7a1ad", "resource_id": "resource:access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care:access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care-access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care-primary", "summary": "Introduces England palliative and end-of-life care, planning and support routes.", "title": "End of life care", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/end-of-life-care/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_later_life_benefit_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "later-life-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide entitlement, pension, care, legal planning or health needs." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": 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"northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Find the current school-health or clinical route for a child's health need during the school years.", "domain": { "id": "school-years", "route": "life-course-domain/school-years", "title": "School years" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A child or family needs preventive", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Find the current school-health or clinical route for a child's health need during the school years.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/be4a4cb4e3ac742da21fd93b", "family_episode": 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"assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to access school health support and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Find the current school-health or clinical route for a child's health need during the school years." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b991f0f14f9182de913bf0ca", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bffda1423eb023e00706d8c9", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2e175f54ab5d7af0600c6088", "resource_route": "resource/access-school-health-access-school-health-primary", "source_id": "access-school-health-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/161a69ede71674bc0648908d", "resource_route": "resource/access-school-health-school-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fbaef502c3e7ce898f6c0629", "resource_route": "resource/access-school-health-school-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": 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"entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e85cb85be99c394ab17b102b", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5276084528f0befd52ea5028" }, "route": "service-episode/access-school-health-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/727f05309ccbb02e43ae73f9", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/13f35dcf7421668bebb6f6b6", "resource_route": "resource/access-school-health-access-school-health-primary", "source_id": "access-school-health-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/36ad6b3b0ab5b223fb2de990", "resource_route": "resource/access-school-health-school-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/98acf4b8008a502e26150515", "resource_route": "resource/access-school-health-school-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/72d7b658b512cd5c1d03b422", "resource_route": "resource/access-school-health-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/access-school-health-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "access-school-health-primary", "school-years-scotland-handoff", "school-years-wales-handoff", "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "access-school-health", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Access school health support\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Receive school support and outcomes** in the **School years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind the current school-health or clinical route for a child's health need during the school years.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Is my child too ill for school?](https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/is-my-child-too-ill-for-school/)\n- [Scotland: School education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Receive school support and outcomes**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Receive school support and outcomes", "source": "services/access-school-health.md", "title": "Access school health support within Receive school support and outcomes" }, "process": { "id": "receive-school-support-and-outcomes", "route": "enclosing-process/receive-school-support-and-outcomes", "title": "Receive school support and outcomes" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "challenge-school-exclusion", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/challenge-school-exclusion", "sequenced": false, "title": "Challenge a school exclusion" }, { "id": "get-school-send-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-school-send-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get school SEND support" }, { "id": "report-school-safeguarding-concern", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-school-safeguarding-concern", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a school safeguarding concern" }, { "id": "sit-public-examinations", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/sit-public-examinations", "sequenced": false, "title": "Sit public examinations" }, { "id": "support-child-in-care-education", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/support-child-in-care-education", "sequenced": false, "title": "Support a child in care in education" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8439aab9bb331351d23cddf0", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5a6e9911285b2da33777f4bf" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/access-school-health", "situations": [ "A child or family needs preventive, routine or condition-related health support connected with school." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_school_health_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "access-school-health-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, assess urgency or replace the child's clinician or school-health service." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3e9d04e3386858aa06721a96", "resource_id": "resource:access-school-health:access-school-health-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-school-health-access-school-health-primary", "summary": "Provides an England NHS handoff for common illness, school attendance and clinical help.", "title": "Is my child too ill for school?", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/is-my-child-too-ill-for-school/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5a0943117320bb599e295885", "resource_id": "resource:access-school-health:school-years-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-school-health-school-years-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish school education services and support.", "title": "School education in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/374498e96922bdbb8a9fdac0", "resource_id": "resource:access-school-health:school-years-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-school-health-school-years-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh education services, policy and support.", "title": "Education and skills in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/education-skills" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d7e4e76dc0eaf1af02ee001d", "resource_id": "resource:access-school-health:school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/access-school-health-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland education services and support.", "title": "Education in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Access school health support", "user_needs": [ "Identify the accountable health and school contact without relying on the bundle for clinical advice." ] }, { "aliases": [ "probate", "confirmation in Scotland", "letters of administration", "executor duties", "deal with an estate" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England and Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-wales-probate", "primary_source": "govuk-applying-for-probate", "provider": "organisation:hm-courts-and-tribunals-service" } ], "source_ids": [ "govuk-applying-for-probate", "govuk-value-estate", "govuk-probate-estate", "govuk-inheritance-tax" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-confirmation", "primary_source": "scotcourts-confirmation", "provider": "organisation:scottish-courts-and-tribunals-service" } ], "source_ids": [ "govuk-value-estate", "govuk-inheritance-tax", "govscot-after-a-death", "scotcourts-confirmation" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-probate", "primary_source": "nidirect-apply-probate", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-courts-and-tribunals-service" } ], "source_ids": [ "nidirect-apply-probate", "nidirect-no-will", "nidirect-debt-after-death" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Identify the applicable estate-authority route and navigate the evidence, tax, debt, asset and distribution boundaries without deciding entitlement.", "domain": { "id": "death-and-bereavement", "route": "life-course-domain/death-and-bereavement", "title": "Death and bereavement" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A synthetic will or no-will context and preliminary estate information are available.", "id": "establish-authority-and-administer", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Authority, 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a9cd2cdd9e2fb29426ec750e", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/34c1da87d397df012147f2e0", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/22e4b524aecd9a743a00f4c2", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5360a7abfbc475eddbec8de9", "resource_route": "resource/administer-an-estate-govuk-value-estate", "source_id": "govuk-value-estate" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ef467ef52e41b31c2ab153ca", "resource_route": "resource/administer-an-estate-govuk-inheritance-tax", "source_id": "govuk-inheritance-tax" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/376afe1f3500b050dd1b1100", "resource_route": "resource/administer-an-estate-govuk-applying-for-probate", "source_id": "govuk-applying-for-probate" }, { "assertion_id": 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9cd1e2f49c7f3f70828edf33", "resource_route": "resource/administer-an-estate-govuk-applying-for-probate", "source_id": "govuk-applying-for-probate" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/51a7e6d226a6bb7838c4420b", "resource_route": "resource/administer-an-estate-govscot-after-a-death", "source_id": "govscot-after-a-death" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d00965a2b2986d8fb28fbf05", "resource_route": "resource/administer-an-estate-nidirect-no-will", "source_id": "nidirect-no-will" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/490c7933386b72e7afc550ba", "resource_route": "resource/administer-an-estate-nidirect-debt-after-death", "source_id": "nidirect-debt-after-death" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Actual estate documents and unresolved question." }, "route": "service-step/administer-an-estate-no-will-debt-dispute-cross-border-or-missing-evidence-stop-and-seek-applicable-authority", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The bundle does not resolve legal authority, insolvency or entitlement." }, "source_ids": [ "govuk-applying-for-probate", "govscot-after-a-death", "nidirect-no-will", "nidirect-debt-after-death" ], "time": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Make any official deadline visible without calculating advice." } } ], "title": "No will debt dispute cross border or missing evidence" } ], "id": "administer-an-estate", "interaction_boundary": "Discovery and process overview only; no decision is made about grant need, applicant authority, tax, insolvency, distribution or beneficiary entitlement.", "limitations": [ "Specialist legal and tax review is required before release-grade status.", "Current court, tax, creditor and professional routes override this overview." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Administer an estate\n\nThis normalized family distinguishes an England and Wales grant of\nrepresentation, Scottish confirmation and a Northern Ireland grant. It also\nseparates the authority document from later asset, debt, tax and distribution\nwork.\n\nThe implementations are the [England and Wales probate route](generated/browser/services/england-wales-probate-estate.html),\n[Scottish confirmation route](generated/browser/services/scotland-confirmation-estate.html) and\n[Northern Ireland probate route](generated/browser/services/northern-ireland-probate-estate.html). The bundle\ndoes not decide whether a grant is required, who may apply, tax liability,\ninsolvency, a dispute or a beneficiary's entitlement.", "process_context": "Identify and administer an estate", "source": "services/administer-an-estate.md", "title": "Administer an estate within Identify and administer an estate" }, "process": { "id": "identify-and-administer-an-estate", "route": "enclosing-process/identify-and-administer-an-estate", "title": "Identify and administer an estate" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "locate-or-prove-will", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/locate-or-prove-will", "sequenced": false, "title": "Locate or prove a will" }, { "id": "notify-private-organisations-after-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/notify-private-organisations-after-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Notify private organisations after death" }, { "id": "pay-inheritance-tax", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/pay-inheritance-tax", "sequenced": false, "title": "Pay Inheritance Tax" }, { "id": "settle-estate-debts", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/settle-estate-debts", "sequenced": false, "title": "Settle estate debts" }, { "id": "update-property-records-after-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/update-property-records-after-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Update property records after death" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0f433c0cc285891fe540f3b5", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/65147b55c12a737943a4e82d" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/administer-an-estate", "situations": [ "An executor or administrator needs authority to deal with an estate.", "The estate may have no will, debts, tax, cross-border assets or 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"https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/arrange-the-funeral" }, { "authority_role": "england_wales_probate_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "govuk-applying-for-probate", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England and Wales" ], "limitations": [ "different rules apply in Scotland and Northern Ireland; no case-specific legal decision" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "HM Courts and Tribunals Service", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5c2b77566212681246972d98", "resource_id": "resource:administer-an-estate:govuk-applying-for-probate", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/administer-an-estate-govuk-applying-for-probate", "summary": "England and Wales probate need, application, will and no-will branches", "title": "England and Wales probate need, application, will and no-will branches", "url": 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inventory and will or no-will branches in Scotland", "url": "https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/taking-action/dealing-with-a-deceaseds-estate-in-scotland/guide-to-dealing-with-a-deceaseds-estate-in-scotland" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_funeral_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "nidirect-arranging-funeral", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [], "limitations": [ "not a provider recommendation and no entitlement or funding decision" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 7, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e740fffff13d4f8bc3ffe665", "resource_id": "resource:administer-an-estate:nidirect-arranging-funeral", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/administer-an-estate-nidirect-arranging-funeral", "summary": "Northern Ireland registration, funeral-provider, payment and probate dependencies", "title": "Northern Ireland registration, funeral-provider, payment and probate dependencies", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/arranging-funeral" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_probate_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "nidirect-apply-probate", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "individual authority, application validity and outcome remain with the Probate Office" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service", "position": 8, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c4842592f0f500d49538a24f", "resource_id": "resource:administer-an-estate:nidirect-apply-probate", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/administer-an-estate-nidirect-apply-probate", "summary": "Northern Ireland grant-of-representation 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"supported", "summary": "Start with the responsible adoption agency, complete its assessment and approvals and use the applicable court route for the legal order." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e04cb588637aa865d7e71924", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c9fa8d89982c8d6102b227c4", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d1419aaf8b646959b7380218", "resource_route": "resource/adopt-child-adopt-child-primary", "source_id": "adopt-child-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e874560020c37e5e21697008", "resource_route": "resource/adopt-child-family-change-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7d6d42c973b9ce67a658f2a5", "resource_route": "resource/adopt-child-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/adopt-child-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "adopt-child-primary", "family-change-scotland-handoff", "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/657262f2053693d4cf3424a7", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0f5c3ecc46cc4ba49e436294" }, "route": "service-episode/adopt-child-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3463f3881dc7cbdfe89a1808", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b3da01a1f81e676cc9c80128", "resource_route": "resource/adopt-child-adopt-child-primary", "source_id": "adopt-child-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e98e06a0b58d4a0568edef8f", "resource_route": "resource/adopt-child-family-change-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f63a10f6ddd8adb10faad56c", "resource_route": "resource/adopt-child-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/adopt-child-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "adopt-child-primary", "family-change-scotland-handoff", "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "adopt-child", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Adopt a child\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Form, change and support family relationships** in the **Relationships and family change** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nStart with the responsible adoption agency, complete its assessment and approvals and use the applicable court route for the legal order.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Child adoption](https://www.gov.uk/child-adoption)\n- [Scotland: Births, deaths and family in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family)\n- [Wales: Child adoption](https://www.gov.uk/child-adoption)\n- [Northern Ireland: Find out your rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/find-out-your-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Form, change and support family relationships**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Form, change and support family relationships", "source": "services/adopt-child.md", "title": "Adopt a child within Form, change and support family relationships" }, "process": { "id": "form-change-and-support-family-relationships", "route": "enclosing-process/form-change-and-support-family-relationships", "title": "Form, change and support family relationships" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-child-maintenance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-child-maintenance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange child maintenance" }, { "id": "change-name", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/change-name", "sequenced": false, "title": "Change name" }, { "id": "divorce-or-dissolve-partnership", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/divorce-or-dissolve-partnership", "sequenced": false, "title": "Divorce or dissolve a partnership" }, { "id": "form-civil-partnership", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/form-civil-partnership", "sequenced": false, "title": "Form a civil partnership" }, { "id": "marry", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/marry", "sequenced": false, "title": "Marry" }, { "id": "resolve-parental-responsibility", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/resolve-parental-responsibility", "sequenced": false, "title": "Resolve parental responsibility" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b61851734dbac8dd72b9aa60", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7c9f810d54a7e5ee941bf56c" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/adopt-child", "situations": [ "A person or household is considering adopting a child." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_adoption_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "adopt-child-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess suitability, match a child, make an order or establish devolved procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6d3d0a8b753de5bf0e737071", "resource_id": "resource:adopt-child:adopt-child-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/adopt-child-adopt-child-primary", "summary": "Introduces England and Wales agency, assessment, matching and adoption-order stages.", "title": "Child adoption", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/child-adoption" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_family_change_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "family-change-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine status, legal rights, eligibility, safeguarding action or an individual court route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/caaa8c7984a102ccabb430bc", "resource_id": "resource:adopt-child:family-change-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/adopt-child-family-change-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish marriage, civil partnership, family, care and representation information.", "title": "Births, deaths and family in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_family_change_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish the applicable court, safeguarding, care or representation route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0adf91ac4dce54b6ea3144b9", "resource_id": "resource:adopt-child:family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/adopt-child-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Introduces Northern Ireland marriage, civil partnership, separation, parental-responsibility, family-safety and wider rights handoffs.", "title": "Find out your rights in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/find-out-your-rights" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Adopt a child", "user_needs": [ "Navigate agency assessment, matching, placement, court and post-adoption support boundaries." ] }, { "aliases": [ "challenge court judgment", "appeal tribunal outcome", "permission to appeal" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "police-legal-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Read the decision and named appeal route promptly, preserve the record and obtain specialist advice before using the applicable permission or appeal process.", "domain": { "id": "police-and-legal-services", "route": "life-course-domain/police-and-legal-services", "title": "Police and legal services" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A party wants a higher court or tribunal to review a decision.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Read the decision and named appeal route promptly, preserve the record and obtain specialist advice before using the applicable permission or appeal process.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2ec7aec07458bbe7b82c5026", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/917a3da576ea3f8121e17741" }, "route": "service-episode/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/75e6c7d36cf8eb3098a225c5", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ae13350d4111bd43e7350584", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/01fb682707932640c48409be", "resource_route": "resource/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-primary", "source_id": "appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5ff0914bc35e55f02606ad1c", "resource_route": "resource/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/287b10657c716a4bfa25403a", "resource_route": "resource/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-primary", "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to appeal a court or tribunal decision and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Read the decision and named appeal route promptly, preserve the record and obtain specialist advice before using the applicable permission or appeal process." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2967daf2478a957a2203dfc9", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f6a4de4d54a182876497ba47", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/60ff50509a5277a0e45e2ec7", "resource_route": "resource/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-primary", "source_id": "appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ddc8ca19360b02641e162230", "resource_route": "resource/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a58585a7b4f524ea29b0f73d", "resource_route": "resource/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-primary", "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0a79cd9629c7d8b2dbe2660d", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c7862bd381cbcd13179aae25" }, "route": "service-episode/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/801ec5f499c805f52776aef8", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3fc57b3fd377d8ff38647af8", "resource_route": "resource/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-primary", "source_id": "appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/736590417283b5ac7415cca8", "resource_route": "resource/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/73f7613235f5a4f109b64909", "resource_route": "resource/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-primary", "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Appeal a court or tribunal decision\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Obtain legal help and use adjudication** in the **Police and legal services** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nRead the decision and named appeal route promptly, preserve the record and obtain specialist advice before using the applicable permission or appeal process.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Appeal against a Crown Court conviction or sentence](https://www.gov.uk/appeal-against-sentence-conviction)\n- [Scotland: Crime, justice and the law in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/crime-justice-law)\n- [Wales: Appeal against a Crown Court conviction or sentence](https://www.gov.uk/appeal-against-sentence-conviction)\n- [Northern Ireland: Crime, justice and the law in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/crime-justice-and-law)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Obtain legal help and use adjudication**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Obtain legal help and use adjudication", "source": "services/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision.md", "title": "Appeal a court or tribunal decision within Obtain legal help and use adjudication" }, "process": { "id": "obtain-legal-help-and-use-adjudication", "route": "enclosing-process/obtain-legal-help-and-use-adjudication", "title": "Obtain legal help and use adjudication" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-legal-aid", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-legal-aid", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get legal aid" }, { "id": "obtain-police-station-legal-advice", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-police-station-legal-advice", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain police-station legal advice" }, { "id": "use-civil-or-family-court", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-civil-or-family-court", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a civil or family court" }, { "id": "use-tribunal", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-tribunal", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a tribunal" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4cbcd4da04ff9edc3fdbf30f", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/342d6cfe9ce7428f0ef9f93f" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision", "situations": [ "A party wants a higher court or tribunal to review a decision." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_criminal_appeal_example", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "It is not a generic route for every court or tribunal and the bundle does not calculate time or grounds." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "HM Courts and Tribunals Service", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1836ba875bf05dbf664a9566", "resource_id": "resource:appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision:appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-primary", "summary": "Shows one England and Wales appellate route and its permission, form and legal-help handoffs.", "title": "Appeal against a Crown Court conviction or sentence", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/appeal-against-sentence-conviction" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_police_legal_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not provide emergency response, legal advice or an individual court or appeal route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0e61c9cad97f012963d18521", "resource_id": "resource:appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision:police-legal-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish police, victim support, legal aid, courts and tribunal information.", "title": "Crime, justice and the law in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/crime-justice-law" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_police_legal_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "England, Wales and Scotland justice procedure does not establish Northern Ireland routes." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/69efccadf1bb58d4fa5b26ed", "resource_id": "resource:appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision:police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision-police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland policing, victims, legal help, courts and tribunal services.", "title": "Crime, justice and the law in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/crime-justice-and-law" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Appeal a court or tribunal decision", "user_needs": [ "Identify forum, permission, grounds and time boundaries without receiving legal advice or a merits prediction." ] }, { "aliases": [ "school place appeal", "challenge refused school admission" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "appeal-school-admission-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "appeal-school-admission-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "school-years-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "school-years-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "school-years-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "school-years-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Use the applicable independent appeal route after an admissions authority refuses a preferred school place.", "domain": { "id": "school-years", "route": "life-course-domain/school-years", "title": "School years" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A school-place application has been refused and the applicant wants the decision reviewed.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Use the applicable independent appeal route after an admissions authority refuses a preferred school place.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f76b373d203073f41a552258", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7bcb3014fdcf8655b0a6b37f" }, "route": "service-episode/appeal-school-admission-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No 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"sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/53789c8307a64b96d70ba759", "resource_route": "resource/appeal-school-admission-appeal-school-admission-primary", "source_id": "appeal-school-admission-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/43ad8db712e3e80a8b9ab561", "resource_route": "resource/appeal-school-admission-school-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d6dc04804c89d17e7f440582", "resource_route": "resource/appeal-school-admission-school-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/deb38a647dce40d2632cbdc6", "resource_route": "resource/appeal-school-admission-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/appeal-school-admission-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "appeal-school-admission-primary", "school-years-scotland-handoff", "school-years-wales-handoff", "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to appeal a school admission decision and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the applicable independent appeal route after an admissions authority refuses a preferred school place." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b373e61a258a9177a4db9ccf", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4677c8d95f21dec528400b7f", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/afcaffb15e050af3cdf64b9c", "resource_route": "resource/appeal-school-admission-appeal-school-admission-primary", "source_id": "appeal-school-admission-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f670ab0ba71ea93f4f47ae6e", "resource_route": "resource/appeal-school-admission-school-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/666a862c09128f31b9d07627", "resource_route": "resource/appeal-school-admission-school-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d929e105db6b45c4ae0f651a", "resource_route": "resource/appeal-school-admission-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/appeal-school-admission-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "appeal-school-admission-primary", "school-years-scotland-handoff", "school-years-wales-handoff", "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8bb50b92275a00467b6052e6", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/479ba516217dc4c91ef2dc77" }, "route": "service-episode/appeal-school-admission-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c901a8cf27324a55a39d402e", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ca3dd3a10a723d62d8f67a66", "resource_route": "resource/appeal-school-admission-appeal-school-admission-primary", "source_id": "appeal-school-admission-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1977d3822a7c59314ddf11be", "resource_route": "resource/appeal-school-admission-school-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8739d901042da14f9c193f63", "resource_route": "resource/appeal-school-admission-school-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8f7258921cbd5572245d1e00", "resource_route": "resource/appeal-school-admission-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/appeal-school-admission-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "appeal-school-admission-primary", "school-years-scotland-handoff", "school-years-wales-handoff", "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "appeal-school-admission", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Appeal a school admission decision\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter and attend school** in the **School years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the applicable independent appeal route after an admissions authority refuses a preferred school place.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Appealing a school's decision](https://www.gov.uk/schools-admissions/appealing-a-schools-decision)\n- [Scotland: School education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter and attend school**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter and attend school", "source": "services/appeal-school-admission.md", "title": "Appeal a school admission decision within Enter and attend school" }, "process": { "id": "enter-and-attend-school", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-and-attend-school", "title": "Enter and attend school" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-free-school-meals", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-free-school-meals", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for free school meals" }, { "id": "apply-for-school-place", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-school-place", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for a school place" }, { "id": "arrange-school-transport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-school-transport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange school transport" }, { "id": "choose-home-education", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/choose-home-education", "sequenced": false, "title": "Choose home education" }, { "id": "meet-school-attendance-duty", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/meet-school-attendance-duty", "sequenced": false, "title": "Meet school attendance duties" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5432db1c3fcc67de07875dd2", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f12505e2c3de6d655c9c8969" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/appeal-school-admission", "situations": [ "A school-place application has been refused and the applicant wants the decision reviewed." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_school_admission_appeal_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "appeal-school-admission-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not predict or decide an appeal." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/729b921286f0ede4c17fceb5", "resource_id": "resource:appeal-school-admission:appeal-school-admission-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/appeal-school-admission-appeal-school-admission-primary", "summary": "Explains the England school-admission appeal route and hearing boundary.", "title": "Appealing a school's decision", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/schools-admissions/appealing-a-schools-decision" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4020f5dbb4383b16503f5ad1", "resource_id": "resource:appeal-school-admission:school-years-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/appeal-school-admission-school-years-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish school education services and support.", "title": "School education in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/575ec1a15a9d4aa6d5d3b549", "resource_id": "resource:appeal-school-admission:school-years-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/appeal-school-admission-school-years-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh education services, policy and support.", "title": "Education and skills in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/education-skills" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c4076b7a3e19a5c053f1985f", "resource_id": "resource:appeal-school-admission:school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/appeal-school-admission-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland education services and support.", "title": "Education in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Appeal a school admission decision", "user_needs": [ "Find the appeal body, deadline, evidence boundary and decision route." ] }, { "aliases": [ "parking tribunal appeal", "traffic penalty adjudicator", "appeal rejected PCN" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "appeal-to-traffic-penalty-tribunal-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "appeal-to-traffic-penalty-tribunal-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { 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"interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Appeal to a traffic penalty tribunal\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution** in the **Transport enforcement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the tribunal named by the enforcement notice after the required authority stage and submit the evidence requested by that forum.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Challenge a parking ticket](https://www.gov.uk/parking-tickets/challenging-a-ticket)\n- [Scotland: Road safety, parking tickets, fines and bans in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport/penalty-points-fines)\n- [Wales: Challenge a parking ticket](https://www.gov.uk/parking-tickets/challenging-a-ticket)\n- [Northern Ireland: Motoring offences in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/fixed-penalties-motoring-offences)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution", "source": "services/appeal-to-traffic-penalty-tribunal.md", "title": "Appeal to a traffic penalty tribunal within Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution" }, "process": { "id": "challenge-restriction-removal-or-prosecution", "route": "enclosing-process/challenge-restriction-removal-or-prosecution", "title": "Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "contest-road-user-charge", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/contest-road-user-charge", "sequenced": false, "title": "Contest a road-user charge" }, { "id": "respond-to-driving-disqualification", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/respond-to-driving-disqualification", "sequenced": false, "title": "Respond to driving disqualification" }, { "id": "respond-to-transport-prosecution", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/respond-to-transport-prosecution", "sequenced": false, "title": "Respond to a transport prosecution" }, { "id": "respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal", "sequenced": false, "title": "Respond to vehicle clamping or removal" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a0fbe77bc547420fd60478ed", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/db523258cbd820cb899d8694" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": 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"route": "resource/appeal-to-traffic-penalty-tribunal-transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish road-safety, parking, fine and driving-ban information.", "title": "Road safety, parking tickets, fines and bans in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport/penalty-points-fines" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transport_enforcement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "England, Wales and Scotland enforcement routes do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dc84003bc936287fcc9b1247", "resource_id": 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7f99e1acc6878c1f4fee5e67", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-adoption-support-early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/apply-for-adoption-support-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "apply-for-adoption-support-primary", "early-years-scotland-handoff", "early-years-wales-handoff", "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/14772050bd2acca8ab1d77ce", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4497a31c9728998550f39a77" }, "route": "service-episode/apply-for-adoption-support-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/24e3b1f328a55099d09de2e9", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cc48a1065211722af1059b0a", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-adoption-support-apply-for-adoption-support-primary", "source_id": "apply-for-adoption-support-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e34a38780a2d365b4c9dc75c", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-adoption-support-early-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/95a8f7fe45ce73fcbb5a8ebc", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-adoption-support-early-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/79429ad79ebcd84968681398", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-adoption-support-early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/apply-for-adoption-support-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "apply-for-adoption-support-primary", "early-years-scotland-handoff", "early-years-wales-handoff", "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "apply-for-adoption-support", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Apply for adoption support\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Support early development and safety** in the **Early years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNavigate the responsible adoption service's assessment, funded-support and review handoffs after an adoption.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/adoption-and-special-guardianship-support-fund-asgsf)\n- [Scotland: Help with childcare costs in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/childcare-costs-help)\n- [Wales: Childcare in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/childcare)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Support early development and safety**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Support early development and safety", "source": "services/apply-for-adoption-support.md", "title": "Apply for adoption support within Support early development and safety" }, "process": { "id": "support-early-development-and-safety", "route": "enclosing-process/support-early-development-and-safety", "title": "Support early development and safety" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-health-visiting", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-health-visiting", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access health visiting" }, { "id": "get-early-years-development-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-early-years-development-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get early-years development support" }, { "id": "get-early-years-send-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-early-years-send-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get early-years SEND support" }, { "id": "report-child-safeguarding-concern", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-child-safeguarding-concern", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a child safeguarding concern" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/75cfdfd13792a0d5c15eb236", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ea3b4cedb7bde38970dc5f22" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/apply-for-adoption-support", "situations": [ "An adopted child, adoptive family or other eligible person needs adoption-related support." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_adoption_support_fund_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "apply-for-adoption-support-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess need, determine eligibility, recommend a provider, approve funding or establish another nation's support." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1029ed32a45a05236ab9ea51", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-adoption-support:apply-for-adoption-support-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-adoption-support-apply-for-adoption-support-primary", "summary": "Explains the England fund and adoption-service assessment handoff for eligible therapeutic support.", "title": "Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/guidance/adoption-and-special-guardianship-support-fund-asgsf" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_childcare_support_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove a separate development, health, safeguarding, library or registration rule." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dcc163f33fc8904a26efa61c", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-adoption-support:early-years-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-adoption-support-early-years-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes families in Scotland to current funded childcare and childcare-cost support.", "title": "Help with childcare costs in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/childcare-costs-help" }, { "authority_role": "wales_childcare_and_early_years_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b3d5d4783ea9aa59df6647f2", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-adoption-support:early-years-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-adoption-support-early-years-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes families and providers in Wales to current childcare and early-years information.", "title": "Childcare in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/childcare" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_early_years_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2ed12f595d801bc9e4bf328c", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-adoption-support:early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-adoption-support-early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Northern Ireland to current education, childcare and early-years services.", "title": "Education in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Apply for adoption support", "user_needs": [ "Find the accountable adoption service, assessment route and current fund or complaint handoff." ] }, { "aliases": [ "become British citizen", "British citizenship application", "naturalisation route" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "apply-for-citizenship-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "apply-for-citizenship-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "apply-for-citizenship-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "apply-for-citizenship-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "apply-for-citizenship-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "apply-for-citizenship-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "apply-for-citizenship-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "apply-for-citizenship-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Select the current registration or naturalisation route and follow its status, residence, identity, evidence, ceremony and review steps.", "domain": { "id": 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cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4bec6f9e4b1b5273d75c0580", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7d7ad01b1c8627ebeecfb258", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5908d524e0ddf5c7aef4ae99", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-citizenship-apply-for-citizenship-primary", "source_id": "apply-for-citizenship-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/apply-for-citizenship-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "apply-for-citizenship-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to apply for citizenship and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Select the current registration or naturalisation route and follow its status, residence, identity, evidence, ceremony and review steps." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9441492a60728791d7504e97", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b4a395b9df118b42918d52a9", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6a5cd3fad15ef99690123691", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-citizenship-apply-for-citizenship-primary", "source_id": "apply-for-citizenship-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/apply-for-citizenship-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "apply-for-citizenship-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/03b3a30cf46a3af0a922a428", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e59223d2c550443a10ae23b4" }, "route": "service-episode/apply-for-citizenship-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": 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"resource/apply-for-citizenship-apply-for-citizenship-primary", "source_id": "apply-for-citizenship-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/apply-for-citizenship-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "apply-for-citizenship-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "apply-for-citizenship", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Apply for citizenship\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish immigration, citizenship and passport status** in the **Citizenship, democracy and rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSelect the current registration or naturalisation route and follow its status, residence, identity, evidence, ceremony and review steps.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: British citizenship](https://www.gov.uk/british-citizenship)\n- [Scotland: British citizenship](https://www.gov.uk/british-citizenship)\n- [Wales: British citizenship](https://www.gov.uk/british-citizenship)\n- [Northern Ireland: British citizenship](https://www.gov.uk/british-citizenship)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish immigration, citizenship and passport status**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish immigration, citizenship and passport status", "source": "services/apply-for-citizenship.md", "title": "Apply for citizenship within Establish immigration, citizenship and passport status" }, "process": { "id": "establish-immigration-citizenship-and-passport-status", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-immigration-citizenship-and-passport-status", "title": "Establish immigration, citizenship and passport status" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-settlement", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-settlement", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for settlement" }, { "id": "apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for visa or immigration permission" }, { "id": "obtain-uk-passport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-uk-passport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a UK passport" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/551ebb32e5856882434b114d", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/aae2cbf8aeee48001a1b1c39" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/apply-for-citizenship", "situations": [ "A person wants to establish whether and how they may acquire British citizenship." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_citizenship_route_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "apply-for-citizenship-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide nationality, calculate residence, assess good character or grant citizenship." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Home Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5d5ff95ca10383f90536a8dc", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-citizenship:apply-for-citizenship-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-citizenship-apply-for-citizenship-primary", "summary": "Routes people to current British citizenship status, registration and naturalisation guidance.", "title": "British citizenship", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/british-citizenship" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Apply for citizenship", "user_needs": [ "Distinguish automatic status, registration, naturalisation and nationality advice boundaries." ] }, { "aliases": [ "become court appointed deputy", "court of protection deputy", "manage affairs without LPA" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "apply-for-deputyship-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "apply-for-deputyship-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "family-change-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "family-change-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "apply-for-deputyship-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "apply-for-deputyship-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Use the applicable court or guardianship route when a person cannot make specified decisions and no adequate existing authority is available.", "domain": { "id": "relationships-and-family-change", "route": "life-course-domain/relationships-and-family-change", "title": "Relationships and family change" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "Someone may lack capacity for decisions that require formal continuing authority.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Use the applicable court or guardianship route when a person cannot make specified decisions and no adequate existing authority is available.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8c790e8b30ea4c7fa0dc1141", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1a5af32419773ee69a3ca199" }, "route": "service-episode/apply-for-deputyship-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7dd2ec6255ed39b7ec893f99", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/86a19dd1dab2e96cc2f9c164", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d4b15b86a47155aaf209ffb9", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-deputyship-apply-for-deputyship-primary", "source_id": "apply-for-deputyship-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d315f1ed351fb46d68594ee7", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-deputyship-family-change-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8fa31764769e863c477be222", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-deputyship-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/apply-for-deputyship-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "apply-for-deputyship-primary", "family-change-scotland-handoff", "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to apply for deputyship and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the applicable court or guardianship route when a person cannot make specified decisions and no adequate existing authority is available." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f8871feea6addcfa5dcf6e1b", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dae183df6a6ba852d528d732", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2f27825db73fcd7cea76864a", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-deputyship-apply-for-deputyship-primary", "source_id": "apply-for-deputyship-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7e6398380715c574308ff2c3", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-deputyship-family-change-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9f8e5918c801a54c8055518c", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-deputyship-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/apply-for-deputyship-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "apply-for-deputyship-primary", "family-change-scotland-handoff", "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/067f5fd02aaaba6a29d48f58", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/249d0a8aa0163635bc8d79f1" }, "route": "service-episode/apply-for-deputyship-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bc7b5a3cc96a777a4a42b598", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9b0b5cdbf7ce54f611bbe422", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-deputyship-apply-for-deputyship-primary", "source_id": "apply-for-deputyship-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/579269bc172e49211bc29cf3", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-deputyship-family-change-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/81dbdf92a8b9e01c36f97731", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-deputyship-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/apply-for-deputyship-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "apply-for-deputyship-primary", "family-change-scotland-handoff", "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "apply-for-deputyship", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Apply for deputyship\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Obtain family protection, representation and care** in the **Relationships and family change** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the applicable court or guardianship route when a person cannot make specified decisions and no adequate existing authority is available.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Become a deputy](https://www.gov.uk/become-deputy)\n- [Scotland: Births, deaths and family in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family)\n- [Wales: Become a deputy](https://www.gov.uk/become-deputy)\n- [Northern Ireland: Find out your rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/find-out-your-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Obtain family protection, representation and care**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Obtain family protection, representation and care", "source": "services/apply-for-deputyship.md", "title": "Apply for deputyship within Obtain family protection, representation and care" }, "process": { "id": "obtain-family-protection-representation-and-care", "route": "enclosing-process/obtain-family-protection-representation-and-care", "title": "Obtain family protection, representation and care" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-domestic-abuse-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-domestic-abuse-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get domestic abuse support" }, { "id": "get-family-carer-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-family-carer-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get family carer support" }, { "id": "register-lasting-power-of-attorney", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-lasting-power-of-attorney", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register lasting power of attorney" }, { "id": "use-family-court", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-family-court", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a family court" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d699c3cfd4fa8d7f3fb70f73", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a2b26e12953af5ff07eaa713" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/apply-for-deputyship", "situations": [ "Someone may lack capacity for decisions that require formal continuing authority." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_deputyship_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "apply-for-deputyship-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess capacity, decide whether deputyship is needed or establish devolved instruments." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Office of the Public Guardian", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1f71e08505224cd724439d7b", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-deputyship:apply-for-deputyship-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-deputyship-apply-for-deputyship-primary", "summary": "Introduces England and Wales Court of Protection deputy applications and supervision.", "title": "Become a deputy", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/become-deputy" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_family_change_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "family-change-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine status, legal rights, eligibility, safeguarding action or an individual court route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b83a7455ed98003b1b39b262", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-deputyship:family-change-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-deputyship-family-change-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish marriage, civil partnership, family, care and representation information.", "title": "Births, deaths and family in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_family_change_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish the applicable court, safeguarding, care or representation route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fd4125c7ac72eb593b32fd37", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-deputyship:family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-deputyship-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Introduces Northern Ireland marriage, civil partnership, separation, parental-responsibility, family-safety and wider rights handoffs.", "title": "Find out your rights in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/find-out-your-rights" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Apply for deputyship", "user_needs": [ "Find the correct application, evidence, supervision and objection route without a capacity decision by the bundle." ] }, { "aliases": [ "school meal support", "free lunches at school" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "apply-for-free-school-meals-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "apply-for-free-school-meals-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "school-years-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "school-years-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "school-years-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "school-years-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Find the current school-meal support route and submit an application where one is required.", "domain": { "id": "school-years", "route": "life-course-domain/school-years", "title": "School years" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A household needs to check or request help with school meal costs.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Find the current school-meal support route and submit an application where one is required.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ebeb4b7e0b1431d99644127b", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0cf7d3a176ecf6773920e9f0" }, "route": "service-episode/apply-for-free-school-meals-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/141afc8a73ec55d3991042ea", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bcb9790a447caa70b7a5d04c", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d47ea71971f6ee223abdd2cc", "resource_route": 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"service-step/apply-for-free-school-meals-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "apply-for-free-school-meals-primary", "school-years-scotland-handoff", "school-years-wales-handoff", "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f8fc9c28ee6270f72c12aad2", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8f5b2ab0bbb83c86ce6b8728" }, "route": "service-episode/apply-for-free-school-meals-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/85067eda2d5e1aab22c45624", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/76d1e5459419b1f48f316030", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-free-school-meals-apply-for-free-school-meals-primary", "source_id": "apply-for-free-school-meals-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/77c9416859cd9cfcbe661799", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-free-school-meals-school-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/37fef139459911948ab74e51", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-free-school-meals-school-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/05f267f3172cc8e997ef0313", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-free-school-meals-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/apply-for-free-school-meals-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "apply-for-free-school-meals-primary", "school-years-scotland-handoff", "school-years-wales-handoff", "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "apply-for-free-school-meals", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Apply for free school meals\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter and attend school** in the **School years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind the current school-meal support route and submit an application where one is required.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Apply for free school meals](https://www.gov.uk/apply-free-school-meals)\n- [Scotland: School education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter and attend school**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter and attend school", "source": "services/apply-for-free-school-meals.md", "title": "Apply for free school meals within Enter and attend school" }, "process": { "id": "enter-and-attend-school", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-and-attend-school", "title": "Enter and attend school" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "appeal-school-admission", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/appeal-school-admission", "sequenced": false, "title": "Appeal a school admission decision" }, { "id": "apply-for-school-place", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-school-place", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for a school place" }, { "id": "arrange-school-transport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-school-transport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange school transport" }, { "id": "choose-home-education", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/choose-home-education", "sequenced": false, "title": "Choose home education" }, { "id": "meet-school-attendance-duty", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/meet-school-attendance-duty", "sequenced": false, "title": "Meet school attendance duties" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ea2ed379d046c0dae982af32", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5f80d73150c8570c432faccf" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/apply-for-free-school-meals", "situations": [ "A household needs to check or request help with school meal costs." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_free_school_meals_discovery_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "apply-for-free-school-meals-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not calculate household entitlement or establish another nation's offer." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5cc96737b3da5e6346dc86f2", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-free-school-meals:apply-for-free-school-meals-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-free-school-meals-apply-for-free-school-meals-primary", "summary": "Routes England applicants to the responsible council's school-meal service.", "title": "Apply for free school meals", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/apply-free-school-meals" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1beefe56b94dce187124c0d6", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-free-school-meals:school-years-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-free-school-meals-school-years-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish school education services and support.", "title": "School education in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d7854db8d92f085ed92d3758", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-free-school-meals:school-years-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-free-school-meals-school-years-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh education services, policy and support.", "title": "Education and skills in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/education-skills" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/88e76ec502ee5a823f3b5d19", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-free-school-meals:school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-free-school-meals-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland education services and support.", "title": "Education in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Apply for 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high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Apply for a further education course\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter and fund post-school study** in the **Further education, university and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind a suitable further-education course and follow the provider's admission and funding route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Further education courses and funding](https://www.gov.uk/further-education-courses)\n- [Scotland: Further and higher education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Further and higher education in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Higher education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education/higher-education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter and fund post-school study**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter and fund post-school study", "source": "services/apply-for-further-education-course.md", "title": "Apply for a further education course within Enter and fund post-school study" }, "process": { "id": "enter-and-fund-post-school-study", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-and-fund-post-school-study", "title": "Enter and fund post-school study" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-adult-skills-training", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-adult-skills-training", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access adult skills training" }, { "id": "apply-to-university", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-to-university", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply to university" }, { "id": "arrange-student-accommodation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-student-accommodation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange student accommodation" }, { "id": "claim-student-council-tax-disregard", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-student-council-tax-disregard", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim a student council tax disregard" }, { "id": "get-disabled-students-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-disabled-students-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Disabled Students' Allowance" }, { "id": "get-student-finance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-student-finance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get student finance" }, { "id": "register-with-health-services-as-student", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": 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What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nRequest the applicable needs, housing and grant assessments before arranging eligible accessibility work.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Disabled Facilities Grants](https://www.gov.uk/disabled-facilities-grants)\n- [Scotland: Housing and local services in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services)\n- [Wales: Housing in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/housing)\n- [Northern Ireland: Property and housing in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/property-and-housing)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Adapt, develop and protect home and neighbourhood**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Adapt, develop and protect home and neighbourhood", "source": "services/apply-for-home-adaptation.md", "title": "Apply for a home adaptation within Adapt, develop and protect home and neighbourhood" }, "process": { "id": "adapt-develop-and-protect-home-and-neighbourhood", "route": "enclosing-process/adapt-develop-and-protect-home-and-neighbourhood", "title": "Adapt, develop and protect home and neighbourhood" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "meet-building-regulations", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/meet-building-regulations", "sequenced": false, "title": "Meet building regulations" }, { "id": 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What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind a current competition, confirm its scope and applicant rules and submit the required proposal, budget, partners and declarations.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Apply for innovation funding](https://www.gov.uk/apply-funding-innovation)\n- [Scotland: Apply for innovation funding](https://www.gov.uk/apply-funding-innovation)\n- [Wales: Apply for innovation funding](https://www.gov.uk/apply-funding-innovation)\n- [Northern Ireland: Apply for innovation funding](https://www.gov.uk/apply-funding-innovation)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. 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"state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ad007066fbf50ed8f0e21751", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f6d75e48db685cc1ff2ee4c3", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-patent-apply-for-patent-primary", "source_id": "apply-for-patent-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/apply-for-patent-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "apply-for-patent-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "apply-for-patent", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Apply for a patent\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Protect and register intellectual property** in the **Ideas, creativity and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nPreserve pre-filing confidentiality, assess the protection route and use the current application, fee, search, publication and examination process.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Apply for a patent](https://www.gov.uk/patent-your-invention)\n- [Scotland: Apply for a patent](https://www.gov.uk/patent-your-invention)\n- [Wales: Apply for a patent](https://www.gov.uk/patent-your-invention)\n- [Northern Ireland: Apply for a patent](https://www.gov.uk/patent-your-invention)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Protect and register intellectual property**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Protect and register intellectual property", "source": "services/apply-for-patent.md", "title": "Apply for a patent within Protect and register intellectual property" }, "process": { "id": "protect-and-register-intellectual-property", "route": "enclosing-process/protect-and-register-intellectual-property", "title": "Protect and register intellectual property" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "license-intellectual-property", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/license-intellectual-property", "sequenced": false, "title": "License intellectual property" }, { "id": "manage-copyright", "relationship": 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7dc71a0056849a38dad8fd3d", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-patent:apply-for-patent-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-patent-apply-for-patent-primary", "summary": "Explains UK patentability overview, application, costs, search, publication and examination stages.", "title": "Apply for a patent", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/patent-your-invention" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Apply for a patent", "user_needs": [ "Find the filing process and professional boundary without deciding patentability or strategy." ] }, { "aliases": [ "school admissions application", "primary or secondary school place" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "apply-for-school-place-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", 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"service-step/apply-for-school-place-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "apply-for-school-place-primary", "school-years-scotland-handoff", "school-years-wales-handoff", "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "apply-for-school-place", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Apply for a school place\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter and attend school** in the **School years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind the responsible admissions route and submit a school-place application for the relevant intake or move.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Apply for a primary school place](https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-primary-school-place)\n- [Scotland: School education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter and attend school**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter and attend school", "source": "services/apply-for-school-place.md", "title": "Apply for a school place within Enter and attend school" }, "process": { "id": "enter-and-attend-school", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-and-attend-school", "title": "Enter and attend school" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "appeal-school-admission", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/appeal-school-admission", "sequenced": false, "title": "Appeal a school admission decision" }, { "id": "apply-for-free-school-meals", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-free-school-meals", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for free school meals" }, { "id": "arrange-school-transport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-school-transport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange school transport" }, { "id": "choose-home-education", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/choose-home-education", "sequenced": false, "title": "Choose home education" }, { "id": "meet-school-attendance-duty", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/meet-school-attendance-duty", "sequenced": false, "title": "Meet school attendance duties" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6de1c5900bec5788d74db661", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b8018f31f539dda4c01ad558" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/apply-for-school-place", "situations": [ "A parent or carer needs a state-funded school place for a child." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_primary_school_admissions_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "apply-for-school-place-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not allocate a place or establish another nation's admissions process." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/23e1e7868500d8ab963c5dda", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-school-place:apply-for-school-place-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-school-place-apply-for-school-place-primary", "summary": "Routes an England applicant to the responsible council and current primary admissions process.", "title": "Apply for a primary school place", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-primary-school-place" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fc1918fb20f3bc1688699e25", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-school-place:school-years-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-school-place-school-years-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish school education services and support.", "title": "School education in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c5302ba67ce5a2a8506277b5", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-school-place:school-years-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-school-place-school-years-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh education services, policy and support.", "title": "Education and skills in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/education-skills" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9a56b4a21a24906000cf0c0d", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-school-place:school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-school-place-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland education services and support.", "title": "Education in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Apply for a school place", "user_needs": [ "Identify the admissions authority, application window, preferences and decision route." ] }, { "aliases": [ "indefinite leave to remain", "settle permanently in UK", "ILR application" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "apply-for-settlement-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "apply-for-settlement-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "apply-for-settlement-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "apply-for-settlement-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "apply-for-settlement-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "apply-for-settlement-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "apply-for-settlement-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "apply-for-settlement-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Identify the settlement route linked to the person's existing status and use its current residence, evidence, application and review process.", "domain": { "id": "citizenship-democracy-and-rights", "route": "life-course-domain/citizenship-democracy-and-rights", "title": "Citizenship, democracy and rights" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person with immigration permission wants to explore permanent settlement in the United Kingdom.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Identify the settlement route linked to the person's existing status and use its current residence, evidence, application and review process.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1e7386d6d31b3626ea220a39", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/455c98d9f0e412864039a609" }, "route": "service-episode/apply-for-settlement-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f5417956ec342c2dbb33cceb", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/98ebdef7e9c39a2968b044b2", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/82743b9032abf4ad1a161732", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-settlement-apply-for-settlement-primary", "source_id": "apply-for-settlement-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/apply-for-settlement-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "apply-for-settlement-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to apply for settlement and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Identify the settlement route linked to the person's existing status and use its current residence, evidence, application and review process." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c37345f681e4c0fbd9a0ba7a", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cdbaf0bc7ad17f2b6e006ef9", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dffd63e41f729fca60a6f192", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-settlement-apply-for-settlement-primary", "source_id": "apply-for-settlement-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/apply-for-settlement-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "apply-for-settlement-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/27d1c7c54040072f3bf0dda6", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/480262a7bfa881bb8c671ae8" }, "route": "service-episode/apply-for-settlement-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c1b5c5ae182e97fe0dd841d3", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a63d1605446bd90001977234", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-settlement-apply-for-settlement-primary", "source_id": "apply-for-settlement-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/apply-for-settlement-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "apply-for-settlement-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "apply-for-settlement", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Apply for settlement\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish immigration, citizenship and passport status** in the **Citizenship, democracy and rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the settlement route linked to the person's existing status and use its current residence, evidence, application and review process.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Check if you can get indefinite leave to remain](https://www.gov.uk/indefinite-leave-to-remain)\n- [Scotland: Check if you can get indefinite leave to remain](https://www.gov.uk/indefinite-leave-to-remain)\n- [Wales: Check if you can get indefinite leave to remain](https://www.gov.uk/indefinite-leave-to-remain)\n- [Northern Ireland: Check if you can get indefinite leave to remain](https://www.gov.uk/indefinite-leave-to-remain)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish immigration, citizenship and passport status**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish immigration, citizenship and passport status", "source": "services/apply-for-settlement.md", "title": "Apply for settlement within Establish immigration, citizenship and passport status" }, "process": { "id": "establish-immigration-citizenship-and-passport-status", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-immigration-citizenship-and-passport-status", "title": "Establish immigration, citizenship and passport status" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-citizenship", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-citizenship", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for citizenship" }, { "id": "apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for visa or immigration permission" }, { "id": "obtain-uk-passport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-uk-passport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a UK passport" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/63415b5bfc8734b50971940f", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/76b7b98bb253fb3326cf7272" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/apply-for-settlement", "situations": [ "A person with immigration permission wants to explore permanent settlement in the United Kingdom." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_settlement_route_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "apply-for-settlement-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not calculate residence, assess absences, decide eligibility or grant status." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Home Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f9a6ce21e2d0613231cc8415", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-settlement:apply-for-settlement-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-settlement-apply-for-settlement-primary", "summary": "Routes applicants to current UK settlement categories and application guidance.", "title": "Check if you can get indefinite leave to remain", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/indefinite-leave-to-remain" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Apply for settlement", "user_needs": [ "Find the route-specific conditions without a local residence, absence or eligibility calculation." ] }, { "aliases": [ "join council housing list", "housing association home", "housing register application" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "apply-for-social-housing-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "apply-for-social-housing-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "housing-community-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "housing-community-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "housing-community-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Apply through the responsible allocation scheme and retain assessment, priority, bidding and review decisions.", "domain": { "id": "housing-and-community", "route": "life-course-domain/housing-and-community", "title": "Housing and community life" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A household wants to be considered for 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"state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bc73d7490372029a9b9606eb", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7b905327715b5d168af746bf", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-social-housing-apply-for-social-housing-primary", "source_id": "apply-for-social-housing-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b3b49da7f8a401a31b572706", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-social-housing-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": 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"housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "apply-for-social-housing", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Apply for social housing\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Secure and move home** in the **Housing and community life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nApply through the responsible allocation scheme and retain assessment, priority, bidding and review decisions.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Apply for council housing](https://www.gov.uk/council-housing)\n- [Scotland: Housing and local services in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services)\n- [Wales: Housing in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/housing)\n- [Northern Ireland: Property and housing in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/property-and-housing)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Secure and move home**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Secure and move home", "source": "services/apply-for-social-housing.md", "title": "Apply for social housing within Secure and move home" }, "process": { "id": "secure-and-move-home", "route": "enclosing-process/secure-and-move-home", "title": "Secure and move home" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "buy-home", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/buy-home", "sequenced": false, "title": "Buy a home" }, { "id": "get-homelessness-help", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-homelessness-help", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get homelessness help" }, { "id": "move-home", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/move-home", "sequenced": false, "title": "Move home" }, { "id": "protect-tenancy-deposit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/protect-tenancy-deposit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Protect a tenancy deposit" }, { "id": "prove-right-to-rent", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/prove-right-to-rent", "sequenced": false, "title": "Prove the right to rent" }, { "id": "register-for-council-tax", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-for-council-tax", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register for Council Tax" }, { "id": "rent-private-home", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/rent-private-home", "sequenced": false, "title": "Rent a private home" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/868bb14212bd8f4d35dc64fc", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8e300ff01b3a8d5561ebae6f" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/apply-for-social-housing", "situations": [ "A household wants to be considered for council or housing-association accommodation." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_social_housing_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "apply-for-social-housing-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide qualification, priority, property availability or a review." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d3d91f876cf22509f7d1790c", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-social-housing:apply-for-social-housing-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-social-housing-apply-for-social-housing-primary", "summary": "Routes England and Wales users to the relevant council application and allocation information.", "title": "Apply for council housing", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/council-housing" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England housing rule or local route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ea16b7889ae2c6cd763182ea", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-social-housing:housing-community-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": 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"linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-social-housing-housing-community-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh housing policy, support and service information.", "title": "Housing in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/housing" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "England, Scotland and Wales housing rules do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bb6b1a28d067167e241f1a0a", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-social-housing:housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-social-housing-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland property, housing and local-service information.", "title": "Property and housing in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/property-and-housing" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Apply for social housing", "user_needs": [ "Find the local allocation route and understand that eligibility and priority are authority decisions." ] }, { "aliases": [ "apply to come to UK", "UK visa application", "immigration permission route" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ 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"apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/04c920d36d02cce8ee3a1a07", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/386bb10969fdd30884c15438" }, "route": "service-episode/apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cdcbba0d79488ff7aa2b1bce", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6463e89df7a4c53cf5444c58", "resource_route": "resource/apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission-apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission-primary", "source_id": "apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Apply for visa or immigration permission\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish immigration, citizenship and passport status** in the **Citizenship, democracy and rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the exact immigration route and use its current application, identity, evidence, fee, decision and review process.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Check if you need a UK visa](https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa)\n- [Scotland: Check if you need a UK visa](https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa)\n- [Wales: Check if you need a UK visa](https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa)\n- [Northern Ireland: Check if you need a UK visa](https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish immigration, citizenship and passport status**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish immigration, citizenship and passport status", "source": "services/apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission.md", "title": "Apply for visa or immigration permission within Establish immigration, citizenship and passport status" }, "process": { "id": "establish-immigration-citizenship-and-passport-status", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-immigration-citizenship-and-passport-status", "title": "Establish immigration, citizenship and passport status" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-citizenship", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-citizenship", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for citizenship" }, { "id": "apply-for-settlement", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-settlement", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for settlement" }, { "id": "obtain-uk-passport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-uk-passport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a UK passport" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9a05754d9955c16609a14cc7", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c5d0e8934375e59f99403f70" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission", "situations": [ "A person wants permission to enter, remain, work, study or join family in the United Kingdom." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_visa_route_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide eligibility, grant permission, provide legal advice or cover every in-country application." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Home Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d88105e95d3385d12b877fb5", "resource_id": "resource:apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission:apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission-apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission-primary", "summary": "Routes people to current UK entry and visa categories based on stated travel purpose and nationality.", "title": "Check if you need a UK visa", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Apply for visa or immigration permission", "user_needs": [ "Find the correct current route without the bundle assessing eligibility, evidence or prospects." ] }, { "aliases": [ "university application", "apply for undergraduate course" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "apply-to-university-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "apply-to-university-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "post-school-study-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "post-school-study-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Search for a higher-education course and submit an application through the applicable admissions route.", "domain": { "id": "further-education-university-research", "route": "life-course-domain/further-education-university-research", "title": "Further education, university and research" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A prospective student wants to apply for undergraduate higher education.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Search for a higher-education course and submit an application through the applicable admissions route.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1544fc0c8669d96d217c61dc", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dd6b602218217cba68858321" }, "route": "service-episode/apply-to-university-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/76395047e459e1a6b1eca5d0", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/982b2435d9d98ab3f9f6fe27", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ba50e469ebedd793ea934ec8", "resource_route": "resource/apply-to-university-apply-to-university-primary", "source_id": "apply-to-university-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/70952db92f31b43feaae3004", "resource_route": "resource/apply-to-university-post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b6a883fff46384b7364a086a", "resource_route": "resource/apply-to-university-post-school-study-wales-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/67861a262fc2de9b0bf51dd3", "resource_route": "resource/apply-to-university-post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/apply-to-university-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "apply-to-university-primary", "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to apply to university and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Search for a higher-education course and submit an application through the applicable admissions route." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2aac7544da8b38f2cac1ba70", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dc7c102e4ff0e37b33be11f1", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/594edfa096b9ba46f674bf06", "resource_route": "resource/apply-to-university-apply-to-university-primary", "source_id": "apply-to-university-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/489277e5f4f5a131075896cc", "resource_route": "resource/apply-to-university-post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b50557238870a0b15c25fae0", "resource_route": "resource/apply-to-university-post-school-study-wales-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c3fa3fa13de665f068ff738e", "resource_route": "resource/apply-to-university-post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/apply-to-university-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "apply-to-university-primary", "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ae93e1cd25475058a13d9cf1", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/91bf4922aa754a47d076b08d" }, "route": "service-episode/apply-to-university-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5a4bdbad99da483455a0a398", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1854404fa170b534aa6879c2", "resource_route": "resource/apply-to-university-apply-to-university-primary", "source_id": "apply-to-university-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/29750019bb34333b9a7357e5", "resource_route": "resource/apply-to-university-post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d1e540b4b0f2c14dc1c8a06d", "resource_route": "resource/apply-to-university-post-school-study-wales-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d3db388749262932073331d9", "resource_route": "resource/apply-to-university-post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/apply-to-university-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "apply-to-university-primary", "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "apply-to-university", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Apply to university\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter and fund post-school study** in the **Further education, university and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSearch for a higher-education course and submit an application through the applicable admissions route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Apply to university](https://www.gov.uk/higher-education-courses-find-and-apply)\n- [Scotland: Further and higher education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Further and higher education in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Higher education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education/higher-education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter and fund post-school study**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter and fund post-school study", "source": "services/apply-to-university.md", "title": "Apply to university within Enter and fund post-school study" }, "process": { "id": "enter-and-fund-post-school-study", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-and-fund-post-school-study", "title": "Enter and fund post-school study" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-adult-skills-training", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-adult-skills-training", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access adult skills training" }, { "id": "apply-for-further-education-course", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-further-education-course", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for a further education course" }, { "id": "arrange-student-accommodation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-student-accommodation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange student accommodation" }, { "id": "claim-student-council-tax-disregard", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-student-council-tax-disregard", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim a student council tax disregard" }, { "id": "get-disabled-students-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-disabled-students-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Disabled Students' Allowance" }, { "id": "get-student-finance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-student-finance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get student finance" }, { "id": "register-with-health-services-as-student", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-with-health-services-as-student", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register with health services as a student" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c1355ba0905a88c57a9661a3", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4d1b97e7ce8b91e739d0b190" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/apply-to-university", "situations": [ "A prospective student wants to apply for undergraduate higher education." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_undergraduate_application_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "apply-to-university-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not recommend a course, submit an application or make an admission decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/074d168c56a0b15a9496d7cc", "resource_id": "resource:apply-to-university:apply-to-university-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-to-university-apply-to-university-primary", "summary": "Routes prospective UK undergraduates through course search, admissions service and provider decisions.", "title": "Apply to university", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/higher-education-courses-find-and-apply" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_post_school_study_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a course, funding, admission or research decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ef406175d7d1b2cd1b45ef56", "resource_id": "resource:apply-to-university:post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-to-university-post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish college, university and student-support services.", "title": "Further and higher education in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_post_school_study_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a course, funding, admission or research decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fcf7524ee44f1f7d83f0f7c3", "resource_id": "resource:apply-to-university:post-school-study-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/apply-to-university-post-school-study-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh further- and higher-education services and policy.", "title": "Further and higher education in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/education-skills" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_post_school_study_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a course, funding, admission or research decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, 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"arrange-adoption-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "arrange-adoption-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "before-birth-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "before-birth-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "before-birth-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "before-birth-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Find the accountable adoption agency route and understand the assessment, matching and decision handoffs.", "domain": { "id": "before-birth-and-starting-family", "route": "life-course-domain/before-birth-and-starting-family", "title": "Before birth and starting a family" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person or family is considering applying to adopt a child.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Find the accountable adoption agency route and understand the assessment, matching and decision handoffs.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/177db55a4a234424315f0913", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3c93fa424fb40ed132d47559" }, "route": "service-episode/arrange-adoption-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current 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standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0f3fe784c212849195b5b92f", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e112b370a011f02090a0d130" }, "route": "service-episode/arrange-adoption-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b262cdc0e025c609579c00df", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5abc44fe0e073c200d7c1ef2", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-adoption-arrange-adoption-primary", "source_id": 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clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "arrange-adoption-primary", "before-birth-scotland-handoff", "before-birth-wales-handoff", "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "arrange-adoption", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Arrange adoption\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Adoption, fostering and surrogacy** in the **Before birth and starting a family** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind the accountable adoption agency route and understand the assessment, matching and decision handoffs.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Child adoption](https://www.gov.uk/child-adoption)\n- [Scotland: Having a baby in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family/children-parenting/having-baby)\n- [Wales: Children and families in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/children-families)\n- [Northern Ireland: Family, home and community in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/family-home-and-community)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Adoption, fostering and surrogacy**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Adoption, fostering and surrogacy", "source": "services/arrange-adoption.md", "title": "Arrange adoption within Adoption, fostering and surrogacy" }, "process": { "id": "adoption-fostering-and-surrogacy", "route": "enclosing-process/adoption-fostering-and-surrogacy", "title": "Adoption, fostering and surrogacy" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "become-a-foster-carer", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/become-a-foster-carer", "sequenced": false, "title": "Become a foster carer" }, { "id": "pursue-surrogacy-parenthood", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/pursue-surrogacy-parenthood", "sequenced": false, "title": "Pursue surrogacy parenthood" }, { "id": "take-adoption-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-adoption-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take adoption leave" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7858bef209f61f484a314dd3", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/14057e96ac7ea37f056c3f33" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/arrange-adoption", "situations": [ "A person or family is considering applying to adopt a child." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_adoption_service_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "arrange-adoption-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not approve an adopter, match a child, decide a court application or establish another nation's process." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/001fef65d8c6043ecbbd582d", "resource_id": "resource:arrange-adoption:arrange-adoption-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/arrange-adoption-arrange-adoption-primary", "summary": "Routes prospective adopters in England to an adoption agency and describes the source-defined process.", "title": "Child adoption", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/child-adoption" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_pregnancy_and_parenting_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "before-birth-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1524fe221224ca0321a7207c", "resource_id": "resource:arrange-adoption:before-birth-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/arrange-adoption-before-birth-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Scotland to current pregnancy, birth and early-parenting services and support.", "title": "Having a baby in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family/children-parenting/having-baby" }, { "authority_role": "wales_children_and_families_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "before-birth-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c80254ab48b741ca6de15a00", "resource_id": "resource:arrange-adoption:before-birth-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/arrange-adoption-before-birth-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Wales to current children, family, pregnancy and early-years policy and services.", "title": "Children and families in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/children-families" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_family_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/22bcd518ca8437c20fe0a5b6", "resource_id": "resource:arrange-adoption:before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/arrange-adoption-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Northern Ireland to current family, pregnancy, birth and local support services.", "title": "Family, home and community in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/family-home-and-community" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Arrange adoption", "user_needs": [ "Find the current national or local adoption service and its assessment and complaint route." ] }, { "aliases": [ "council furniture collection", "remove large household item", "bulky item pickup" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", 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eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Arrange bulky waste collection\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Manage household waste collections** in the **Rubbish, recycling and the street** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nBook or identify the local route for large household items and retain item, fee, access and collection conditions.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Apply for special collection of large waste items](https://www.gov.uk/collection-large-waste-items)\n- [Scotland: Bins and recycling in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services/rubbish-and-recycling)\n- [Wales: Recycling and waste in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/recycling-waste-circular-economy)\n- [Northern Ireland: Rubbish, recycling and waste in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/environment-and-outdoors/waste-and-recycling)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Manage household waste collections**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Manage household waste collections", "source": "services/arrange-bulky-waste-collection.md", "title": "Arrange bulky waste collection within Manage household waste collections" }, "process": { "id": "manage-household-waste-collections", "route": "enclosing-process/manage-household-waste-collections", "title": "Manage household waste collections" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-clinical-waste-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-clinical-waste-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange clinical waste collection" }, { "id": "arrange-garden-waste-collection", "relationship": 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"# Arrange burial or cremation\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Certify, register, notify and arrange after death** in the **Death and bereavement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSelect the lawful burial or cremation route, obtain the required authority and forms and coordinate the cemetery, crematorium or other responsible body.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Arrange the funeral](https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/arrange-the-funeral)\n- [Scotland: Births, deaths and family in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family)\n- [Wales: Arrange the funeral](https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/arrange-the-funeral)\n- [Northern Ireland: What to do when someone dies](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/births-deaths-baby-loss-marriages-and-civil-partnerships/death-and)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Certify, register, notify and arrange after death**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Certify, register, notify and arrange after death", "source": "services/arrange-burial-or-cremation.md", "title": "Arrange burial or cremation within Certify, register, notify and arrange after death" }, "process": { "id": "certify-register-notify-and-arrange-after-death", "route": "enclosing-process/certify-register-notify-and-arrange-after-death", "title": "Certify, register, notify and arrange after death" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-funeral", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-funeral", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange a funeral" }, { "id": "arrange-repatriation-after-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-repatriation-after-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange repatriation after death" }, { "id": "claim-bereavement-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-bereavement-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim bereavement support" }, { "id": "notify-organisations-after-a-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/notify-organisations-after-a-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Notify organisations after a death" }, { "id": "obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a medical certificate of cause of death" }, { "id": "refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal", "sequenced": false, "title": "Refer a death to a coroner or procurator fiscal" }, { "id": "register-a-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-a-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a death" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a37c8e5c5ceff21e72514fa1", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5e035bf0b16e7a52fd66d4c0" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/arrange-burial-or-cremation", "situations": [ "A funeral arrangement requires burial, cremation or another lawful committal route." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_burial_cremation_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "arrange-burial-or-cremation-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish local availability, Scottish or Northern Ireland requirements, costs or personal wishes." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "UK Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5143fe4506309b1b3d829a99", "resource_id": "resource:arrange-burial-or-cremation:arrange-burial-or-cremation-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/arrange-burial-or-cremation-arrange-burial-or-cremation-primary", "summary": "Introduces England and Wales burial, cremation and funeral-document handoffs.", "title": "Arrange the funeral", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/arrange-the-funeral" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_death_bereavement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide cause, investigation, informant status, succession, tax or individual entitlement." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d0fabf56a676e7133ee8e6cf", "resource_id": "resource:arrange-burial-or-cremation:death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/arrange-burial-or-cremation-death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes bereaved people to current Scottish registration, funeral, support and estate information.", "title": "Births, deaths and family in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_after_death_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not 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"resource/arrange-child-maintenance-arrange-child-maintenance-primary", "source_id": "arrange-child-maintenance-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/32d5744212497be6396d455a", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-child-maintenance-family-change-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e54fdcf672ed25effb78f6e2", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-child-maintenance-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/arrange-child-maintenance-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "arrange-child-maintenance-primary", "family-change-scotland-handoff", "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "arrange-child-maintenance", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Arrange child maintenance\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Form, change and support family relationships** in the **Relationships and family change** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nChoose a private or statutory maintenance route, keep the calculation and payment record and use the current review or enforcement path if arrangements fail.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Child Maintenance Service](https://www.gov.uk/child-maintenance-service)\n- [Scotland: Births, deaths and family in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family)\n- [Wales: Child Maintenance Service](https://www.gov.uk/child-maintenance-service)\n- [Northern Ireland: Find out your rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/find-out-your-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Form, change and support family relationships**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Form, change and support family relationships", "source": "services/arrange-child-maintenance.md", "title": "Arrange child maintenance within Form, change and support family relationships" }, "process": { "id": "form-change-and-support-family-relationships", "route": "enclosing-process/form-change-and-support-family-relationships", "title": "Form, change and support family relationships" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "adopt-child", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/adopt-child", "sequenced": false, "title": "Adopt a child" }, { "id": "change-name", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/change-name", "sequenced": false, "title": "Change name" }, { "id": "divorce-or-dissolve-partnership", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/divorce-or-dissolve-partnership", "sequenced": false, "title": "Divorce or dissolve a partnership" }, { "id": "form-civil-partnership", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/form-civil-partnership", "sequenced": false, "title": "Form a civil partnership" }, { "id": "marry", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/marry", "sequenced": false, "title": "Marry" }, { "id": "resolve-parental-responsibility", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/resolve-parental-responsibility", "sequenced": false, "title": "Resolve parental responsibility" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c7dfb612836d3219a2a33d3b", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6c77e114772d425799aa7233" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/arrange-child-maintenance", "situations": [ "Separated parents or carers need to arrange financial support for a child." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_child_maintenance_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "arrange-child-maintenance-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not calculate a personal amount locally or establish the Northern Ireland service route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Work and Pensions", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/83816cd73af8676a9df6a37b", "resource_id": "resource:arrange-child-maintenance:arrange-child-maintenance-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/arrange-child-maintenance-arrange-child-maintenance-primary", "summary": "Routes Great Britain users to statutory maintenance information, calculation and application services.", "title": "Child Maintenance Service", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/child-maintenance-service" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_family_change_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "family-change-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine status, legal rights, eligibility, safeguarding action or an individual court route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/91fd98536856732656fe422d", "resource_id": "resource:arrange-child-maintenance:family-change-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/arrange-child-maintenance-family-change-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish marriage, civil partnership, family, care and representation information.", "title": "Births, deaths and family in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_family_change_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish the applicable court, safeguarding, care or representation route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b9c491840646b400e618aebb", "resource_id": "resource:arrange-child-maintenance:family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/arrange-child-maintenance-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Introduces Northern Ireland marriage, civil partnership, separation, parental-responsibility, family-safety and wider rights handoffs.", "title": "Find out your rights in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/find-out-your-rights" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Arrange child maintenance", "user_needs": [ "Find the jurisdiction-specific calculation, application, payment and dispute route." ] }, { "aliases": [ "sharps bin collection", "medical waste from home", "used needle disposal" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "arrange-clinical-waste-collection-primary", "provider": 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"rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Ask the health or council route responsible for prescribed clinical waste, sharps or dressings to arrange the applicable collection.", "domain": { "id": "rubbish-recycling-and-street", "route": "life-course-domain/rubbish-recycling-and-street", "title": "Rubbish, recycling and the street" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "Treatment or care at home produces waste that may need a clinical collection route.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Ask the health or council route responsible for prescribed clinical waste, sharps or dressings to arrange the applicable collection.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fc2e5f8f1210f7d3ce7e137c", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c5bb350f121ac7bc3f342492" }, "route": "service-episode/arrange-clinical-waste-collection-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A 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"rubbish-street-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1135096c83da13b03cb8d8d9", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-clinical-waste-collection-rubbish-street-wales-handoff", "source_id": "rubbish-street-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a37e88658b3d7e216510f658", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-clinical-waste-collection-rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/arrange-clinical-waste-collection-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "arrange-clinical-waste-collection-primary", "rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "rubbish-street-wales-handoff", "rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to arrange clinical waste collection and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Ask the health or council route responsible for prescribed clinical waste, sharps or dressings to arrange the applicable collection." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/acffdb6062c3f7c7803e190a", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cc043239f322b8e3021c6055", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/47ce3005bec8e0d20cf8d5dc", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-clinical-waste-collection-arrange-clinical-waste-collection-primary", "source_id": "arrange-clinical-waste-collection-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6fd80260052534bb7db9a8e8", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-clinical-waste-collection-rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "rubbish-street-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dbc24392b916d5854ca6327c", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-clinical-waste-collection-rubbish-street-wales-handoff", "source_id": "rubbish-street-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/30aa43de822c4a2b6e52bff8", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-clinical-waste-collection-rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/arrange-clinical-waste-collection-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "arrange-clinical-waste-collection-primary", "rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "rubbish-street-wales-handoff", "rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4a7a98d3f366364116dc73df", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3b441569f3add50d0d69cfcf" }, "route": "service-episode/arrange-clinical-waste-collection-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/286c4fd4d0b2de2c51d51dab", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/75653f563ea74a1994c3d5b3", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-clinical-waste-collection-arrange-clinical-waste-collection-primary", "source_id": "arrange-clinical-waste-collection-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/47148b73a40a36eb425ff305", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-clinical-waste-collection-rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "rubbish-street-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/023d3053f3c76d8be8961df5", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-clinical-waste-collection-rubbish-street-wales-handoff", "source_id": "rubbish-street-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a69bbeb9ce98eca641e956c4", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-clinical-waste-collection-rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/arrange-clinical-waste-collection-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "arrange-clinical-waste-collection-primary", "rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "rubbish-street-wales-handoff", "rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "arrange-clinical-waste-collection", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Arrange clinical waste collection\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Manage household waste collections** in the **Rubbish, recycling and the street** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nAsk the health or council route responsible for prescribed clinical waste, sharps or dressings to arrange the applicable collection.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Request clinical waste collection](https://www.gov.uk/request-clinical-waste-collection)\n- [Scotland: Bins and recycling in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services/rubbish-and-recycling)\n- [Wales: Recycling and waste in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/recycling-waste-circular-economy)\n- [Northern Ireland: Rubbish, recycling and waste in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/environment-and-outdoors/waste-and-recycling)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Manage household waste collections**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Manage household waste collections", "source": "services/arrange-clinical-waste-collection.md", "title": "Arrange clinical waste collection within Manage household waste collections" }, "process": { "id": "manage-household-waste-collections", "route": "enclosing-process/manage-household-waste-collections", "title": "Manage household waste collections" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-bulky-waste-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-bulky-waste-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange bulky waste collection" }, { "id": "arrange-garden-waste-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-garden-waste-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange garden waste collection" }, { "id": "dispose-of-hazardous-waste", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/dispose-of-hazardous-waste", "sequenced": false, "title": "Dispose of hazardous waste" }, { "id": "order-replacement-waste-container", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/order-replacement-waste-container", "sequenced": false, "title": "Order a replacement waste container" }, { "id": "report-missed-rubbish-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-missed-rubbish-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a missed rubbish collection" }, { "id": "use-household-recycling-service", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-household-recycling-service", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a household recycling service" }, { "id": "view-waste-collection-schedule", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/view-waste-collection-schedule", "sequenced": false, "title": "View the waste collection schedule" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/efbee2257bb91b7597ffaf66", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/394228eb280645abeee12db1" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/arrange-clinical-waste-collection", "situations": [ "Treatment or care at home produces waste that may need a clinical collection route." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_clinical_waste_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "arrange-clinical-waste-collection-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide clinical classification, supply containers, handle medicines or give injury advice." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/34bb8d65ec9dd29a2f7103ef", "resource_id": "resource:arrange-clinical-waste-collection:arrange-clinical-waste-collection-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/arrange-clinical-waste-collection-arrange-clinical-waste-collection-primary", "summary": "Routes users in England and Wales to the council clinical-waste service.", "title": "Request clinical waste collection", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/request-clinical-waste-collection" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_waste_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine collection arrangements, accepted materials, charges or enforcement." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/02ce7aeaa6b98e3123293786", "resource_id": "resource:arrange-clinical-waste-collection:rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/arrange-clinical-waste-collection-rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish household-waste and local-council services.", "title": "Bins and recycling in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services/rubbish-and-recycling" }, { "authority_role": "wales_waste_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "rubbish-street-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a local collection, report or disposal route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d5106e84e5fc5934023814cb", "resource_id": "resource:arrange-clinical-waste-collection:rubbish-street-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/arrange-clinical-waste-collection-rubbish-street-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh waste policy, local services and environmental guidance.", "title": "Recycling and waste in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/recycling-waste-circular-economy" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_waste_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain waste routes do not establish Northern Ireland collection or disposal procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1b13c291a2d4faa66ae1548e", "resource_id": "resource:arrange-clinical-waste-collection:rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/arrange-clinical-waste-collection-rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland household and council waste services.", "title": "Rubbish, recycling and waste in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/environment-and-outdoors/waste-and-recycling" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Arrange clinical waste collection", "user_needs": [ "Distinguish clinical waste from medicines, ordinary hygiene waste and 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"kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Confirm release and registration documents, identify wishes and responsibilities and arrange the service, transport, payment and support through suitable providers.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4367f2ceaae8299704d6c669", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/146b4521958bb88ed922c256" }, "route": "service-episode/arrange-funeral-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6d93012a018d62de8c99d369", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/179e4e74c1b5f2cfb5cfbfba", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b146431eac4ae3795cb1fad2", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-funeral-arrange-funeral-primary", "source_id": "arrange-funeral-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f8596ceb38dccead5ae01a98", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-funeral-death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "death-bereavement-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cd38579fb8d039b5d5d915f9", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-funeral-death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/arrange-funeral-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "arrange-funeral-primary", "death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check 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"state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fdbf2312c570641c3bbca166", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e5e3762ff5ca4dbed6a55885", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ddbb1267571d14c7aaff8b47", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-funeral-arrange-funeral-primary", "source_id": "arrange-funeral-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/869f48b492acabeecc6231e1", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-funeral-death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "death-bereavement-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4777c37769bd9ab30a9caa16", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-funeral-death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/arrange-funeral-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "arrange-funeral-primary", "death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bf7305a0ccef5b0978b18319", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/50ac55f7bfc83c995a07ff54" }, "route": "service-episode/arrange-funeral-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e8b92d869a23376c71a810fc", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4a31bff016c567fc15138998", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-funeral-arrange-funeral-primary", "source_id": "arrange-funeral-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1f6e7702ec31c8d0fca01f68", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-funeral-death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "death-bereavement-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/905cd09d979689638bc37b71", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-funeral-death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/arrange-funeral-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "arrange-funeral-primary", "death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "arrange-funeral", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Arrange a funeral\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Certify, register, notify and arrange after death** in the **Death and bereavement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nConfirm release and registration documents, identify wishes and responsibilities and arrange the service, transport, payment and support through suitable providers.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Arrange the funeral](https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/arrange-the-funeral)\n- [Scotland: Births, deaths and family in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family)\n- [Wales: Arrange the funeral](https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/arrange-the-funeral)\n- [Northern Ireland: What to do when someone dies](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/births-deaths-baby-loss-marriages-and-civil-partnerships/death-and)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Certify, register, notify and arrange after death**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Certify, register, notify and arrange after death", "source": "services/arrange-funeral.md", "title": "Arrange a funeral within Certify, register, notify and arrange after death" }, "process": { "id": "certify-register-notify-and-arrange-after-death", "route": "enclosing-process/certify-register-notify-and-arrange-after-death", "title": "Certify, register, notify and arrange after death" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-burial-or-cremation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-burial-or-cremation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange burial or cremation" }, { "id": "arrange-repatriation-after-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-repatriation-after-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange repatriation after death" }, { "id": "claim-bereavement-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-bereavement-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim bereavement support" }, { "id": "notify-organisations-after-a-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/notify-organisations-after-a-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Notify organisations after a death" }, { "id": "obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a medical certificate of cause of death" }, { "id": "refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal", "sequenced": false, "title": "Refer a death to a coroner or procurator fiscal" }, { "id": "register-a-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-a-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a death" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e83fdf81fc3c3f416c314b56", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/00f28702dde06c57eb74a006" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/arrange-funeral", "situations": [ "A family, executor or other responsible person needs to arrange a funeral after a death." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_funeral_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "arrange-funeral-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish Scottish or Northern Ireland procedure, recommend a provider or decide responsibility and payment." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "UK Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0e30b04eb3cd7e02438864d0", "resource_id": "resource:arrange-funeral:arrange-funeral-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/arrange-funeral-arrange-funeral-primary", "summary": "Explains England and Wales sequencing, documents, funeral-director, cost and payment boundaries.", "title": "Arrange the funeral", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/arrange-the-funeral" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_death_bereavement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide cause, investigation, informant status, succession, tax or individual entitlement." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e04317c64b6d4f09fc8e2605", "resource_id": "resource:arrange-funeral:death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/arrange-funeral-death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes bereaved people to current Scottish registration, funeral, support and estate information.", "title": "Births, deaths and family in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_after_death_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide cause, investigation, informant status, 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route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "arrange-garden-waste-collection", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Arrange garden waste collection\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Manage household waste collections** in the **Rubbish, recycling and the street** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck the council's subscription, container and seasonal rules before arranging garden-waste collection or an alternative disposal route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Garden waste disposal](https://www.gov.uk/garden-waste-disposal)\n- [Scotland: Bins and recycling in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services/rubbish-and-recycling)\n- [Wales: Recycling and waste in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/recycling-waste-circular-economy)\n- [Northern Ireland: Rubbish, recycling and waste in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/environment-and-outdoors/waste-and-recycling)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Manage household waste collections**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Manage household waste collections", "source": "services/arrange-garden-waste-collection.md", "title": "Arrange garden waste collection within Manage household waste collections" }, "process": { "id": "manage-household-waste-collections", "route": "enclosing-process/manage-household-waste-collections", "title": "Manage household waste collections" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-bulky-waste-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-bulky-waste-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange bulky waste collection" }, { "id": "arrange-clinical-waste-collection", "relationship": 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action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Arrange newborn screening\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Start newborn healthcare** in the **Birth and the newborn period** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNavigate the newborn screening offers, consent conversations, results and follow-up handoffs.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Newborn screening](https://www.nhs.uk/baby/newborn-screening/)\n- [Scotland: Register a birth in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/register-birth)\n- [Wales: Children and families in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/children-families)\n- [Northern Ireland: Registering and naming your baby](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/registering-and-naming-your-baby)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Start newborn healthcare**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Start newborn healthcare", "source": "services/arrange-newborn-screening.md", "title": "Arrange newborn screening within Start newborn healthcare" }, "process": { "id": "start-newborn-healthcare", "route": "enclosing-process/start-newborn-healthcare", "title": "Start newborn healthcare" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-neonatal-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-neonatal-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access neonatal care" }, { "id": "register-newborn-with-health-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-newborn-with-health-services", "sequenced": false, 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"interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/023dd5c57b8b3f51155e502d", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/597058c462b6737479d5ea54", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-repatriation-after-death-arrange-repatriation-after-death-primary", "source_id": "arrange-repatriation-after-death-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/arrange-repatriation-after-death-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "arrange-repatriation-after-death-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "arrange-repatriation-after-death", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Arrange repatriation after death\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Certify, register, notify and arrange after death** in the **Death and bereavement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nContact local authorities, insurer, consular post and qualified funeral providers, obtain destination and transport documents and coordinate registration and funeral routes.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: What to do when someone dies abroad](https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/death-abroad)\n- [Scotland: What to do when someone dies abroad](https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/death-abroad)\n- [Wales: What to do when someone dies abroad](https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/death-abroad)\n- [Northern Ireland: What to do when someone dies abroad](https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/death-abroad)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Certify, register, notify and arrange after death**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Certify, register, notify and arrange after death", "source": "services/arrange-repatriation-after-death.md", "title": "Arrange repatriation after death within Certify, register, notify and arrange after death" }, "process": { "id": "certify-register-notify-and-arrange-after-death", "route": "enclosing-process/certify-register-notify-and-arrange-after-death", "title": "Certify, register, notify and arrange after death" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-burial-or-cremation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-burial-or-cremation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange burial or cremation" }, { "id": "arrange-funeral", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-funeral", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange a funeral" }, { "id": "claim-bereavement-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-bereavement-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim bereavement support" }, { "id": "notify-organisations-after-a-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/notify-organisations-after-a-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Notify organisations after a death" }, { "id": "obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a medical certificate of cause of death" }, { "id": "refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal", "sequenced": false, "title": "Refer a death to a coroner or procurator fiscal" }, { "id": "register-a-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-a-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a death" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f16f83479af72d51fae81fe7", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/41afab84434422484af12445" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/arrange-repatriation-after-death", "situations": [ "A person has died abroad and family are considering local arrangements or repatriation." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_death_abroad_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "arrange-repatriation-after-death-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not arrange transport, pay costs, establish foreign law or replace insurers, funeral providers and registrars." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/458a2fb9887bff1a4d3701cd", "resource_id": "resource:arrange-repatriation-after-death:arrange-repatriation-after-death-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/arrange-repatriation-after-death-arrange-repatriation-after-death-primary", "summary": "Routes bereaved people through local registration, consular contact, repatriation and UK notification considerations after a death abroad.", "title": "What to do when someone dies abroad", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/death-abroad" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Arrange repatriation after death", "user_needs": [ "Coordinate foreign, consular, insurance and UK territorial processes without recommending a provider." ] }, { "aliases": [ "free school transport", "travel assistance to school" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "arrange-school-transport-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "arrange-school-transport-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "school-years-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "school-years-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "school-years-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "school-years-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Find the council or education authority route for school travel assistance and any review process.", "domain": { "id": "school-years", "route": "life-course-domain/school-years", "title": "School years" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A child may need help travelling safely to and from school.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Find 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"supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/faaa6599ca352d1b7aa2c045", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/99fbe046e7a31580826145a2", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6b7a976284089ceed8147abd", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-school-transport-arrange-school-transport-primary", "source_id": "arrange-school-transport-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3b5490d7d7d543116b8ee52f", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-school-transport-school-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e3cb6757134fc5d63852eb50", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-school-transport-school-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f2186a7c71416217004cc04a", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-school-transport-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/arrange-school-transport-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "arrange-school-transport-primary", "school-years-scotland-handoff", "school-years-wales-handoff", "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to arrange school transport and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Find the council or education authority route for school travel assistance and any review process." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/399dec2229d2c31383b1e75e", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-school-transport-school-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2b6abf1d3675822107a38c29", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-school-transport-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/arrange-school-transport-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "arrange-school-transport-primary", "school-years-scotland-handoff", "school-years-wales-handoff", "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/efb8835f42bd1a44c85695e9", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7464c8a40ec458f7203d285f" }, "route": "service-episode/arrange-school-transport-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/346d1b66c2d3f8c270983c95", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/78a3c2cd0065aa41949758a9", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-school-transport-arrange-school-transport-primary", "source_id": "arrange-school-transport-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/305aafcb9bb8ced7f7c84891", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-school-transport-school-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/de86ff0c7b17477f4b5c1618", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-school-transport-school-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5de3d974cf1c0c27399fdbae", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-school-transport-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/arrange-school-transport-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "arrange-school-transport-primary", "school-years-scotland-handoff", "school-years-wales-handoff", "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "arrange-school-transport", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Arrange school transport\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter and attend school** in the **School years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind the council or education authority route for school travel assistance and any review process.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Free school transport](https://www.gov.uk/free-school-transport)\n- [Scotland: School education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter and attend school**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter and attend school", "source": "services/arrange-school-transport.md", "title": "Arrange school transport within Enter and attend school" }, "process": { "id": "enter-and-attend-school", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-and-attend-school", "title": "Enter and attend school" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "appeal-school-admission", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/appeal-school-admission", "sequenced": false, "title": "Appeal a school admission decision" }, { "id": "apply-for-free-school-meals", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-free-school-meals", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for free school meals" }, { "id": "apply-for-school-place", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-school-place", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for a school place" }, { "id": "choose-home-education", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/choose-home-education", "sequenced": false, "title": "Choose home education" }, { "id": "meet-school-attendance-duty", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/meet-school-attendance-duty", "sequenced": false, "title": "Meet school attendance duties" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bf072b0cc62707269431640d", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/646849f58a43a5e55e606262" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/arrange-school-transport", "situations": [ "A child may need 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"https://www.gov.uk/free-school-transport" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/50b3dc937d1ef8a004f3d372", "resource_id": "resource:arrange-school-transport:school-years-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/arrange-school-transport-school-years-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish school education services and support.", "title": "School education in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/89ac79fe29d141d3ede49e4d", "resource_id": "resource:arrange-school-transport:school-years-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/arrange-school-transport-school-years-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh education services, policy and support.", "title": "Education and skills in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/education-skills" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1983c52423f86bd5e681b4db", "resource_id": "resource:arrange-school-transport:school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/arrange-school-transport-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland education services and support.", "title": "Education in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Arrange school 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accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/46e725353a3ae2495430665c", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f6e0c7ccb9ae230cbacbe590", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-student-accommodation-arrange-student-accommodation-primary", "source_id": "arrange-student-accommodation-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/290e0cf7daa7bbe072528742", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-student-accommodation-post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bd9c1a870cf6d3ee194fcbda", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-student-accommodation-post-school-study-wales-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a5c3704e4159a703b9d63bba", "resource_route": "resource/arrange-student-accommodation-post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/arrange-student-accommodation-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "arrange-student-accommodation-primary", "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "arrange-student-accommodation", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Arrange student accommodation\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter and fund post-school study** in the **Further education, university and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCompare provider-managed and private student housing, then retain the applicable licence or tenancy terms.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Renting as a university student](https://www.gov.uk/private-renting/student-tenancies)\n- [Scotland: Further and higher education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Further and higher education in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Higher education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education/higher-education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter and fund post-school study**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter and fund post-school study", "source": "services/arrange-student-accommodation.md", "title": "Arrange student accommodation within Enter and fund post-school study" }, "process": { "id": "enter-and-fund-post-school-study", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-and-fund-post-school-study", "title": "Enter and fund post-school study" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-adult-skills-training", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-adult-skills-training", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access adult skills training" }, { "id": "apply-for-further-education-course", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-further-education-course", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for a further education course" }, { "id": "apply-to-university", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-to-university", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply to university" }, { "id": "claim-student-council-tax-disregard", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-student-council-tax-disregard", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim a student council tax disregard" }, { "id": "get-disabled-students-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-disabled-students-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Disabled Students' Allowance" }, { "id": "get-student-finance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-student-finance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get student finance" }, { "id": "register-with-health-services-as-student", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-with-health-services-as-student", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register with health services as a student" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b3165cf0d18fdddd0d8a6103", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/14504c45fa3deb78b11b6b10" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/arrange-student-accommodation", "situations": [ "A student needs accommodation for college or university study." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_student_private_renting_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "arrange-student-accommodation-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not recommend accommodation, inspect a property or interpret an individual contract." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9b72da7ba31469d7fa40452f", "resource_id": "resource:arrange-student-accommodation:arrange-student-accommodation-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/arrange-student-accommodation-arrange-student-accommodation-primary", "summary": "Explains current England tenancy and licence distinctions for university students.", "title": "Renting as a university student", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/private-renting/student-tenancies" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_post_school_study_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a course, funding, admission or research decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3dcb2aa2e673bac68975e0cb", "resource_id": "resource:arrange-student-accommodation:post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/arrange-student-accommodation-post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish college, university and student-support services.", "title": "Further and higher education in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_post_school_study_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a course, funding, admission or research decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", 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establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Arrange supported decision representation\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress** in the **Disability, care and support** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the specific decision and existing authority, then use the applicable advocacy, attorney, deputy, guardian or court route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Make decisions on behalf of someone](https://www.gov.uk/make-decisions-for-someone)\n- [Scotland: Health and social care in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/health-social-care)\n- [Wales: Social care in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/social-care)\n- [Northern Ireland: Caring for someone in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/caring-someone)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress", "source": "services/arrange-supported-decision-representation.md", "title": "Arrange supported decision representation within Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress" }, "process": { "id": "safeguard-capacity-mobility-and-care-redress", "route": "enclosing-process/safeguard-capacity-mobility-and-care-redress", "title": "Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-mobility-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-mobility-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access mobility support" }, { "id": "challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision", "sequenced": false, "title": "Challenge a care or disability-benefit decision" }, { "id": "get-mental-capacity-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-mental-capacity-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get mental-capacity support" }, { "id": "obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a workplace disability adjustment" }, { "id": "report-adult-safeguarding-concern", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-adult-safeguarding-concern", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report an adult safeguarding concern" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": 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deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Attend a driver awareness course\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Respond to road notices and penalties** in the **Transport enforcement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the named police or approved-provider offer to book and complete the stated course, preserving eligibility and failure boundaries.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Speeding penalties](https://www.gov.uk/speeding-penalties)\n- [Scotland: Road safety, parking tickets, fines and bans in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport/penalty-points-fines)\n- [Wales: Speeding penalties](https://www.gov.uk/speeding-penalties)\n- [Northern Ireland: Motoring offences in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/fixed-penalties-motoring-offences)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Respond to road notices and penalties**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Respond to road notices and penalties", "source": "services/attend-driver-awareness-course.md", "title": "Attend a driver awareness course within Respond to road notices and penalties" }, "process": { "id": "respond-to-road-notices-and-penalties", "route": "enclosing-process/respond-to-road-notices-and-penalties", "title": "Respond to road notices and penalties" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "accept-fixed-penalty", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/accept-fixed-penalty", "sequenced": false, "title": "Accept a fixed penalty" }, { "id": "challenge-private-parking-charge", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", 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"resource/become-a-foster-carer-before-birth-wales-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d7b5868145bc473d0cd02f12", "resource_route": "resource/become-a-foster-carer-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/become-a-foster-carer-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "become-a-foster-carer-primary", "before-birth-scotland-handoff", "before-birth-wales-handoff", "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not 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"reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f47e26cf0788d590edfb855f", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/37540d357f8ab7c2051f1713", "resource_route": "resource/become-a-foster-carer-become-a-foster-carer-primary", "source_id": "become-a-foster-carer-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/134f59b6f4d25e1672de8be2", "resource_route": "resource/become-a-foster-carer-before-birth-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b5ab9298b343b99e517e09b0", "resource_route": "resource/become-a-foster-carer-before-birth-wales-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4f2bdf49244ab7e058fedbc2", "resource_route": "resource/become-a-foster-carer-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/become-a-foster-carer-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "become-a-foster-carer-primary", "before-birth-scotland-handoff", "before-birth-wales-handoff", "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "become-a-foster-carer", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Become a foster carer\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Adoption, fostering and surrogacy** in the **Before birth and starting a family** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind the accountable fostering service and navigate enquiry, assessment, approval and review stages.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Becoming a foster parent in England](https://www.gov.uk/becoming-foster-parent)\n- [Scotland: Having a baby in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family/children-parenting/having-baby)\n- [Wales: Children and families in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/children-families)\n- [Northern Ireland: Family, home and community in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/family-home-and-community)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Adoption, fostering and surrogacy**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Adoption, fostering and surrogacy", "source": "services/become-a-foster-carer.md", "title": "Become a foster carer within Adoption, fostering and surrogacy" }, "process": { "id": "adoption-fostering-and-surrogacy", "route": "enclosing-process/adoption-fostering-and-surrogacy", "title": "Adoption, fostering and surrogacy" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-adoption", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-adoption", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange adoption" }, { "id": "pursue-surrogacy-parenthood", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/pursue-surrogacy-parenthood", "sequenced": false, "title": "Pursue surrogacy parenthood" }, { "id": "take-adoption-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-adoption-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take adoption leave" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/66de9bd06a2a83a6ae6ff9ae", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cc55bccfd4ab972f57186693" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/become-a-foster-carer", "situations": [ "A person or household is considering becoming a foster carer." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_fostering_service_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "become-a-foster-carer-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not approve a carer, recommend an agency or establish another nation's fostering process." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/048d680b7367f8a46d0a2efd", "resource_id": "resource:become-a-foster-carer:become-a-foster-carer-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/become-a-foster-carer-become-a-foster-carer-primary", "summary": "Routes prospective foster carers in England to local-authority or independent-agency assessment.", "title": "Becoming a foster parent in England", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/becoming-foster-parent" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_pregnancy_and_parenting_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "before-birth-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/83e52c69a535df51d1b44497", "resource_id": "resource:become-a-foster-carer:before-birth-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/become-a-foster-carer-before-birth-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Scotland to current pregnancy, birth and early-parenting services and support.", "title": "Having a baby in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family/children-parenting/having-baby" }, { "authority_role": "wales_children_and_families_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "before-birth-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bbabed7102b5b7fba5276539", "resource_id": "resource:become-a-foster-carer:before-birth-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/become-a-foster-carer-before-birth-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Wales to current children, family, pregnancy and early-years policy and services.", "title": "Children and families in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/children-families" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_family_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dc3a4d583f8d12221bf1927e", "resource_id": "resource:become-a-foster-carer:before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/become-a-foster-carer-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Northern Ireland to current family, pregnancy, birth and local support services.", "title": "Family, home and community in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/family-home-and-community" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Become a foster carer", "user_needs": [ "Find the current public or regulated fostering route and its decision and complaint handoff." ] }, { "aliases": [ "find government tender", "public procurement bid", "supplier contract opportunity" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "bid-for-public-contract-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "bid-for-public-contract-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "bid-for-public-contract-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "bid-for-public-contract-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "bid-for-public-contract-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "bid-for-public-contract-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "bid-for-public-contract-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "bid-for-public-contract-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Find the platform and procurement procedure for the contracting authority, read the notice and submit through its stated clarification and bid route.", "domain": { "id": "starting-and-running-organisation", "route": "life-course-domain/starting-and-running-organisation", "title": "Starting and running an organisation" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "An organisation wants to find or compete for a public-sector contract.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Find the platform and procurement procedure for the contracting authority, read the notice and submit through its stated clarification and bid route.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/61776657b055d8c65abc31c6", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8fb21ed0bbf8d4cfb27fc53a" }, "route": "service-episode/bid-for-public-contract-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b2ae3d3d18f5ac7ee765f38a", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5af9b9603ebf6c4b00ce85a9", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/48d86155d04012242875d2a2", "resource_route": "resource/bid-for-public-contract-bid-for-public-contract-primary", "source_id": "bid-for-public-contract-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/bid-for-public-contract-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "bid-for-public-contract-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to bid for a public contract and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Find the platform and procurement procedure for the contracting authority, read the notice and submit through its stated clarification and bid route." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3770c88069ba019abf3d2bca", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c70e4d8409004ed15e81e566", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1b5d9c8d70ad411f4d3ffafd", "resource_route": "resource/bid-for-public-contract-bid-for-public-contract-primary", "source_id": "bid-for-public-contract-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/bid-for-public-contract-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "bid-for-public-contract-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/da6947825d0fa6891aa9cec7", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/10bc963ac1b7b81fed8d9d9d" }, "route": "service-episode/bid-for-public-contract-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2891cecb457b7d5ace1c69d7", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c8e73b9815535cc28d1ae3dd", "resource_route": "resource/bid-for-public-contract-bid-for-public-contract-primary", "source_id": "bid-for-public-contract-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/bid-for-public-contract-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "bid-for-public-contract-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "bid-for-public-contract", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Bid for a public contract\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Operate, regulate and close an organisation** in the **Starting and running an organisation** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind the platform and procurement procedure for the contracting authority, read the notice and submit through its stated clarification and bid route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Find a Tender](https://www.gov.uk/find-tender)\n- [Scotland: Find a Tender](https://www.gov.uk/find-tender)\n- [Wales: Find a Tender](https://www.gov.uk/find-tender)\n- [Northern Ireland: Find a Tender](https://www.gov.uk/find-tender)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Operate, regulate and close an organisation**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Operate, regulate and close an organisation", "source": "services/bid-for-public-contract.md", "title": "Bid for a public contract within Operate, regulate and close an organisation" }, "process": { "id": "operate-regulate-and-close-an-organisation", "route": "enclosing-process/operate-regulate-and-close-an-organisation", "title": "Operate, regulate and close an organisation" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "close-or-insolvent-business", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/close-or-insolvent-business", "sequenced": false, "title": "Close or make a business insolvent" }, { "id": "meet-workplace-safety-duties", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/meet-workplace-safety-duties", "sequenced": false, "title": "Meet workplace safety duties" }, { "id": "obtain-business-licence", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-business-licence", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a business licence" }, { "id": "register-data-protection-fee", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-data-protection-fee", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a data-protection fee" }, { "id": "run-payroll", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/run-payroll", "sequenced": false, "title": "Run payroll" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c40a088d61ccd8d6c7515d07", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9c05740b96453f130d394e1f" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": 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even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Bring an employment dispute\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Protect safety, collective rights and redress** in the **Employment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nPreserve evidence and use internal resolution, conciliation and tribunal routes within current time boundaries.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Make a claim to an employment tribunal](https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunals)\n- [Scotland: Make a claim to an employment tribunal](https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunals)\n- [Wales: Make a claim to an employment tribunal](https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunals)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Protect safety, collective rights and redress**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Protect safety, collective rights and redress", "source": "services/bring-employment-dispute.md", "title": "Bring an employment dispute within Protect safety, collective rights and redress" }, "process": { "id": "protect-safety-collective-rights-and-redress", "route": "enclosing-process/protect-safety-collective-rights-and-redress", "title": "Protect safety, collective rights and redress" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-workplace-health-and-safety-protection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-workplace-health-and-safety-protection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get workplace health and safety protection" }, { "id": "join-or-use-trade-union", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/join-or-use-trade-union", "sequenced": false, "title": "Join or use a trade union" }, { "id": "report-workplace-injury", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-workplace-injury", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a workplace injury" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2e3dbe6a3b79cdaf120a5b09", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2250f9db43bafec352905423" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/bring-employment-dispute", "situations": [ "A worker or employer cannot resolve an employment-rights dispute." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_employment_tribunal_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "bring-employment-dispute-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not provide legal advice, calculate a deadline or predict an outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "HM Courts and Tribunals Service", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/51274169b1e6121ebd9b3eae", "resource_id": "resource:bring-employment-dispute:bring-employment-dispute-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/bring-employment-dispute-bring-employment-dispute-primary", "summary": "Explains Great Britain tribunal claim, response and hearing handoffs.", "title": "Make a claim to an employment tribunal", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunals" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_employment_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff", 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exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5c0f1f7ae6975ac4da92795a", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b0efb46d9c47d1c95b8253dd", "resource_route": "resource/buy-home-buy-home-primary", "source_id": "buy-home-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/856ab3a32997576955b413c5", "resource_route": "resource/buy-home-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3a79a4c577edac2ce19c30d6", "resource_route": "resource/buy-home-housing-community-wales-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3045455dd278b3f27f9d6f6e", "resource_route": "resource/buy-home-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/buy-home-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "buy-home-primary", "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "housing-community-wales-handoff", "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "buy-home", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Buy a home\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Secure and move home** in the **Housing and community life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNavigate finance, offer, survey, conveyancing, exchange and completion while keeping professional and land-registration responsibilities explicit.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: How to buy a home](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-to-buy-a-home)\n- [Scotland: Housing and local services in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services)\n- [Wales: Housing in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/housing)\n- [Northern Ireland: Property and housing in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/property-and-housing)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Secure and move home**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Secure and move home", "source": "services/buy-home.md", "title": "Buy a home within Secure and move home" }, "process": { "id": "secure-and-move-home", "route": "enclosing-process/secure-and-move-home", "title": "Secure and move home" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-social-housing", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-social-housing", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for social housing" }, { "id": "get-homelessness-help", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-homelessness-help", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get homelessness help" }, { "id": "move-home", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/move-home", "sequenced": false, "title": "Move home" }, { "id": "protect-tenancy-deposit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/protect-tenancy-deposit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Protect a tenancy deposit" }, { "id": "prove-right-to-rent", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/prove-right-to-rent", "sequenced": false, "title": "Prove the right to rent" }, { "id": "register-for-council-tax", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-for-council-tax", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register for Council Tax" }, { "id": "rent-private-home", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/rent-private-home", "sequenced": false, "title": "Rent a private home" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a6efaf6045d8f36bf6cf0a71", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/17df463d6225d6f4faf18aa0" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/buy-home", "situations": [ "A person is preparing to purchase a residential property." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_home_buying_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "buy-home-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not recommend property, finance, survey or legal providers or establish title." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1086f8e46d7e61c02a85fa6f", "resource_id": "resource:buy-home:buy-home-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/buy-home-buy-home-primary", "summary": "Provides England process guidance from preparation through completion.", "title": "How to buy a home", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-to-buy-a-home" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England housing rule or local route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c5465428871ef795a4c27cfa", "resource_id": "resource:buy-home:housing-community-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/buy-home-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish housing, planning, local-tax and neighbourhood services.", "title": "Housing and local services in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services" }, { "authority_role": "wales_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine a tenancy, planning, homelessness or adaptation decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a69ee40224efa39665725903", "resource_id": "resource:buy-home:housing-community-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/buy-home-housing-community-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh housing policy, support and service information.", "title": "Housing in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/housing" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "England, Scotland and Wales housing rules do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/579624a81d692900cf4e078a", "resource_id": "resource:buy-home:housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/buy-home-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland property, housing and local-service information.", "title": "Property and housing in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/property-and-housing" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Buy a home", "user_needs": [ "See the ordered buying process and verify regulated advisers without receiving financial or legal advice." ] }, { "aliases": [ "holiday insurance", "insurance for trip abroad", "cover medical costs overseas" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "buy-travel-insurance-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "buy-travel-insurance-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "buy-travel-insurance-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "buy-travel-insurance-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "buy-travel-insurance-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "buy-travel-insurance-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "buy-travel-insurance-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "buy-travel-insurance-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Match cover to destination, activities, health, cancellation and disruption needs, check exclusions and use regulated complaint routes where required.", "domain": { "id": "holidays-volunteering-and-living-overseas", "route": "life-course-domain/holidays-volunteering-and-living-overseas", "title": "Holidays, volunteering and living overseas" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A traveller wants financial protection for an overseas trip.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Match cover to destination, activities, health, cancellation and disruption needs, check exclusions and use regulated complaint routes where required.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ac231226beba4e71a4e052e9", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/94d108f7887ed50c97899206" }, "route": "service-episode/buy-travel-insurance-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/de5ba8e441214fdb55774ba5", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d13fd85491527da1f61ef507", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/02b9bae3a0542febd1e8f0f4", "resource_route": "resource/buy-travel-insurance-buy-travel-insurance-primary", "source_id": "buy-travel-insurance-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/buy-travel-insurance-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "buy-travel-insurance-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to buy travel insurance and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Match cover to destination, activities, health, cancellation and disruption needs, check exclusions and use regulated complaint routes where required." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c1eaabadca828f38999c4a5d", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7d26bdf40b0e53f1cf798c7d", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1ab7dfcdde7c1fc2d8b3a7e5", "resource_route": "resource/buy-travel-insurance-buy-travel-insurance-primary", "source_id": "buy-travel-insurance-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/buy-travel-insurance-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "buy-travel-insurance-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9c29643da064617f4b4a9408", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7c16ecdcd4de6e8bb3b3669e" }, "route": "service-episode/buy-travel-insurance-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3245fbe9dc7b2972c7da906d", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7a7c739d36b3292fe8a12a2d", "resource_route": "resource/buy-travel-insurance-buy-travel-insurance-primary", "source_id": "buy-travel-insurance-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/buy-travel-insurance-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "buy-travel-insurance-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "buy-travel-insurance", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Buy travel insurance\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Prepare for international travel** in the **Holidays, volunteering and living overseas** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nMatch cover to destination, activities, health, cancellation and disruption needs, check exclusions and use regulated complaint routes where required.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Foreign travel insurance](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/foreign-travel-insurance)\n- [Scotland: Foreign travel insurance](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/foreign-travel-insurance)\n- [Wales: Foreign travel insurance](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/foreign-travel-insurance)\n- [Northern Ireland: Foreign travel insurance](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/foreign-travel-insurance)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Prepare for international travel**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Prepare for international travel", "source": "services/buy-travel-insurance.md", "title": "Buy travel insurance within Prepare for international travel" }, "process": { "id": "prepare-for-international-travel", "route": "enclosing-process/prepare-for-international-travel", "title": "Prepare for international travel" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "check-entry-requirements", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-entry-requirements", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check entry requirements" }, { "id": "check-foreign-travel-advice", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-foreign-travel-advice", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check foreign travel advice" }, { "id": "declare-goods-at-customs", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/declare-goods-at-customs", "sequenced": false, "title": "Declare goods at customs" }, { "id": "drive-abroad", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/drive-abroad", "sequenced": false, "title": "Drive abroad" }, { "id": "get-travel-vaccination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-travel-vaccination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a travel vaccination" }, { "id": "obtain-ghic-or-ehic", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-ghic-or-ehic", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a GHIC or EHIC" }, { "id": "renew-passport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/renew-passport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Renew a passport" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f5970158bdf62c8ab52f06f6", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e0efdf8f42f2cf7a36db5a25" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/buy-travel-insurance", "situations": [ "A traveller wants financial protection for an overseas trip." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_travel_insurance_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "buy-travel-insurance-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not recommend a product, decide coverage or resolve an insurance claim." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ddf33b43fd8fedc18b4924ae", "resource_id": "resource:buy-travel-insurance:buy-travel-insurance-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/buy-travel-insurance-buy-travel-insurance-primary", "summary": "Explains why cover, disclosure, exclusions, activities and destination advice matter for overseas travel.", "title": "Foreign travel insurance", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/guidance/foreign-travel-insurance" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Buy travel insurance", "user_needs": [ "Use public guidance and regulated-provider checks without a product recommendation." ] }, { "aliases": [ "call 999 or 112", "immediate police fire ambulance", "emergency help" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "call-emergency-services-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "call-emergency-services-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "police-legal-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "call-emergency-services-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "call-emergency-services-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Use 999 or 112 for an immediate threat to life, serious injury, fire or crime in progress and give the call handler the requested location and facts.", "domain": { "id": "police-and-legal-services", "route": "life-course-domain/police-and-legal-services", "title": "Police and legal services" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A situation may require immediate police", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Use 999 or 112 for an immediate threat to life, serious injury, fire or crime in progress and give the call handler the requested location and facts.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/96d1e707f9f11b02d857d095", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f7681fab31b016ba02b12b93" }, "route": "service-episode/call-emergency-services-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f2409110fc6032edda783e34", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9deadbc8ffc03e0c9c7c307c", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7f1f6358dc018d5b99067790", "resource_route": "resource/call-emergency-services-call-emergency-services-primary", "source_id": "call-emergency-services-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c8ccddab71c204214230de0d", "resource_route": "resource/call-emergency-services-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ab8793f84047e3f9ab86c096", "resource_route": "resource/call-emergency-services-police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/call-emergency-services-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "call-emergency-services-primary", "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to call emergency services and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use 999 or 112 for an immediate threat to life, serious injury, fire or crime in progress and give the call handler the requested location and facts." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a06fb4085f494295ccd1c23b", "follows_previous": 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"family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/eada44e092721f50a0673100" }, "route": "service-episode/call-emergency-services-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2660acb185649136e55da8c6", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9ea9b45fd43deb87bd07c181", "resource_route": "resource/call-emergency-services-call-emergency-services-primary", "source_id": "call-emergency-services-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/38e89430b8383c41993c8eb4", "resource_route": "resource/call-emergency-services-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6d6ce3512113424a174ddcb9", "resource_route": "resource/call-emergency-services-police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/call-emergency-services-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "call-emergency-services-primary", "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "call-emergency-services", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Call emergency services\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Report emergencies, crime and harm** in the **Police and legal services** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse 999 or 112 for an immediate threat to life, serious injury, fire or crime in progress and give the call handler the requested location and facts.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Contact the police](https://www.gov.uk/contact-police)\n- [Scotland: Crime, justice and the law in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/crime-justice-law)\n- [Wales: Contact the police](https://www.gov.uk/contact-police)\n- [Northern Ireland: Crime, justice and the law in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/crime-justice-and-law)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Report emergencies, crime and harm**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Report emergencies, crime and harm", "source": "services/call-emergency-services.md", "title": "Call emergency services within Report emergencies, crime and harm" }, "process": { "id": "report-emergencies-crime-and-harm", "route": "enclosing-process/report-emergencies-crime-and-harm", "title": "Report emergencies, crime and harm" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-victim-or-witness-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-victim-or-witness-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get victim or witness support" }, { "id": "report-antisocial-behaviour", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-antisocial-behaviour", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report antisocial behaviour" }, { "id": "report-crime", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-crime", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a crime" }, { "id": "report-fraud", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-fraud", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report fraud" }, { "id": "report-hate-crime", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-hate-crime", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report hate crime" }, { "id": "report-missing-person", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-missing-person", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a missing person" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/774c63723c754b71f285eb55", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/78617dd9a75cdb5b817bc9a7" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/call-emergency-services", "situations": [ "A situation may require immediate police, fire, ambulance, coastguard or other emergency response." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_police_contact_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "call-emergency-services-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not dispatch a service, assess urgency or replace 999 or 112." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Home Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9fa1f777df7905640ac8268f", "resource_id": "resource:call-emergency-services:call-emergency-services-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/call-emergency-services-call-emergency-services-primary", "summary": "States the 999 emergency boundary and routes non-emergency police contact.", "title": "Contact the police", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/contact-police" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_police_legal_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not provide emergency response, legal advice or an individual court or appeal route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b07ac5a3823cb154cc1320ff", "resource_id": "resource:call-emergency-services:police-legal-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/call-emergency-services-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish police, victim support, legal aid, courts and 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policing, victims, legal help, courts and tribunal services.", "title": "Crime, justice and the law in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/crime-justice-and-law" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Call emergency services", "user_needs": [ "Recognise the emergency boundary and avoid delaying contact while searching the bundle." ] }, { "aliases": [ "online purchase cooling off period", "cancel phone order", "return internet purchase" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "cancel-distance-contract-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "cancel-distance-contract-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", 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condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Cancel a distance contract\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Exercise contract and remedy rights** in the **Shopping and consumer rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNotify the trader through a durable route and preserve dispatch, delivery, cancellation and return evidence under the applicable contract rules.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Online and distance selling](https://www.gov.uk/online-and-distance-selling-for-businesses)\n- [Scotland: Consumer rights in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/consumer-rights)\n- [Wales: Online and distance selling](https://www.gov.uk/online-and-distance-selling-for-businesses)\n- [Northern Ireland: Consumer rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Exercise contract and remedy rights**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Exercise contract and remedy rights", "source": "services/cancel-distance-contract.md", "title": "Cancel a distance contract within Exercise contract and remedy rights" }, "process": { "id": "exercise-contract-and-remedy-rights", "route": "enclosing-process/exercise-contract-and-remedy-rights", "title": "Exercise contract and remedy rights" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "challenge-unfair-contract-term", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/challenge-unfair-contract-term", "sequenced": false, "title": "Challenge an unfair contract term" }, { "id": "exercise-consumer-rights-for-goods", "relationship": 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"service-step/challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision-primary", "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "disability-care-wales-handoff", "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Challenge a care or disability-benefit decision\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress** in the **Disability, care and support** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nRead the exact decision, identify whether review, complaint or appeal applies and use its current evidence, deadline and escalation route promptly.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Challenge a benefit decision by mandatory reconsideration](https://www.gov.uk/mandatory-reconsideration)\n- [Scotland: Health and social care in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/health-social-care)\n- [Wales: Social care in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/social-care)\n- [Northern Ireland: Caring for someone in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/caring-someone)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress", "source": "services/challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision.md", "title": "Challenge a care or disability-benefit decision within Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress" }, "process": { "id": "safeguard-capacity-mobility-and-care-redress", "route": "enclosing-process/safeguard-capacity-mobility-and-care-redress", "title": "Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-mobility-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-mobility-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access mobility support" }, { "id": "arrange-supported-decision-representation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-supported-decision-representation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange supported decision representation" }, { "id": "get-mental-capacity-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-mental-capacity-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get mental-capacity support" }, { "id": "obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a workplace disability adjustment" }, { "id": "report-adult-safeguarding-concern", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-adult-safeguarding-concern", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report an adult safeguarding concern" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/aa028b943b4e2d7132759c7e", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4b41e7700ffdb89d24dd6b66" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision", "situations": [ "A person disagrees with a care assessment, support decision or disability-benefit decision." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_benefit_reconsideration_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not cover local care complaints, every benefit, Northern Ireland procedure, deadlines or appeal merits." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Work and Pensions", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/317e7504c9696ed9a071165d", "resource_id": "resource:challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision:challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision-challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision-primary", "summary": "Explains the Great Britain mandatory-reconsideration route for covered benefit decisions.", "title": "Challenge a benefit decision by mandatory reconsideration", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/mandatory-reconsideration" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine eligibility, local provision, capacity, safeguarding action or redress." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a571e864a778fa2fc50ec4d2", "resource_id": "resource:challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision:disability-care-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish disability, care, capacity, support and benefit services.", "title": "Health and social care in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/health-social-care" }, { "authority_role": "wales_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify an individual local authority route or decide eligibility or safeguarding action." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1bf2cbec4d1d629462b8f790", "resource_id": "resource:challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision:disability-care-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision-disability-care-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh social-care policy and applicable local service information.", "title": "Social care in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/social-care" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify every trust service or decide eligibility, capacity or safeguarding action." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e8762791d0ef927229c5c854", "resource_id": "resource:challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision:disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland carer, disability, benefit and care information.", "title": "Caring for someone in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/caring-someone" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Challenge a care or disability-benefit decision", "user_needs": [ "Select the decision-specific remedy without the bundle calculating time, grounds or prospects." ] }, { "aliases": [ "private parking ticket", "parking company invoice", "appeal parking charge notice" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "challenge-private-parking-charge-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "challenge-private-parking-charge-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "challenge-private-parking-charge-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "challenge-private-parking-charge-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Check the operator and land arrangement, preserve the signs and correspondence and use the applicable operator and independent appeal route.", "domain": { "id": "transport-enforcement", "route": "life-course-domain/transport-enforcement", "title": "Transport enforcement" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A vehicle keeper or driver has received a charge from a private parking operator.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Check the operator and land arrangement, preserve the signs and correspondence and use the applicable operator and independent appeal route.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/41299a1fa92d4bfbb2e7dfeb", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f73945df0552f62e2b245235" }, "route": "service-episode/challenge-private-parking-charge-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9a1e2b2c1d8f069116b9baaa", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7779983f8bdeb00af0a88c56", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d1957071d672468ecb2310ca", "resource_route": "resource/challenge-private-parking-charge-challenge-private-parking-charge-primary", "source_id": "challenge-private-parking-charge-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3fff270dba8b9a2c3dd81b58", "resource_route": "resource/challenge-private-parking-charge-transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5c7061a4bf025c763b1e49e6", "resource_route": "resource/challenge-private-parking-charge-transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/challenge-private-parking-charge-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "challenge-private-parking-charge-primary", "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to challenge a private parking charge and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Check the operator and land arrangement, preserve the signs and correspondence and use the applicable operator and independent appeal route." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, 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"transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/24c4911179361cf09750fc2d", "resource_route": "resource/challenge-private-parking-charge-transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/challenge-private-parking-charge-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "challenge-private-parking-charge-primary", "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f0f8187c6b9cad5577c6ed98", "resource_route": "resource/challenge-private-parking-charge-challenge-private-parking-charge-primary", "source_id": "challenge-private-parking-charge-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/be6e350a766bdfede63feb62", "resource_route": "resource/challenge-private-parking-charge-transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7f8befb54fe745d70623f2a4", "resource_route": "resource/challenge-private-parking-charge-transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/challenge-private-parking-charge-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "challenge-private-parking-charge-primary", "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "challenge-private-parking-charge", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Challenge a private parking charge\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Respond to road notices and penalties** in the **Transport enforcement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck the operator and land arrangement, preserve the signs and correspondence and use the applicable operator and independent appeal route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Private parking tickets](https://www.gov.uk/parking-tickets/private-parking-tickets)\n- [Scotland: Road safety, parking tickets, fines and bans in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport/penalty-points-fines)\n- [Wales: Private parking tickets](https://www.gov.uk/parking-tickets/private-parking-tickets)\n- [Northern Ireland: Motoring offences in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/fixed-penalties-motoring-offences)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Respond to road notices and penalties**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Respond to road notices and penalties", "source": "services/challenge-private-parking-charge.md", "title": "Challenge a private parking charge within Respond to road notices and penalties" }, "process": { "id": "respond-to-road-notices-and-penalties", "route": "enclosing-process/respond-to-road-notices-and-penalties", "title": "Respond to road notices and penalties" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "accept-fixed-penalty", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/accept-fixed-penalty", "sequenced": false, "title": "Accept a fixed penalty" }, { "id": "attend-driver-awareness-course", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/attend-driver-awareness-course", "sequenced": false, "title": "Attend a driver awareness course" }, { "id": "identify-driver-after-road-offence", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/identify-driver-after-road-offence", "sequenced": false, "title": "Identify the driver after a road offence" }, { "id": "manage-penalty-points", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/manage-penalty-points", "sequenced": false, "title": "Manage penalty points" }, { "id": "respond-to-council-parking-penalty", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/respond-to-council-parking-penalty", "sequenced": false, "title": "Respond to a council parking penalty" }, { "id": "respond-to-speeding-notice", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/respond-to-speeding-notice", "sequenced": false, "title": "Respond to a speeding notice" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/08bdb6db9c3bf6ac99e121b5", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9b59011bd25685435d9cae02" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/challenge-private-parking-charge", "situations": [ "A vehicle keeper or driver has received a charge from a private parking operator." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_private_parking_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "challenge-private-parking-charge-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide contract formation, liability, keeper responsibility or a court defence." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d745dd6b1b78e6a69d36a79a", "resource_id": "resource:challenge-private-parking-charge:challenge-private-parking-charge-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/challenge-private-parking-charge-challenge-private-parking-charge-primary", "summary": "Explains private parking charge and accredited appeal handoffs.", "title": "Private parking tickets", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/parking-tickets/private-parking-tickets" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transport_enforcement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine whether a notice, penalty, prosecution or appeal is valid." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4d788d1b1acc1bd2ed5e5735", "resource_id": "resource:challenge-private-parking-charge:transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/challenge-private-parking-charge-transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish road-safety, parking, fine and driving-ban information.", "title": "Road safety, parking tickets, fines and bans in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport/penalty-points-fines" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transport_enforcement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "England, Wales and Scotland enforcement routes do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/25c9e316439f3b4acfb1ff82", "resource_id": "resource:challenge-private-parking-charge:transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/challenge-private-parking-charge-transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland motoring-offence, penalty and court information.", "title": "Motoring offences in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/fixed-penalties-motoring-offences" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Challenge a private parking charge", "user_needs": [ "Distinguish a contractual charge from a statutory penalty and start with accredited-operator redress." ] }, { "aliases": [ "appeal school exclusion", "suspended or expelled from school" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "challenge-school-exclusion-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "challenge-school-exclusion-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "school-years-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "school-years-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "school-years-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "school-years-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Follow the review and challenge route after a pupil is suspended or permanently excluded.", "domain": { "id": "school-years", "route": "life-course-domain/school-years", "title": "School years" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A pupil has received a suspension or permanent-exclusion decision.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Follow the review and challenge route after a pupil is suspended or permanently excluded.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9d4d00cc8add0ab37fb2e00a", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/eb726f06baff9d80ec609b89" }, "route": "service-episode/challenge-school-exclusion-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3b315795065aca5ccbd6361c", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/258b025350d33e252b396f45", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dc6eb00adba596e055d7eac1", "resource_route": "resource/challenge-school-exclusion-challenge-school-exclusion-primary", "source_id": "challenge-school-exclusion-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c22b3ba8bc907bbcaa4e1f15", "resource_route": "resource/challenge-school-exclusion-school-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c7d77bf640ad0444cd506c41", "resource_route": "resource/challenge-school-exclusion-school-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/beca5e5e53642c27e207a077", "resource_route": "resource/challenge-school-exclusion-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/challenge-school-exclusion-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "challenge-school-exclusion-primary", "school-years-scotland-handoff", "school-years-wales-handoff", "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to challenge a school exclusion and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Follow the review and challenge route after a pupil is suspended or permanently excluded." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cc954234fc30d8b99a759c32", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cbc3f43b5defb783adb193b6", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6a077b6590523082ae792633", "resource_route": "resource/challenge-school-exclusion-challenge-school-exclusion-primary", "source_id": "challenge-school-exclusion-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/be6881beab4f67f731d0e10f", "resource_route": "resource/challenge-school-exclusion-school-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2a8a4a4349396628c66fb1c9", "resource_route": "resource/challenge-school-exclusion-school-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b2dedc96e0ba6d2780d94f86", "resource_route": "resource/challenge-school-exclusion-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/challenge-school-exclusion-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "challenge-school-exclusion-primary", "school-years-scotland-handoff", "school-years-wales-handoff", "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b75bdfd608713ca2d40a028b", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/12b6820fad8bc4afc4f38062" }, "route": "service-episode/challenge-school-exclusion-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/48478362104ca65a2187ce51", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/db0a297f510c645c3835e6b7", "resource_route": "resource/challenge-school-exclusion-challenge-school-exclusion-primary", "source_id": "challenge-school-exclusion-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0ccab690729b66bf39e84780", "resource_route": "resource/challenge-school-exclusion-school-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/82c006e165429be9c89071a5", "resource_route": "resource/challenge-school-exclusion-school-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6e456d35e90e579809cee808", "resource_route": "resource/challenge-school-exclusion-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/challenge-school-exclusion-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "challenge-school-exclusion-primary", "school-years-scotland-handoff", "school-years-wales-handoff", "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "challenge-school-exclusion", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Challenge a school exclusion\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Receive school support and outcomes** in the **School years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFollow the review and challenge route after a pupil is suspended or permanently excluded.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: School discipline and exclusions](https://www.gov.uk/school-discipline-exclusions/exclusions)\n- [Scotland: School education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Receive school support and outcomes**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Receive school support and outcomes", "source": "services/challenge-school-exclusion.md", "title": "Challenge a school exclusion within Receive school support and outcomes" }, "process": { "id": "receive-school-support-and-outcomes", "route": "enclosing-process/receive-school-support-and-outcomes", "title": "Receive school support and outcomes" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-school-health", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-school-health", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access school health support" }, { "id": "get-school-send-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-school-send-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get school SEND support" }, { "id": "report-school-safeguarding-concern", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-school-safeguarding-concern", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a school safeguarding concern" }, { "id": "sit-public-examinations", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/sit-public-examinations", "sequenced": false, "title": "Sit public examinations" }, { "id": "support-child-in-care-education", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/support-child-in-care-education", "sequenced": false, "title": "Support a child in care in education" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c1832a2f78686bf10733cacf", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/678cfe8ac0788cbb84ceb059" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/challenge-school-exclusion", "situations": [ "A pupil has received a suspension or permanent-exclusion decision." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_school_exclusion_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "challenge-school-exclusion-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide the merits or provide legal advice." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5306445a99458803431b42d7", "resource_id": "resource:challenge-school-exclusion:challenge-school-exclusion-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/challenge-school-exclusion-challenge-school-exclusion-primary", "summary": "Explains England suspension, exclusion and challenge routes.", "title": "School discipline and exclusions", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/school-discipline-exclusions/exclusions" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/436eccc3e9b89176c2166607", "resource_id": "resource:challenge-school-exclusion:school-years-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/challenge-school-exclusion-school-years-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish school education services and support.", "title": "School education in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/459f2da7c51917394a7aa36e", "resource_id": "resource:challenge-school-exclusion:school-years-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/challenge-school-exclusion-school-years-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh education services, policy and support.", "title": "Education and skills in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/education-skills" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/92ddf6c3c56bd032b6d7b113", "resource_id": "resource:challenge-school-exclusion:school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/challenge-school-exclusion-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland education services and support.", "title": "Education in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Challenge a school exclusion", "user_needs": [ "Understand the decision record, governing-body review and independent-review boundary." ] }, { "aliases": [ "unfair small print", "excessive cancellation clause", "consumer contract term complaint" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "challenge-unfair-contract-term-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "challenge-unfair-contract-term-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "challenge-unfair-contract-term-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "challenge-unfair-contract-term-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Preserve the contract and trader communications, state the disputed effect and use advice, regulator, ombudsman or court routes as 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response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Challenge an unfair contract term\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Exercise contract and remedy rights** in the **Shopping and consumer rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nPreserve the contract and trader communications, state the disputed effect and use advice, regulator, ombudsman or court routes as applicable.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Unfair terms in consumer contracts](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/unfair-contract-terms-cma37)\n- [Scotland: Consumer rights in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/consumer-rights)\n- [Wales: Unfair terms in consumer contracts](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/unfair-contract-terms-cma37)\n- [Northern Ireland: Consumer rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Exercise contract and remedy rights**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Exercise contract and remedy rights", "source": "services/challenge-unfair-contract-term.md", "title": "Challenge an unfair contract term within Exercise contract and remedy rights" }, "process": { "id": "exercise-contract-and-remedy-rights", "route": "enclosing-process/exercise-contract-and-remedy-rights", "title": "Exercise contract and remedy rights" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "cancel-distance-contract", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/cancel-distance-contract", "sequenced": false, "title": "Cancel a distance contract" }, { "id": "exercise-consumer-rights-for-goods", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/exercise-consumer-rights-for-goods", "sequenced": false, "title": "Exercise consumer rights for goods" }, { "id": "exercise-consumer-rights-for-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/exercise-consumer-rights-for-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Exercise consumer rights for services" }, { "id": "exercise-digital-content-rights", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/exercise-digital-content-rights", "sequenced": false, "title": "Exercise digital content rights" }, { "id": "resolve-consumer-credit-dispute", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/resolve-consumer-credit-dispute", "sequenced": false, "title": "Resolve a consumer credit dispute" }, { "id": "seek-refund-repair-or-replacement", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/seek-refund-repair-or-replacement", "sequenced": false, "title": "Seek a refund, repair or replacement" } ], 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4923875186ce6f08739088f0", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dc2dbc993f77f1709027b524", "resource_route": "resource/change-name-change-name-primary", "source_id": "change-name-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dba295804b6d33b536d5cef0", "resource_route": "resource/change-name-family-change-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/abcc56a3cf4bf98b1b8c080b", "resource_route": "resource/change-name-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/change-name-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "change-name-primary", "family-change-scotland-handoff", "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4edca68455865eab88cf705d", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a8e0b8c781a0a747a42ca15b" }, "route": "service-episode/change-name-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8b1846c5e60783c7fabfbc9b", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/98e068e8f3a2546b7a8d4db3", "resource_route": "resource/change-name-change-name-primary", "source_id": "change-name-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/68a04d4de29e3b16b4bf0fa3", "resource_route": "resource/change-name-family-change-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2e3642d35bbf81652edf7253", "resource_route": "resource/change-name-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/change-name-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "change-name-primary", "family-change-scotland-handoff", "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "change-name", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Change name\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Form, change and support family relationships** in the **Relationships and family change** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nChoose an accepted evidence route for the intended name change and update each public or private record through its current process.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Change your name by deed poll](https://www.gov.uk/change-name-deed-poll)\n- [Scotland: Births, deaths and family in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family)\n- [Wales: Change your name by deed poll](https://www.gov.uk/change-name-deed-poll)\n- [Northern Ireland: Find out your rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/find-out-your-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Form, change and support family relationships**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Form, change and support family relationships", "source": "services/change-name.md", "title": "Change name within Form, change and support family relationships" }, "process": { "id": "form-change-and-support-family-relationships", "route": "enclosing-process/form-change-and-support-family-relationships", "title": "Form, change and support family relationships" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "adopt-child", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/adopt-child", "sequenced": false, "title": "Adopt a child" }, { "id": "arrange-child-maintenance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-child-maintenance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange child maintenance" }, { "id": "divorce-or-dissolve-partnership", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/divorce-or-dissolve-partnership", "sequenced": false, "title": "Divorce or dissolve a partnership" }, { "id": "form-civil-partnership", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/form-civil-partnership", "sequenced": false, "title": "Form a civil partnership" }, { "id": "marry", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/marry", "sequenced": false, "title": "Marry" }, { "id": "resolve-parental-responsibility", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/resolve-parental-responsibility", "sequenced": false, "title": "Resolve parental responsibility" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d844708fcd75f419354478d8", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/488e60bd3525f7c93f3538bd" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/change-name", "situations": [ "A person wants organisations and official records to use a different name." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_deed_poll_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "change-name-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not update records automatically or establish Scotland or Northern Ireland evidence rules." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "HM Courts and Tribunals Service", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/462e8eb35f78553916b67dc3", "resource_id": "resource:change-name:change-name-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/change-name-change-name-primary", "summary": "Explains England and Wales enrolled and unenrolled deed-poll routes and related evidence.", "title": "Change your name by deed poll", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/change-name-deed-poll" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_family_change_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "family-change-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine status, legal rights, eligibility, safeguarding action or an individual court route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/df6da541855996d3f2250498", "resource_id": "resource:change-name:family-change-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/change-name-family-change-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish marriage, civil partnership, family, care and representation information.", "title": "Births, deaths and family in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_family_change_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish the applicable court, safeguarding, care or representation route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e273457ded8fb4d947cec128", "resource_id": "resource:change-name:family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/change-name-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Introduces Northern Ireland marriage, civil partnership, separation, parental-responsibility, family-safety and wider rights handoffs.", "title": "Find out your rights in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/find-out-your-rights" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Change name", "user_needs": [ "Distinguish evidence of a name change from the separate work of updating each record." ] }, { "aliases": [ "is my child British", "child citizenship status" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "check-child-nationality-status-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "check-child-nationality-status-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "check-child-nationality-status-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "check-child-nationality-status-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "check-child-nationality-status-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "check-child-nationality-status-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "check-child-nationality-status-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "check-child-nationality-status-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Use current official nationality guidance before applying for evidence, registration or a passport.", "domain": { "id": "birth-and-newborn", "route": "life-course-domain/birth-and-newborn", "title": "Birth and the newborn period" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A parent or responsible adult needs to understand which nationality or citizenship route may apply to a child.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Use current official nationality guidance before applying for evidence, registration or a passport.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8438a30b837229f1665c7bba", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7e4c73b7deacb6cecbce48e7" }, "route": "service-episode/check-child-nationality-status-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/56f6d24d173844080858748a", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b09fcd35320f346ade5f139a", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/14bc86e58185f780501f0cae", "resource_route": "resource/check-child-nationality-status-check-child-nationality-status-primary", "source_id": "check-child-nationality-status-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/check-child-nationality-status-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "check-child-nationality-status-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to check a child's nationality status and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use current official nationality guidance before applying for evidence, registration or a passport." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a6c96401fe4b6a5c9975fc84", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/423060f7f183db7cab1b10c1", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f73c6f2f361da103c27c3968", "resource_route": "resource/check-child-nationality-status-check-child-nationality-status-primary", "source_id": "check-child-nationality-status-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/check-child-nationality-status-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "check-child-nationality-status-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8c5dadce92a9bb16529d2738", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b011d0da9a09a2721d130ac8" }, "route": "service-episode/check-child-nationality-status-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/145ee15546f2409a2d297c73", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f14612ddd1cfb4a19b7a90ea", "resource_route": "resource/check-child-nationality-status-check-child-nationality-status-primary", "source_id": "check-child-nationality-status-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/check-child-nationality-status-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "check-child-nationality-status-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "check-child-nationality-status", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Check a child's nationality status\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish a child's legal identity** in the **Birth and the newborn period** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse current official nationality guidance before applying for evidence, registration or a passport.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Check if you're a British citizen](https://www.gov.uk/check-british-citizenship)\n- [Scotland: Check if you're a British citizen](https://www.gov.uk/check-british-citizenship)\n- [Wales: Check if you're a British citizen](https://www.gov.uk/check-british-citizenship)\n- [Northern Ireland: Check if you're a British citizen](https://www.gov.uk/check-british-citizenship)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish a child's legal identity**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish a child's legal identity", "source": "services/check-child-nationality-status.md", "title": "Check a child's nationality status within Establish a child's legal identity" }, "process": { "id": "establish-a-childs-legal-identity", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-a-childs-legal-identity", "title": "Establish a child's legal identity" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-child-benefit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-child-benefit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Child Benefit" }, { "id": "correct-a-birth-registration", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/correct-a-birth-registration", "sequenced": false, "title": "Correct a birth registration" }, { "id": "establish-parental-responsibility", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/establish-parental-responsibility", "sequenced": false, "title": "Establish parental responsibility" }, { "id": "obtain-birth-certificates", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-birth-certificates", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain birth certificates" }, { "id": "obtain-child-passport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-child-passport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a child passport" }, { "id": "register-a-birth", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-a-birth", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a birth" }, { "id": "register-a-stillbirth", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-a-stillbirth", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a 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"interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Check employment status\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish employment terms, pay and leave** in the **Employment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse official tax and rights guidance to identify the status questions an accountable authority or tribunal decides.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Employment status](https://www.gov.uk/employment-status)\n- [Scotland: Employment status](https://www.gov.uk/employment-status)\n- [Wales: Employment status](https://www.gov.uk/employment-status)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish employment terms, pay and leave**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish employment terms, pay and leave", "source": "services/check-employment-status.md", "title": "Check employment status within Establish employment terms, pay and leave" }, "process": { "id": "establish-employment-terms-pay-and-leave", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-employment-terms-pay-and-leave", "title": "Establish employment terms, pay and leave" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-statutory-sick-pay", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-statutory-sick-pay", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Statutory Sick Pay" }, { "id": "join-workplace-pension", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": 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safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "check-entry-requirements-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "check-entry-requirements", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Check entry requirements\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Prepare for international travel** in the **Holidays, volunteering and living overseas** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSelect the destination advice, confirm passport, visa, transit and border requirements with the responsible authorities and recheck before travel.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Foreign travel advice](https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice)\n- [Scotland: Foreign travel advice](https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice)\n- [Wales: Foreign travel advice](https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice)\n- [Northern Ireland: Foreign travel advice](https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Prepare for international travel**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Prepare for international travel", "source": "services/check-entry-requirements.md", "title": "Check entry requirements within Prepare for international travel" }, "process": { "id": "prepare-for-international-travel", "route": "enclosing-process/prepare-for-international-travel", "title": "Prepare for international travel" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "buy-travel-insurance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/buy-travel-insurance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Buy travel insurance" }, { "id": "check-foreign-travel-advice", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-foreign-travel-advice", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check foreign travel advice" }, { "id": "declare-goods-at-customs", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/declare-goods-at-customs", "sequenced": false, "title": "Declare goods at customs" }, { "id": "drive-abroad", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/drive-abroad", "sequenced": false, "title": "Drive abroad" }, { "id": "get-travel-vaccination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-travel-vaccination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a travel vaccination" }, { "id": "obtain-ghic-or-ehic", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-ghic-or-ehic", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a GHIC or EHIC" }, { "id": "renew-passport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/renew-passport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Renew a passport" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/717938868ce4fc700a703ecb", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fc38721c1484e31691539092" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/check-entry-requirements", "situations": [ "A traveller needs to understand the conditions for entering or transiting another country." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_destination_entry_advice_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "check-entry-requirements-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not grant entry, replace the destination authority or guarantee that conditions will not change." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f45c62b0175a41ab5ff50d3b", "resource_id": "resource:check-entry-requirements:check-entry-requirements-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/check-entry-requirements-check-entry-requirements-primary", "summary": "Routes travellers to country pages containing current entry, passport, visa and transit advice.", "title": "Foreign travel advice", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Check entry requirements", "user_needs": [ "Find authoritative current requirements without the bundle deciding admissibility." ] }, { "aliases": [ "is destination safe", "FCDO travel warning", "country travel advice" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "check-foreign-travel-advice-primary", "provider": 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"summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e745616d3c1b6384816f6ca8", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0170f160bffccbface697a05", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cb483fbd82d58430e027d5af", "resource_route": "resource/check-foreign-travel-advice-check-foreign-travel-advice-primary", "source_id": "check-foreign-travel-advice-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/check-foreign-travel-advice-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": 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evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/check-foreign-travel-advice-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "check-foreign-travel-advice-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8732cf9132dc4948e1aa956e", "family_episode": 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state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/98b3e3a97844f1cd0c963ecd", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a0f42bf3f9853767b1412423", "resource_route": "resource/check-foreign-travel-advice-check-foreign-travel-advice-primary", "source_id": "check-foreign-travel-advice-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/check-foreign-travel-advice-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "check-foreign-travel-advice-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "check-foreign-travel-advice", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Check foreign travel advice\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Prepare for international travel** in the **Holidays, volunteering and living overseas** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nRead the current destination advice, understand its geographic and risk scope and review insurance and contingency implications before and during travel.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Foreign travel advice](https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice)\n- [Scotland: Foreign travel advice](https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice)\n- [Wales: Foreign travel advice](https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice)\n- [Northern Ireland: Foreign travel advice](https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Prepare for international travel**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Prepare for international travel", "source": "services/check-foreign-travel-advice.md", "title": "Check foreign travel advice within Prepare for international travel" }, "process": { "id": "prepare-for-international-travel", "route": "enclosing-process/prepare-for-international-travel", "title": "Prepare for international travel" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "buy-travel-insurance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/buy-travel-insurance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Buy travel insurance" }, { "id": "check-entry-requirements", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-entry-requirements", 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"Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Choose home education\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter and attend school** in the **School years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNavigate the notification, education and local-authority contact boundaries when educating a child at home.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Educating your child at home](https://www.gov.uk/home-education)\n- [Scotland: School education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter and attend school**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter and attend school", "source": "services/choose-home-education.md", "title": "Choose home education within Enter and attend school" }, "process": { "id": "enter-and-attend-school", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-and-attend-school", "title": "Enter and attend school" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "appeal-school-admission", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/appeal-school-admission", "sequenced": false, "title": "Appeal a school admission decision" }, { "id": "apply-for-free-school-meals", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-free-school-meals", "sequenced": false, "title": 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considering or using home education." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_home_education_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "choose-home-education-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess education suitability or establish devolved rules." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a240d4556412f077ed077f5b", "resource_id": "resource:choose-home-education:choose-home-education-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/choose-home-education-choose-home-education-primary", "summary": "Introduces the England elective home-education route and local-authority boundary.", "title": "Educating your child at home", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/home-education" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/093dc724e8ddcec91da7069d", "resource_id": "resource:choose-home-education:school-years-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/choose-home-education-school-years-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish school education services and support.", "title": "School education in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": 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"source_ids": [ "claim-attendance-allowance-primary", "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "claim-attendance-allowance", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Claim Attendance Allowance\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Secure later-life income and mobility** in the **Later life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the current claim form and evidence route, describe the care or supervision needs and follow decision, revision or appeal steps.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Attendance Allowance](https://www.gov.uk/attendance-allowance)\n- [Scotland: Attendance Allowance](https://www.gov.uk/attendance-allowance)\n- [Wales: Attendance Allowance](https://www.gov.uk/attendance-allowance)\n- [Northern Ireland: Pensions and retirement planning](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/pensions-and-retirement-planning)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Secure later-life income and mobility**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Secure later-life income and mobility", "source": "services/claim-attendance-allowance.md", "title": "Claim Attendance Allowance within Secure later-life income and mobility" }, "process": { "id": "secure-later-life-income-and-mobility", "route": "enclosing-process/secure-later-life-income-and-mobility", "title": "Secure later-life income and mobility" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-pension-credit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-pension-credit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Pension Credit" }, { "id": "claim-state-pension", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-state-pension", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim State Pension" }, { "id": "get-state-pension-forecast", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-state-pension-forecast", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a State Pension forecast" }, { "id": "manage-workplace-pension-in-retirement", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/manage-workplace-pension-in-retirement", "sequenced": false, "title": "Manage a workplace pension in retirement" }, { "id": "use-older-person-concessionary-travel", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-older-person-concessionary-travel", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use older-person concessionary travel" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7a7466cef3347c1c665535d7", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/598591cd9b65aaf93334983f" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/claim-attendance-allowance", "situations": [ "A person over State Pension age has a disability or health condition that creates care or supervision needs." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_attendance_allowance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "claim-attendance-allowance-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not cover the Northern Ireland claim route, assess care needs or calculate entitlement." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Work and Pensions", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/08fc702e2e25beac8bf2cf1c", "resource_id": "resource:claim-attendance-allowance:claim-attendance-allowance-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-attendance-allowance-claim-attendance-allowance-primary", "summary": "Explains Great Britain conditions, claim, decision and challenge routes.", "title": "Attendance Allowance", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/attendance-allowance" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_retirement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide pension entitlement, care, health or legal-planning needs." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/555662c1b582ed358a605357", "resource_id": "resource:claim-attendance-allowance:later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-attendance-allowance-later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland pension and retirement-planning information.", "title": "Pensions and retirement planning", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/pensions-and-retirement-planning" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Claim Attendance Allowance", "user_needs": [ "Reach the official benefit decision without the bundle assessing disability or entitlement." ] }, { "aliases": [ "bereavement support payment", "help after partner dies", "funeral benefit support" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-bereavement-support-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-bereavement-support-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-bereavement-support-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-bereavement-support-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-bereavement-support-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-bereavement-support-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Identify the applicable bereavement benefit or local support route, make the claim with required relationship and contribution information and use challenge steps where needed.", "domain": { "id": "death-and-bereavement", "route": "life-course-domain/death-and-bereavement", "title": "Death and bereavement" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A bereaved spouse", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Identify the applicable bereavement benefit or local support route, make the claim with required relationship and contribution information and use challenge steps where needed.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e45746e7d9b3724ab2b8b2f8", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cbe1646ad9536b8390e20446" }, "route": "service-episode/claim-bereavement-support-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by 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"service-step/claim-bereavement-support-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "claim-bereavement-support-primary", "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to claim bereavement support and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Identify the applicable bereavement benefit or local support route, make the claim with required relationship and contribution information and use challenge steps where needed." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/68c08ca314e436797bc0d25d", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/32c93636cf2830acbdd78738", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/70c831fb48c73d2ea580e7c0", "resource_route": "resource/claim-bereavement-support-claim-bereavement-support-primary", "source_id": "claim-bereavement-support-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/eda9b8af3702ac940b425acd", "resource_route": "resource/claim-bereavement-support-death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/claim-bereavement-support-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "claim-bereavement-support-primary", "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/52482c25bf6a4b7b6c85f051", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8ad5dc61a7b6e8d435f3e3d9" }, "route": "service-episode/claim-bereavement-support-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6b120b61739633db07b465be", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dbf7c7aa12fe4f90a43c929d", "resource_route": "resource/claim-bereavement-support-claim-bereavement-support-primary", "source_id": "claim-bereavement-support-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/61092387bf8e748d33dd65fd", "resource_route": "resource/claim-bereavement-support-death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/claim-bereavement-support-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "claim-bereavement-support-primary", "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "claim-bereavement-support", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Claim bereavement support\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Certify, register, notify and arrange after death** in the **Death and bereavement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the applicable bereavement benefit or local support route, make the claim with required relationship and contribution information and use challenge steps where needed.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Bereavement Support Payment](https://www.gov.uk/bereavement-support-payment)\n- [Scotland: Bereavement Support Payment](https://www.gov.uk/bereavement-support-payment)\n- [Wales: Bereavement Support Payment](https://www.gov.uk/bereavement-support-payment)\n- [Northern Ireland: What to do when someone dies](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/births-deaths-baby-loss-marriages-and-civil-partnerships/death-and)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Certify, register, notify and arrange after death**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Certify, register, notify and arrange after death", "source": "services/claim-bereavement-support.md", "title": "Claim bereavement support within Certify, register, notify and arrange after death" }, "process": { "id": "certify-register-notify-and-arrange-after-death", "route": "enclosing-process/certify-register-notify-and-arrange-after-death", "title": "Certify, register, notify and arrange after death" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-burial-or-cremation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-burial-or-cremation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange burial or cremation" }, { "id": "arrange-funeral", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-funeral", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange a funeral" }, { "id": "arrange-repatriation-after-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-repatriation-after-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange repatriation after death" }, { "id": "notify-organisations-after-a-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/notify-organisations-after-a-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Notify organisations after a death" }, { "id": "obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a medical certificate of cause of death" }, { "id": "refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal", "sequenced": false, "title": "Refer a death to a coroner or procurator fiscal" }, { "id": "register-a-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-a-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a death" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fc90c625ccddf4851ed4510c", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b1056bf97e42bc6e7c382838" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/claim-bereavement-support", "situations": [ "A bereaved spouse, civil partner or family needs financial or practical support after a death." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_bereavement_support_payment", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "claim-bereavement-support-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not cover Northern Ireland, calculate entitlement or decide relationship, contribution or appeal questions." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Work and Pensions", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0ea3f79e41ddd309d059b196", "resource_id": "resource:claim-bereavement-support:claim-bereavement-support-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-bereavement-support-claim-bereavement-support-primary", "summary": "Explains Great Britain conditions, claim timing, payments and interaction handoffs for Bereavement Support Payment.", "title": "Bereavement Support Payment", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/bereavement-support-payment" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_after_death_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide cause, investigation, informant status, succession, tax or entitlement." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/35249bd415592252cb715f07", "resource_id": "resource:claim-bereavement-support:death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-bereavement-support-death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes bereaved people to current Northern Ireland registration, funeral, notification, benefit and estate information.", "title": "What to do when someone dies", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/births-deaths-baby-loss-marriages-and-civil-partnerships/death-and" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Claim bereavement support", "user_needs": [ "Find current support without the bundle deciding relationship, contribution or entitlement." ] }, { "aliases": [ "child benefit claim", "register child for child benefit" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-child-benefit-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-child-benefit-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-child-benefit-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-child-benefit-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-child-benefit-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-child-benefit-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-child-benefit-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-child-benefit-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Use the current Child Benefit route to make, manage or challenge a claim after a child joins the household.", "domain": { "id": "birth-and-newborn", "route": "life-course-domain/birth-and-newborn", "title": "Birth and the newborn period" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person responsible for a child needs to check and use the Child Benefit service.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Use the current Child Benefit route to make, manage or challenge a claim after a child joins the household.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f09728644a59cb78310f6e41", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/69a82a40e9a8aa88c26fe17e" }, "route": "service-episode/claim-child-benefit-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ad5a43b2fe8ba5ce1a93a32a", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e1eeb1919d2f4f30e43a1bff", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/27a3b82936a3f91d57abd8fe", "resource_route": "resource/claim-child-benefit-claim-child-benefit-primary", "source_id": "claim-child-benefit-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/claim-child-benefit-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "claim-child-benefit-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to claim child benefit and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the current Child Benefit route to make, manage or challenge a claim after a child joins the household." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b9d44c75975e71e199be8143", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3f431e62fdf1270b516e4207", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d0488942e0ad3cfb1c0ebc2f", "resource_route": "resource/claim-child-benefit-claim-child-benefit-primary", "source_id": "claim-child-benefit-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/claim-child-benefit-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "claim-child-benefit-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e46bfdb269008553d57e45e5", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/327c45daf77cf3c9e282f691" }, "route": "service-episode/claim-child-benefit-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/169056a8b89f74be50a134d4", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9b1aa8777ef7d22adeb04432", "resource_route": "resource/claim-child-benefit-claim-child-benefit-primary", "source_id": "claim-child-benefit-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/claim-child-benefit-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "claim-child-benefit-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "claim-child-benefit", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Claim Child Benefit\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish a child's legal identity** in the **Birth and the newborn period** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the current Child Benefit route to make, manage or challenge a claim after a child joins the household.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Child Benefit](https://www.gov.uk/child-benefit)\n- [Scotland: Child Benefit](https://www.gov.uk/child-benefit)\n- [Wales: Child Benefit](https://www.gov.uk/child-benefit)\n- [Northern Ireland: Child Benefit](https://www.gov.uk/child-benefit)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish a child's legal identity**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish a child's legal identity", "source": "services/claim-child-benefit.md", "title": "Claim Child Benefit within Establish a child's legal identity" }, "process": { "id": "establish-a-childs-legal-identity", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-a-childs-legal-identity", "title": "Establish a child's legal identity" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "check-child-nationality-status", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-child-nationality-status", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check a child's nationality status" }, { "id": "correct-a-birth-registration", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/correct-a-birth-registration", "sequenced": false, "title": "Correct a birth registration" }, { "id": "establish-parental-responsibility", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/establish-parental-responsibility", "sequenced": false, "title": "Establish parental responsibility" }, { "id": "obtain-birth-certificates", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-birth-certificates", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain birth certificates" }, { "id": "obtain-child-passport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-child-passport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a child passport" }, { "id": "register-a-birth", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-a-birth", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a birth" }, { "id": "register-a-stillbirth", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-a-stillbirth", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a stillbirth" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/846978fcc7fb2afaa1501305", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/49756aa4e48aa521f12b37ea" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/claim-child-benefit", "situations": [ "A person responsible for a child needs to check and use the Child Benefit service." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_child_benefit_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "claim-child-benefit-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not calculate entitlement, tax effects, payment, evidence sufficiency or a decision outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "HM Revenue and Customs", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0a122301758e3aaccdeba8e2", "resource_id": "resource:claim-child-benefit:claim-child-benefit-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-child-benefit-claim-child-benefit-primary", "summary": "Provides the current Child Benefit overview and handoffs to claim, report change and challenge routes.", "title": "Child Benefit", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/child-benefit" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Claim Child Benefit", "user_needs": [ "Find the claim, evidence, payment and challenge route without calculating entitlement locally." ] }, { "aliases": [ "disability payment application", "benefits for disabled people" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-disability-benefit-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-disability-benefit-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-disability-benefit-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-disability-benefit-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-disability-benefit-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-disability-benefit-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-disability-benefit-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-disability-benefit-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Select the correct national and age-specific benefit route and follow assessment, decision and challenge handoffs.", "domain": { "id": "money-tax-and-benefits", "route": "life-course-domain/money-tax-and-benefits", "title": "Money, tax and benefits" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A disabled person or person with a health condition needs to check financial support.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Select the correct national and age-specific benefit route and follow assessment, decision and challenge handoffs.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9f14578414069da196c74f6e", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/80850920410d3753f78344b1" }, "route": "service-episode/claim-disability-benefit-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/35754c3e5094c1eae7944572", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/751bdba7e13b23cce7f928ba", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e78726953fc4cacf481fce78", "resource_route": "resource/claim-disability-benefit-claim-disability-benefit-primary", "source_id": "claim-disability-benefit-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/claim-disability-benefit-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "claim-disability-benefit-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to claim a disability benefit and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Select the correct national and age-specific benefit route and follow assessment, decision and challenge handoffs." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6e9634c65e2d51159e6db3c2", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f9560cc0550787a55f22fbf6", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b6fb1dc18524d11e5256caa4", "resource_route": "resource/claim-disability-benefit-claim-disability-benefit-primary", "source_id": "claim-disability-benefit-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/claim-disability-benefit-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "claim-disability-benefit-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2b2da48f3be8b15c1a9d1f09", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8727c69000f4544382c6e51c" }, "route": "service-episode/claim-disability-benefit-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5186aae839548049750d2c03", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/42a35e6a2832536c9f0e0723", "resource_route": "resource/claim-disability-benefit-claim-disability-benefit-primary", "source_id": "claim-disability-benefit-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/claim-disability-benefit-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "claim-disability-benefit-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "claim-disability-benefit", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Claim a disability benefit\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Claim support and resolve debt** in the **Money, tax and benefits** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSelect the correct national and age-specific benefit route and follow assessment, decision and challenge handoffs.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Financial help if you are disabled](https://www.gov.uk/financial-help-disabled)\n- [Scotland: Financial help if you are disabled](https://www.gov.uk/financial-help-disabled)\n- [Wales: Financial help if you are disabled](https://www.gov.uk/financial-help-disabled)\n- [Northern Ireland: Financial help if you are disabled](https://www.gov.uk/financial-help-disabled)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Claim support and resolve debt**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Claim support and resolve debt", "source": "services/claim-disability-benefit.md", "title": "Claim a disability benefit within Claim support and resolve debt" }, "process": { "id": "claim-support-and-resolve-debt", "route": "enclosing-process/claim-support-and-resolve-debt", "title": "Claim support and resolve debt" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-universal-credit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-universal-credit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Universal Credit" }, { "id": "enter-personal-insolvency", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/enter-personal-insolvency", "sequenced": false, "title": "Enter personal insolvency" }, { "id": "get-debt-advice-and-relief", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-debt-advice-and-relief", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get debt advice and relief" }, { "id": "report-benefit-change-of-circumstances", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-benefit-change-of-circumstances", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a benefit change of circumstances" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d2faaabec590cd3423b0d342", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1a005c08be859a469b12b2ea" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/claim-disability-benefit", "situations": [ "A disabled person or person with a health condition needs to check financial support." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "disability_benefit_discovery_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "claim-disability-benefit-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, select a national benefit or determine entitlement." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Work and Pensions", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/29ceeefcc280556c9a6498fc", "resource_id": "resource:claim-disability-benefit:claim-disability-benefit-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-disability-benefit-claim-disability-benefit-primary", "summary": "Routes people to current disability-related benefit and support services.", "title": "Financial help if you are disabled", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/financial-help-disabled" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Claim a disability benefit", "user_needs": [ "Distinguish benefit systems and retain evidence and decision outputs without a local health or entitlement assessment." ] }, { "aliases": [ "disability benefit", "PIP DLA attendance allowance", "financial help disabled" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-disability-living-support-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-disability-living-support-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "disability-care-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "disability-care-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "disability-care-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Identify the age, circumstance and jurisdiction-specific benefit, use its current claim route and preserve review and appeal information.", "domain": { "id": "disability-care-and-support", "route": "life-course-domain/disability-care-and-support", "title": "Disability, care and support" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A disabled person or carer needs information about non-means-tested or related living-cost support.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Identify the age, circumstance and jurisdiction-specific benefit, use its current claim route and preserve review and appeal information.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/514ebf4de1161726a9905d78", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c2133b53a4a622820dd312bc" }, "route": "service-episode/claim-disability-living-support-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8378f0730608f3569e695a3c", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/04d7817af437ed5d0234b5c6", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d0cc85e0c96a62d262552034", "resource_route": "resource/claim-disability-living-support-claim-disability-living-support-primary", "source_id": "claim-disability-living-support-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d7315de463e81eb3c17bf229", "resource_route": "resource/claim-disability-living-support-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/402346f5659416228792aff9", "resource_route": "resource/claim-disability-living-support-disability-care-wales-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3cbea649ce9fc752804328bd", "resource_route": "resource/claim-disability-living-support-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/claim-disability-living-support-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "claim-disability-living-support-primary", "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "disability-care-wales-handoff", "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to claim disability living support and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Identify the age, circumstance and jurisdiction-specific benefit, use its current claim route and preserve review and appeal information." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/55f4474d21adfed1236b1afa", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/007360764259967c6bf3d88b", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f596430788f9cf0eb1402266", "resource_route": "resource/claim-disability-living-support-claim-disability-living-support-primary", "source_id": "claim-disability-living-support-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0ae4382e7dff718b687cb0ad", "resource_route": "resource/claim-disability-living-support-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5cb8bec48e263456a8d3c823", "resource_route": "resource/claim-disability-living-support-disability-care-wales-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/05fde567773f42d1a3995d62", "resource_route": "resource/claim-disability-living-support-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/claim-disability-living-support-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "claim-disability-living-support-primary", "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "disability-care-wales-handoff", "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c2dea0f8904973491503fd81", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6892b758d5e56592138a61bf" }, "route": "service-episode/claim-disability-living-support-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2c24ddbef25d3e670f4a7820", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1dde184fffc58bc7632a53a1", "resource_route": "resource/claim-disability-living-support-claim-disability-living-support-primary", "source_id": "claim-disability-living-support-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ecc1cbb5a1df6cdf0e5e889a", "resource_route": "resource/claim-disability-living-support-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b4076ab5a82db3b207d916e8", "resource_route": "resource/claim-disability-living-support-disability-care-wales-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4e5396c195fb8d74756532c5", "resource_route": "resource/claim-disability-living-support-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/claim-disability-living-support-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "claim-disability-living-support-primary", "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "disability-care-wales-handoff", "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "claim-disability-living-support", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Claim disability living support\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Assess and deliver disability and care support** in the **Disability, care and support** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the age, circumstance and jurisdiction-specific benefit, use its current claim route and preserve review and appeal information.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Financial help if you are disabled](https://www.gov.uk/financial-help-disabled)\n- [Scotland: Health and social care in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/health-social-care)\n- [Wales: Social care in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/social-care)\n- [Northern Ireland: Caring for someone in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/caring-someone)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Assess and deliver disability and care support**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Assess and deliver disability and care support", "source": "services/claim-disability-living-support.md", "title": "Claim disability living support within Assess and deliver disability and care support" }, "process": { "id": "assess-and-deliver-disability-and-care-support", "route": "enclosing-process/assess-and-deliver-disability-and-care-support", "title": "Assess and deliver disability and care support" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-carers-assessment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-carers-assessment", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a carer's assessment" }, { "id": "get-disability-home-adaptation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-disability-home-adaptation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a disability home adaptation" }, { "id": "get-residential-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-residential-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get residential care" }, { "id": "get-social-care-needs-assessment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-social-care-needs-assessment", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a social-care needs assessment" }, { "id": "receive-direct-payments", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-direct-payments", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive direct payments" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d5dc564d852b9d18f29996c8", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4fe3a0c204501532b2a49847" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/claim-disability-living-support", "situations": [ "A disabled person or carer needs information about non-means-tested or related living-cost support." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_disability_financial_support_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "claim-disability-living-support-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not select a benefit, calculate eligibility, assess disability or establish Northern Ireland routes." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Work and Pensions", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/780d90df62dcbe703188fb56", "resource_id": "resource:claim-disability-living-support:claim-disability-living-support-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-disability-living-support-claim-disability-living-support-primary", "summary": "Routes Great Britain users to disability benefits, vehicles, equipment, housing and work support.", "title": "Financial help if you are disabled", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/financial-help-disabled" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine eligibility, local provision, capacity, safeguarding action or redress." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/64b20ab87bdf19af60d55898", "resource_id": "resource:claim-disability-living-support:disability-care-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-disability-living-support-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish disability, care, capacity, support and benefit services.", "title": "Health and social care in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/health-social-care" }, { "authority_role": "wales_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify an individual local authority route or decide eligibility or safeguarding action." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8b188249d4dbf03b226344ce", "resource_id": "resource:claim-disability-living-support:disability-care-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-disability-living-support-disability-care-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh social-care policy and applicable local service information.", "title": "Social care in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/social-care" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify every trust service or decide eligibility, capacity or safeguarding action." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1cdd11a62ca39310cd9010a7", "resource_id": "resource:claim-disability-living-support:disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-disability-living-support-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland carer, disability, benefit and care information.", "title": "Caring for someone in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/caring-someone" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Claim disability living support", "user_needs": [ "Find the correct benefit without a local eligibility calculation or medical assessment." ] }, { "aliases": [ "maternity allowance claim", "maternity pay when self-employed" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-maternity-allowance-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-maternity-allowance-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-maternity-allowance-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-maternity-allowance-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-maternity-allowance-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-maternity-allowance-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-maternity-allowance-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-maternity-allowance-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Check and use the current Maternity Allowance route when statutory maternity pay may not apply.", "domain": { "id": "before-birth-and-starting-family", "route": "life-course-domain/before-birth-and-starting-family", "title": "Before birth and starting a family" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A pregnant person or new parent needs to check whether Maternity Allowance is the relevant income-support route.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Check and use the current Maternity Allowance route when statutory maternity pay may not apply.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c0b084f0746566c32ca319f1", "family_episode": 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"not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "claim-maternity-allowance", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Claim Maternity Allowance\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support** in the **Before birth and starting a family** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck and use the current Maternity Allowance route when statutory maternity pay may not apply.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Maternity Allowance](https://www.gov.uk/maternity-allowance)\n- [Scotland: Maternity Allowance](https://www.gov.uk/maternity-allowance)\n- [Wales: Maternity Allowance](https://www.gov.uk/maternity-allowance)\n- [Northern Ireland: Maternity Allowance](https://www.gov.uk/maternity-allowance)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support", "source": "services/claim-maternity-allowance.md", "title": "Claim Maternity Allowance within Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support" }, "process": { "id": "pregnancy-maternity-and-workplace-support", "route": "enclosing-process/pregnancy-maternity-and-workplace-support", "title": "Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-fertility-and-reproductive-health", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access fertility and reproductive health" }, { "id": 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"shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-paternity-or-partner-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take paternity or partner leave" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6e2127f77d86bbb5a0fafbd6", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/59b291750d4554d1636d4cb0" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/claim-maternity-allowance", "situations": [ "A pregnant person or new parent needs to check whether Maternity Allowance is the relevant income-support route." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "maternity_allowance_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "claim-maternity-allowance-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not calculate entitlement, payment amount, evidence 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"state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/61f9003136e2dc121ab3bfcc", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4ed05376f14b1aaf1d7596d2", "resource_route": "resource/claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance-claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance-primary", "source_id": "claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e2a4a21c94c5a4bb40d43528", "resource_route": "resource/claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance-finding-work-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2629e9d92ae52723d6997256", "resource_route": "resource/claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance-finding-work-wales-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1a529f4e8ff492cc94aeef21", "resource_route": "resource/claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance-finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance-primary", "finding-work-scotland-handoff", "finding-work-wales-handoff", "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Claim New Style Jobseeker's Allowance\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Respond to unemployment and redundancy** in the **Finding work and unemployment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck and use the contribution-based unemployment support route and its decision or challenge handoff.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: New Style Jobseeker's Allowance](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/new-style-jobseekers-allowance)\n- [Scotland: Finding a job in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job)\n- [Wales: Employment support in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/employment-support)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Respond to unemployment and redundancy**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Respond to unemployment and redundancy", "source": "services/claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance.md", "title": "Claim New Style Jobseeker's Allowance within Respond to unemployment and redundancy" }, "process": { "id": "respond-to-unemployment-and-redundancy", "route": "enclosing-process/respond-to-unemployment-and-redundancy", "title": "Respond to unemployment and redundancy" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-employment-retraining", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-employment-retraining", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access employment retraining" }, { "id": "claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Universal Credit while unemployed" }, { "id": "get-redundancy-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-redundancy-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get redundancy support" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4a500a584c4000baf83e51d7", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1162b54b6e0730d49d6d5efa" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance", "situations": [ "A person who is unemployed or working limited hours wants to check New Style JSA." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "new_style_jobseekers_allowance_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not calculate contribution conditions or decide entitlement." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Work and Pensions", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f8e5916ae22eb41df0c9ec81", "resource_id": "resource:claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance:claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance-claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance-primary", "summary": "Explains the Great Britain New Style JSA claim and decision route.", "title": "New Style Jobseeker's Allowance", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/guidance/new-style-jobseekers-allowance" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6e63a9fe50fb40c0388f8337", "resource_id": "resource:claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance:finding-work-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance-finding-work-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish job-search and employment-support services.", "title": "Finding a job in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job" }, { "authority_role": "wales_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3c3ee9c8f2a1e1d9d9b2584c", "resource_id": "resource:claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance:finding-work-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance-finding-work-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh employability and skills support.", "title": "Employment support in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/employment-support" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/eb3733a4152e24329bf1afda", "resource_id": "resource:claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance:finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance-finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland employment services and rights.", "title": "Employment in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Claim New Style Jobseeker's Allowance", "user_needs": [ "Find current contribution, work-search, evidence and review requirements." ] }, { "aliases": [ "top up retirement income", "guarantee credit", "pensioner income benefit" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-pension-credit-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-pension-credit-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-pension-credit-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-pension-credit-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-pension-credit-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-pension-credit-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Check the current qualifying framework and use the claim route with income, savings, housing and partner information requested by the authority.", "domain": { "id": "later-life", "route": "life-course-domain/later-life", "title": "Later life" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person over the qualifying age has a low retirement income and wants to explore Pension Credit.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Check the current qualifying framework and use the claim route with income, savings, housing and partner information requested by the authority.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0e8a7f7b85f0b540d504f916", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/240000589d73b82a23ca573d" }, "route": "service-episode/claim-pension-credit-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a7d6f1afaeeba6766157b031", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e9c9a2264bf920a968964e3f", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bd7c6c06cbb4874341ff3b9b", "resource_route": "resource/claim-pension-credit-claim-pension-credit-primary", "source_id": "claim-pension-credit-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1732a9fdcecb74f5fcfe25f1", "resource_route": "resource/claim-pension-credit-later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/claim-pension-credit-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "claim-pension-credit-primary", "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to claim pension credit and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Check the current qualifying framework and use the claim route with income, savings, housing and partner information requested by the authority." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9dc5b5617a36bd32a06fcb16", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2bd550506244173e75968f0d", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5e808dd08182c8c2c415586b", "resource_route": "resource/claim-pension-credit-claim-pension-credit-primary", "source_id": "claim-pension-credit-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/88d5c691f2695c5cdd59045f", "resource_route": "resource/claim-pension-credit-later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/claim-pension-credit-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "claim-pension-credit-primary", "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fb834b854011c9341656a1fb", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4399653a5408fa417be4c714" }, "route": "service-episode/claim-pension-credit-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7fd05c828da05912692fa77f", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/216341742e6339ab96739ebe", "resource_route": "resource/claim-pension-credit-claim-pension-credit-primary", "source_id": "claim-pension-credit-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6fc2906d613a890ada955648", "resource_route": "resource/claim-pension-credit-later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/claim-pension-credit-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "claim-pension-credit-primary", "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "claim-pension-credit", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Claim Pension Credit\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Secure later-life income and mobility** in the **Later life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck the current qualifying framework and use the claim route with income, savings, housing and partner information requested by the authority.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Pension Credit](https://www.gov.uk/pension-credit)\n- [Scotland: Pension Credit](https://www.gov.uk/pension-credit)\n- [Wales: Pension Credit](https://www.gov.uk/pension-credit)\n- [Northern Ireland: Pensions and retirement planning](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/pensions-and-retirement-planning)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Secure later-life income and mobility**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Secure later-life income and mobility", "source": "services/claim-pension-credit.md", "title": "Claim Pension Credit within Secure later-life income and mobility" }, "process": { "id": "secure-later-life-income-and-mobility", "route": "enclosing-process/secure-later-life-income-and-mobility", "title": "Secure later-life income and mobility" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-attendance-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-attendance-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Attendance Allowance" }, { "id": "claim-state-pension", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-state-pension", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim State Pension" }, { "id": "get-state-pension-forecast", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-state-pension-forecast", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a State Pension forecast" }, { "id": "manage-workplace-pension-in-retirement", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/manage-workplace-pension-in-retirement", "sequenced": false, "title": "Manage a workplace pension in retirement" }, { "id": "use-older-person-concessionary-travel", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-older-person-concessionary-travel", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use older-person concessionary travel" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e1d9edb074a2dfdc31d2759f", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/38cd52168f54f7a235441769" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/claim-pension-credit", "situations": [ "A person over the qualifying age has a low retirement income and wants to explore Pension Credit." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_pension_credit", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "claim-pension-credit-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not cover the Northern Ireland claim route, calculate entitlement or decide a challenge." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Work and Pensions", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a8cbcfb20c1a5b5fe7c004af", "resource_id": "resource:claim-pension-credit:claim-pension-credit-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-pension-credit-claim-pension-credit-primary", "summary": "Routes Great Britain claimants to current Pension Credit conditions, calculation and claim services.", "title": "Pension Credit", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/pension-credit" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_retirement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide pension entitlement, care, health or legal-planning needs." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1e39f152d6c517fd86818d92", "resource_id": "resource:claim-pension-credit:later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-pension-credit-later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland pension and retirement-planning information.", "title": "Pensions and retirement planning", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/pensions-and-retirement-planning" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Claim Pension Credit", "user_needs": [ "Reach the official calculation and decision process without a local entitlement result." ] }, { "aliases": [ "start State Pension", "defer pension claim", "claim retirement pension" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-state-pension-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-state-pension-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": 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"resource_route": "resource/claim-state-pension-claim-state-pension-primary", "source_id": "claim-state-pension-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/claim-state-pension-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "claim-state-pension-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "claim-state-pension", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Claim State Pension\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Secure later-life income and mobility** in the **Later life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck invitation and claim timing, use the applicable online, telephone or postal route and retain the decision and payment information.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Get your State Pension](https://www.gov.uk/get-state-pension)\n- [Scotland: Get your State Pension](https://www.gov.uk/get-state-pension)\n- [Wales: Get your State Pension](https://www.gov.uk/get-state-pension)\n- [Northern Ireland: Get your State Pension](https://www.gov.uk/get-state-pension)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Secure later-life income and mobility**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Secure later-life income and mobility", "source": "services/claim-state-pension.md", "title": "Claim State Pension within Secure later-life income and mobility" }, "process": { "id": "secure-later-life-income-and-mobility", "route": "enclosing-process/secure-later-life-income-and-mobility", "title": "Secure later-life income and mobility" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-attendance-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-attendance-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Attendance Allowance" }, { "id": "claim-pension-credit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-pension-credit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Pension Credit" }, { "id": "get-state-pension-forecast", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-state-pension-forecast", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a State Pension forecast" }, { "id": "manage-workplace-pension-in-retirement", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/manage-workplace-pension-in-retirement", "sequenced": false, "title": "Manage a workplace pension in retirement" }, { "id": "use-older-person-concessionary-travel", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-older-person-concessionary-travel", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use older-person concessionary travel" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4c129e127c566df95dbedd58", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/725e030d31a97947daecfe7d" }, "review": { 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"resource/claim-state-pension-claim-state-pension-primary", "summary": "Explains current UK State Pension claim, deferral and payment routes.", "title": "Get your State Pension", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/get-state-pension" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Claim State Pension", "user_needs": [ "Use the current claim route without the bundle calculating age, amount, deferral or tax." ] }, { "aliases": [ "student council tax exemption", "council tax discount for students" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-student-council-tax-disregard-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-student-council-tax-disregard-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": 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"normalized", "description": "Give the billing authority the student evidence needed to apply the current disregard or discount decision.", "domain": { "id": "further-education-university-research", "route": "life-course-domain/further-education-university-research", "title": "Further education, university and research" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A household includes a student and needs the council-tax bill assessed correctly.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Give the billing authority the student evidence needed to apply the current disregard or discount decision.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/284d9048e3c38942f39c77e5", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d4a5d3c6d7a2e5bd1294e8b1" }, "route": "service-episode/claim-student-council-tax-disregard-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/563d32afde13b8bbf5fc13dc", "resource_route": "resource/claim-student-council-tax-disregard-claim-student-council-tax-disregard-primary", "source_id": "claim-student-council-tax-disregard-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/47c7245ed8f11d330e2f2fea", "resource_route": "resource/claim-student-council-tax-disregard-post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0d917498a19288fdef0c03f8", "resource_route": "resource/claim-student-council-tax-disregard-post-school-study-wales-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c4ea5ccb04c55647b8b20be8", "resource_route": "resource/claim-student-council-tax-disregard-post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/claim-student-council-tax-disregard-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "claim-student-council-tax-disregard-primary", "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "claim-student-council-tax-disregard", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Claim a student council tax disregard\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter and fund post-school study** in the **Further education, university and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nGive the billing authority the student evidence needed to apply the current disregard or discount decision.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Council Tax discounts for full-time students](https://www.gov.uk/council-tax/discounts-for-full-time-students)\n- [Scotland: Further and higher education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Further and higher education in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Higher education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education/higher-education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter and fund post-school study**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter and fund post-school study", "source": "services/claim-student-council-tax-disregard.md", "title": "Claim a student council tax disregard within Enter and fund post-school study" }, "process": { "id": "enter-and-fund-post-school-study", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-and-fund-post-school-study", "title": "Enter and fund post-school study" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-adult-skills-training", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-adult-skills-training", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access adult skills training" }, { "id": "apply-for-further-education-course", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-further-education-course", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for a further education course" }, { "id": "apply-to-university", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-to-university", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply to university" }, { "id": "arrange-student-accommodation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-student-accommodation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange student accommodation" }, { "id": "get-disabled-students-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-disabled-students-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Disabled Students' Allowance" }, { "id": "get-student-finance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-student-finance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get student finance" }, { "id": "register-with-health-services-as-student", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-with-health-services-as-student", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register with health services as a student" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3f617af637f315b79a8ac579", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dfce05302d2b1b16d3e2173d" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/claim-student-council-tax-disregard", "situations": [ "A household includes a student and needs the council-tax bill assessed correctly." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_student_council_tax_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "claim-student-council-tax-disregard-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine student status, household liability or bill amount." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4f273a60f207bbd0ca71733e", "resource_id": "resource:claim-student-council-tax-disregard:claim-student-council-tax-disregard-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-student-council-tax-disregard-claim-student-council-tax-disregard-primary", "summary": "Explains the England and Wales student-disregard boundary and local billing-authority handoff.", "title": "Council Tax discounts for full-time students", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/council-tax/discounts-for-full-time-students" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_post_school_study_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a course, funding, admission or research decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c95412527014c496c9efa51c", "resource_id": "resource:claim-student-council-tax-disregard:post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-student-council-tax-disregard-post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish college, university and student-support services.", "title": "Further and higher education in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_post_school_study_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a course, funding, admission or research decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a9ec72c5301a843f7448bb72", "resource_id": "resource:claim-student-council-tax-disregard:post-school-study-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-student-council-tax-disregard-post-school-study-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh further- and higher-education services and policy.", "title": "Further and higher education in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/education-skills" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_post_school_study_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a course, funding, admission or research decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f2aa05f055f3c84541e67d5d", "resource_id": "resource:claim-student-council-tax-disregard:post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-student-council-tax-disregard-post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland higher-education and student-support services.", "title": "Higher education in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education/higher-education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Claim a student council tax disregard", "user_needs": [ "Find the billing authority, evidence and challenge route without calculating the bill locally." ] }, 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"claim-tax-refund-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "claim-tax-refund-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "claim-tax-refund-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Use the correct HMRC refund route for the tax type and retain calculation, payment or refusal outputs.", "domain": { "id": "money-tax-and-benefits", "route": "life-course-domain/money-tax-and-benefits", "title": "Money, tax and benefits" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person believes too much tax has been paid.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Use the correct HMRC refund route for the tax type and retain calculation, payment or refusal outputs.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2eb89be6114f9460dd9c708d", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7d49f1df147ba762e5d23376" }, "route": "service-episode/claim-tax-refund-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0549513baae3409a26c27254", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d25b33a3e6c95294d88ce4d2", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f65860503b1e68beaa1ebbb2", "resource_route": "resource/claim-tax-refund-claim-tax-refund-primary", "source_id": "claim-tax-refund-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/claim-tax-refund-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules 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information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ff1efb50c9233d05e44f7a97", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e23c1beca26355edbf0bcfc2", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2cc561d33797668883bc1b4b", "resource_route": "resource/claim-tax-refund-claim-tax-refund-primary", "source_id": "claim-tax-refund-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/claim-tax-refund-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "claim-tax-refund-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8a6242d65a678d98a535ba35", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a7819165a704f3d4810f71c9" }, "route": "service-episode/claim-tax-refund-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4da838a6c42be53950d79142", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/014875189d9bd74890b9d865", "resource_route": "resource/claim-tax-refund-claim-tax-refund-primary", "source_id": "claim-tax-refund-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/claim-tax-refund-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "claim-tax-refund-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "claim-tax-refund", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Claim a tax refund\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Manage personal tax and contributions** in the **Money, tax and benefits** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the correct HMRC refund route for the tax type and retain calculation, payment or refusal outputs.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Claim a tax refund](https://www.gov.uk/claim-tax-refund)\n- [Scotland: Claim a tax refund](https://www.gov.uk/claim-tax-refund)\n- [Wales: Claim a tax refund](https://www.gov.uk/claim-tax-refund)\n- [Northern Ireland: Claim a tax refund](https://www.gov.uk/claim-tax-refund)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Manage personal tax and contributions**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Manage personal tax and contributions", "source": "services/claim-tax-refund.md", "title": "Claim a tax refund within Manage personal tax and contributions" }, "process": { "id": "manage-personal-tax-and-contributions", "route": "enclosing-process/manage-personal-tax-and-contributions", "title": "Manage personal tax and contributions" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "file-self-assessment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/file-self-assessment", "sequenced": false, "title": "File Self Assessment" }, { "id": "get-national-insurance-record", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": 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national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Claim Universal Credit\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Claim support and resolve debt** in the **Money, tax and benefits** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck the current claim boundary, submit the live claim and retain commitment, payment and review records.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Universal Credit](https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit)\n- [Scotland: Universal Credit](https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit)\n- [Wales: Universal Credit](https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit)\n- [Northern Ireland: Universal Credit](https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Claim support and resolve debt**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Claim support and resolve debt", "source": "services/claim-universal-credit.md", "title": "Claim Universal Credit within Claim support and resolve debt" }, "process": { "id": "claim-support-and-resolve-debt", "route": "enclosing-process/claim-support-and-resolve-debt", "title": "Claim support and resolve debt" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-disability-benefit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-disability-benefit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim a disability benefit" }, { "id": "enter-personal-insolvency", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/enter-personal-insolvency", 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"resource/claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed-finding-work-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e2cc2afd2f233a3a22057382", "resource_route": "resource/claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed-finding-work-wales-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6dfa184da5550a8aa14951d3", "resource_route": "resource/claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed-finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed-primary", "finding-work-scotland-handoff", "finding-work-wales-handoff", "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Claim Universal Credit while unemployed\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Respond to unemployment and redundancy** in the **Finding work and unemployment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the applicable claim route and retain claimant-commitment, payment and review outputs.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Universal Credit](https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit)\n- [Scotland: Finding a job in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job)\n- [Wales: Employment support in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/employment-support)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Respond to unemployment and redundancy**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Respond to unemployment and redundancy", "source": "services/claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed.md", "title": "Claim Universal Credit while unemployed within Respond to unemployment and redundancy" }, "process": { "id": "respond-to-unemployment-and-redundancy", "route": "enclosing-process/respond-to-unemployment-and-redundancy", "title": "Respond to unemployment and redundancy" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-employment-retraining", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-employment-retraining", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access employment retraining" }, { "id": "claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim New Style Jobseeker's Allowance" }, { "id": "get-redundancy-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-redundancy-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get redundancy support" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/65dae39b96a93eeeaa534ab4", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0cd112e6ce943aaa87f6d2c2" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed", "situations": [ "A person without work needs to check the current means-tested support route." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "universal_credit_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not calculate entitlement or decide work-related requirements or payment." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Work and Pensions", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/006f279bf48b197a54fe176e", "resource_id": "resource:claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed:claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed-claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed-primary", "summary": "Provides the current Universal Credit overview and claim handoff.", "title": "Universal Credit", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8f5d758fa54c490a2f6b5ef7", "resource_id": "resource:claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed:finding-work-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed-finding-work-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish job-search and employment-support services.", "title": "Finding a job in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job" }, { "authority_role": "wales_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9aa539096cdb304e85355652", "resource_id": "resource:claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed:finding-work-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed-finding-work-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh employability and skills support.", "title": "Employment support in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/employment-support" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/20e66de3f1d3c07a0235b08b", "resource_id": "resource:claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed:finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed-finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland employment services and rights.", "title": "Employment in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Claim Universal Credit while unemployed", "user_needs": [ "Reach the live claim and review service without calculating entitlement locally." ] }, { "aliases": [ "close limited company", "stop self employment", "business insolvency route" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "close-or-insolvent-business-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "close-or-insolvent-business-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "close-or-insolvent-business-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "close-or-insolvent-business-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "close-or-insolvent-business-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "close-or-insolvent-business-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "close-or-insolvent-business-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "close-or-insolvent-business-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Identify the entity, solvency and creditor position and use the exact cessation, strike-off, liquidation, administration or insolvency route.", "domain": { "id": "starting-and-running-organisation", "route": "life-course-domain/starting-and-running-organisation", "title": "Starting and running an organisation" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "An organisation is ceasing activity or may be unable to pay its debts.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Identify the entity, solvency and creditor position and use the exact cessation, strike-off, liquidation, administration or insolvency route.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/78ef65f05e2f887510292f6b", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/54a2ea29bfebb8043a126edc" }, "route": "service-episode/close-or-insolvent-business-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c90057bfa68297efc2b478fa", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ad3773c975c986b4f7f7be33", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6c3eedea3346283328185d22", "resource_route": "resource/close-or-insolvent-business-close-or-insolvent-business-primary", "source_id": "close-or-insolvent-business-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/close-or-insolvent-business-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "close-or-insolvent-business-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to close or make a business insolvent and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Identify the entity, solvency and creditor position and use the exact cessation, strike-off, liquidation, administration or insolvency route." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c90baa7872334361d0ca62fe", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5bc34e8be4a39a75e096fe77", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0e6f4141bd071836931c2ba5", "resource_route": "resource/close-or-insolvent-business-close-or-insolvent-business-primary", "source_id": "close-or-insolvent-business-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/close-or-insolvent-business-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "close-or-insolvent-business-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9ea445d3335e8a1351a33c43", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/96c4a4d2c542ce04e179b170" }, "route": "service-episode/close-or-insolvent-business-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ff8a5805949a00e498589a28", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6af9650e77adfeed8a6b95b8", "resource_route": "resource/close-or-insolvent-business-close-or-insolvent-business-primary", "source_id": "close-or-insolvent-business-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/close-or-insolvent-business-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "close-or-insolvent-business-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "close-or-insolvent-business", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Close or make a business insolvent\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Operate, regulate and close an organisation** in the **Starting and running an organisation** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the entity, solvency and creditor position and use the exact cessation, strike-off, liquidation, administration or insolvency route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Closing a limited company](https://www.gov.uk/closing-a-limited-company)\n- [Scotland: Closing a limited company](https://www.gov.uk/closing-a-limited-company)\n- [Wales: Closing a limited company](https://www.gov.uk/closing-a-limited-company)\n- [Northern Ireland: Closing a limited company](https://www.gov.uk/closing-a-limited-company)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Operate, regulate and close an organisation**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Operate, regulate and close an organisation", "source": "services/close-or-insolvent-business.md", "title": "Close or make a business insolvent within Operate, regulate and close an organisation" }, "process": { "id": "operate-regulate-and-close-an-organisation", "route": "enclosing-process/operate-regulate-and-close-an-organisation", "title": "Operate, regulate and close an organisation" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "bid-for-public-contract", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/bid-for-public-contract", "sequenced": false, "title": "Bid for a public contract" }, { "id": "meet-workplace-safety-duties", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/meet-workplace-safety-duties", "sequenced": false, "title": "Meet workplace safety duties" }, { "id": "obtain-business-licence", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-business-licence", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a business licence" }, { "id": "register-data-protection-fee", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-data-protection-fee", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a data-protection fee" }, { "id": "run-payroll", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/run-payroll", "sequenced": false, "title": "Run payroll" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7d8a07ca806c8ae20ad536f0", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/46e6affe8bee87235fcf9653" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": 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"limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Commercialise research\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Fund, publish and commercialise research** in the **Ideas, creativity and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nConfirm ownership, obligations and evidence, assess protection and routes to impact and use the institution, funder and regulated-adviser process.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Funding to develop and exploit knowledge assets](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/get-funding-to-develop-and-exploit-knowledge-assets)\n- [Scotland: Funding to develop and exploit knowledge assets](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/get-funding-to-develop-and-exploit-knowledge-assets)\n- [Wales: Funding to develop and exploit knowledge assets](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/get-funding-to-develop-and-exploit-knowledge-assets)\n- [Northern Ireland: Funding to develop and exploit knowledge assets](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/get-funding-to-develop-and-exploit-knowledge-assets)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Fund, publish and commercialise research**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Fund, publish and commercialise research", "source": "services/commercialise-research.md", "title": "Commercialise research within Fund, publish and commercialise research" }, "process": { "id": "fund-publish-and-commercialise-research", "route": "enclosing-process/fund-publish-and-commercialise-research", "title": "Fund, publish and commercialise research" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-innovation-grant", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-innovation-grant", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for an innovation grant" }, { "id": "publish-research", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", 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"source_id": "health-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0aae04075a4afc2345f86d0a", "resource_route": "resource/complain-about-nhs-care-health-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "health-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/complain-about-nhs-care-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "complain-about-nhs-care-primary", "health-scotland-handoff", "health-wales-handoff", "health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "complain-about-nhs-care", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Complain about NHS care\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Use specialist, urgent and health-redress routes** in the **Health throughout life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nStart with the responsible provider or commissioner, keep the complaint record and use the applicable independent review or ombudsman route if unresolved.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: How to complain to the NHS](https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/about-the-nhs/how-to-complain-to-the-nhs/)\n- [Scotland: NHS services in Scotland](https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/)\n- [Wales: NHS 111 Wales](https://111.wales.nhs.uk/)\n- [Northern Ireland: Health and Social Care Northern Ireland online](https://online.hscni.net/)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Use specialist, urgent and health-redress routes**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Use specialist, urgent and health-redress routes", "source": "services/complain-about-nhs-care.md", "title": "Complain about NHS care within Use specialist, urgent and health-redress routes" }, "process": { "id": "use-specialist-urgent-and-health-redress-routes", "route": "enclosing-process/use-specialist-urgent-and-health-redress-routes", "title": "Use specialist, urgent and health-redress routes" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-mental-healthcare", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-mental-healthcare", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access mental healthcare" }, { "id": "receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive hospital referral and treatment" }, { "id": "use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use urgent and emergency health services" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0c7901efc234d1b8f8ce7564", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b75ae4de85c37f53858d507c" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/complain-about-nhs-care", "situations": [ "A person is dissatisfied with NHS service, care, access or complaint handling." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_nhs_complaint_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "complain-about-nhs-care-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not investigate, assess clinical quality, decide remedy or establish devolved procedures." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/788e88fa837516b1ee8d4e0d", "resource_id": "resource:complain-about-nhs-care:complain-about-nhs-care-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/complain-about-nhs-care-complain-about-nhs-care-primary", "summary": "Introduces England provider, commissioner, advocacy and ombudsman complaint routes.", "title": "How to complain to the NHS", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/about-the-nhs/how-to-complain-to-the-nhs/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_health_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "health-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, triage or establish the correct service for an individual situation." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS 24", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/78cdef28bacabfb654d54ed8", "resource_id": "resource:complain-about-nhs-care:health-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/complain-about-nhs-care-health-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current NHS Scotland primary, community, urgent and specialist services.", "title": "NHS services in Scotland", "url": "https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/" }, { "authority_role": "wales_health_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "health-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not replace emergency services or establish that NHS England routes apply in Wales." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Ambulance Services NHS University Trust", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bfc6419ef036e90009e1841a", "resource_id": "resource:complain-about-nhs-care:health-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/complain-about-nhs-care-health-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current NHS Wales service, symptom and urgent-care information.", "title": "NHS 111 Wales", "url": "https://111.wales.nhs.uk/" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_health_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "health-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, triage or establish the responsible trust for an individual situation." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department of Health Northern Ireland", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6e21e22ceeb5fa7b2285ff50", "resource_id": "resource:complain-about-nhs-care:health-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/complain-about-nhs-care-health-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland health and social-care organisations and services.", "title": "Health and Social Care Northern Ireland online", "url": "https://online.hscni.net/" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Complain about NHS care", "user_needs": [ "Identify the accountable body, territorial procedure and escalation route without judging clinical care." ] }, { "aliases": [ "child consent to treatment", "young person medical consent" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "provider": 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"Understand the clinical decision boundary for a child or young person agreeing to treatment.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/01863d85e7c77602a959802c", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/87cee60d4fe834ffd5d53e80" }, "route": "service-episode/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9aa8d16c2baa4a7a03c6c10e", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/36de715721aba987e87dccb9", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/409d58620327108bb65cfa4f", "resource_route": "resource/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-primary", "source_id": "consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/814da85aa7d1d16345866bd0", "resource_route": "resource/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c271a1ce9d28441dcba792fa", "resource_route": "resource/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fc04e234241017c0e3ffdb84", "resource_route": "resource/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-primary", "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to consent to healthcare as a young person and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Understand the clinical decision boundary for a child or young person agreeing to treatment." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7a0e741bddcc6b3ae705ca28", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2a204d18bb7e4d5235df7761", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/724ae4df04d334893217dfd1", "resource_route": "resource/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-primary", "source_id": "consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/36cd0f75c2be61a622029048", "resource_route": "resource/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/130cac9b7b1d139074865236", "resource_route": "resource/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9493b7084b2982d326456bab", "resource_route": "resource/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-primary", "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a345f5a56d42e08c61cf37a0", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/83d3dbb91f691461b00e1a9c" }, "route": "service-episode/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/340341a2bfa2812f2779d619", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ccf53031744810962b02fe2f", "resource_route": "resource/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-primary", "source_id": "consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/524f89beb06165008bfc0ef7", "resource_route": "resource/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2b22a5077c0ea5b36f542cf8", "resource_route": "resource/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/231effd2d7fd17fb7b11bb34", "resource_route": "resource/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-primary", "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Consent to healthcare as a young person\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Move into independent mobility, health and care** in the **Transition to adulthood** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUnderstand the clinical decision boundary for a child or young person agreeing to treatment.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Consent to treatment — children and young people](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/consent-to-treatment/children/)\n- [Scotland: Education and training in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Young people in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Move into independent mobility, health and care**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Move into independent mobility, health and care", "source": "services/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person.md", "title": "Consent to healthcare as a young person within Move into independent mobility, health and care" }, "process": { "id": "move-into-independent-mobility-health-and-care", "route": "enclosing-process/move-into-independent-mobility-health-and-care", "title": "Move into independent mobility, health and care" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-child-trust-fund", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-child-trust-fund", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access a Child Trust Fund" }, { "id": "get-leaving-care-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-leaving-care-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get leaving-care support" }, { "id": "learn-to-drive-car", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/learn-to-drive-car", "sequenced": false, "title": "Learn to drive a car" }, { "id": "transition-to-adult-social-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/transition-to-adult-social-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Transition to adult social care" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e094ddf8a47968b423effe51", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cc9067f2a080003381b18219" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person", "situations": [ "A child, young person, parent or clinician needs authoritative information about consent." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_young_person_treatment_consent_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess capacity, consent, treatment need or urgency." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/88c2049c6d039c0276ab64e1", "resource_id": "resource:consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person:consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-primary", "summary": "Explains the England NHS consent framework and clinician decision boundary.", "title": "Consent to treatment — children and young people", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/consent-to-treatment/children/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8deb0b9be0f8c88b19347a76", "resource_id": "resource:consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person:transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish education, training and transition services.", "title": "Education and training in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/069466e5c10852d4cbcc3bf1", "resource_id": "resource:consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person:transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh learning, skills and transition services.", "title": "Education and skills in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/education-skills" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/65f17e2fd806744794294e56", "resource_id": "resource:consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person:transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes young people to current Northern Ireland services and responsibilities.", "title": "Young people in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Consent to healthcare as a young person", "user_needs": [ "Find the current clinical and legal route without the bundle deciding capacity or consent." ] }, { "aliases": [ "contact my MP", "find councillor or representative", "write to elected member" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "contact-elected-representative-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "contact-elected-representative-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "contact-elected-representative-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "contact-elected-representative-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "contact-elected-representative-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "contact-elected-representative-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "contact-elected-representative-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "contact-elected-representative-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Identify which elected office represents the relevant place or issue and use its published contact and casework route.", "domain": { "id": "citizenship-democracy-and-rights", "route": "life-course-domain/citizenship-democracy-and-rights", "title": "Citizenship, democracy and rights" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person wants to raise an issue with an MP, devolved member, mayor or councillor.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Identify which elected office represents the relevant place or issue and use its published contact and casework route.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/db3c375e6f632ca944f07ee5", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1ea795f4b1482e3e57dfd45b" }, "route": "service-episode/contact-elected-representative-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/33c8fcdf0d9ac0eccbe8d033", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/84bfaaf23f926ef05605024d", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ce0092b2cc77e3c9d843b084", "resource_route": "resource/contact-elected-representative-contact-elected-representative-primary", "source_id": "contact-elected-representative-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/contact-elected-representative-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "contact-elected-representative-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to contact an elected representative and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Identify which elected office represents the relevant place or issue and use its published contact and casework route." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9b20fa15e298d0c89b3d8544", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9de1f4c3c16c52204a195450", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/55f5d93d9d231eff4adf97c3", "resource_route": "resource/contact-elected-representative-contact-elected-representative-primary", "source_id": "contact-elected-representative-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/contact-elected-representative-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "contact-elected-representative-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/25abc8d94b7c9cabec2d61a4", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c038bea2b9431e2ac9f76cc3" }, "route": "service-episode/contact-elected-representative-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0ca95341a262665fc11abe97", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0eba0142577f475e58b0da9b", "resource_route": "resource/contact-elected-representative-contact-elected-representative-primary", "source_id": "contact-elected-representative-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/contact-elected-representative-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "contact-elected-representative-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "contact-elected-representative", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Contact an elected representative\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Participate in democracy and exercise information rights** in the **Citizenship, democracy and rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify which elected office represents the relevant place or issue and use its published contact and casework route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Find your local councillors](https://www.gov.uk/find-your-local-councillors)\n- [Scotland: Find your local councillors](https://www.gov.uk/find-your-local-councillors)\n- [Wales: Find your local councillors](https://www.gov.uk/find-your-local-councillors)\n- [Northern Ireland: Find your local councillors](https://www.gov.uk/find-your-local-councillors)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Participate in democracy and exercise information rights**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Participate in democracy and exercise information rights", "source": "services/contact-elected-representative.md", "title": "Contact an elected representative within Participate in democracy and exercise information rights" }, "process": { "id": "participate-in-democracy-and-exercise-information-rights", "route": "enclosing-process/participate-in-democracy-and-exercise-information-rights", "title": "Participate in democracy and exercise information rights" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "exercise-data-protection-rights", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/exercise-data-protection-rights", "sequenced": false, "title": "Exercise data-protection rights" }, { "id": "maintain-electoral-registration", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/maintain-electoral-registration", "sequenced": false, "title": "Maintain electoral registration" }, { "id": "make-freedom-of-information-request", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/make-freedom-of-information-request", "sequenced": false, "title": "Make a freedom of information request" }, { "id": "perform-jury-service", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/perform-jury-service", "sequenced": false, "title": "Perform jury service" }, { "id": "petition-government", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/petition-government", "sequenced": false, "title": "Petition government" }, { "id": "respond-to-public-consultation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/respond-to-public-consultation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Respond to a public consultation" }, { "id": "stand-for-election", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/stand-for-election", "sequenced": false, "title": "Stand for election" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5333dc667bc779831e1768df", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f5eb86190cdd4a3b56afc0a0" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/contact-elected-representative", "situations": [ "A person wants to raise an issue with an MP, devolved member, mayor or councillor." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_local_representative_contact_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "contact-elected-representative-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify MPs or devolved representatives, submit casework or guarantee a response." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5a887cf9482b11e9078048f8", "resource_id": "resource:contact-elected-representative:contact-elected-representative-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/contact-elected-representative-contact-elected-representative-primary", "summary": "Routes people in England to their council website to identify local elected representatives.", "title": "Find your local councillors", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/find-your-local-councillors" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Contact an elected representative", "user_needs": [ "Match office, geography and responsibility without sending personal information to the bundle." ] }, { "aliases": [ "report rogue trader", "local consumer enforcement", "report illegal sale" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "contact-trading-standards-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "contact-trading-standards-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "contact-trading-standards-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "contact-trading-standards-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Give the designated consumer-advice or local enforcement route facts about a trader, product or practice and retain the referral boundary.", "domain": { "id": "shopping-and-consumer-rights", "route": "life-course-domain/shopping-and-consumer-rights", "title": "Shopping and consumer rights" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A consumer or business has information about a potentially unlawful trading practice.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Give the designated consumer-advice or local enforcement route facts about a trader, product or practice and retain the referral boundary.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5153608eb531fd0a74f0014e", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f848bf92dbbe50dc5914b7e5" }, "route": "service-episode/contact-trading-standards-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/60e67df7d0bfb561ebe648cb", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/949aa1476238370d02a4d51b", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/13d72d7a0ba1ffd32fecc9ed", "resource_route": "resource/contact-trading-standards-contact-trading-standards-primary", "source_id": "contact-trading-standards-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/edad5dc0dc322eb154cf3d65", "resource_route": "resource/contact-trading-standards-consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/20eca8aaa0d011698a54c5ab", "resource_route": "resource/contact-trading-standards-consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/contact-trading-standards-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "contact-trading-standards-primary", "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to contact trading standards and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Give the designated consumer-advice or local enforcement route facts about a trader, product or practice and retain the referral boundary." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ebfa5bf37068a7e5abf0923f", "resource_route": "resource/contact-trading-standards-consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/contact-trading-standards-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "contact-trading-standards-primary", "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9061854c3a04e5cbe50e56ed", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b294b7f5a844e6f4001e479d" }, "route": "service-episode/contact-trading-standards-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/339d497bd31508a705e86b1f", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3cbac6fdf8f84c4f4371a560", "resource_route": "resource/contact-trading-standards-contact-trading-standards-primary", "source_id": "contact-trading-standards-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/317a7e863dbe1e522919a8d5", "resource_route": "resource/contact-trading-standards-consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ed58c71686acc630c8eb7de8", "resource_route": "resource/contact-trading-standards-consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/contact-trading-standards-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "contact-trading-standards-primary", "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "contact-trading-standards", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Contact Trading Standards\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Report harm and use consumer redress** in the **Shopping and consumer rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nGive the designated consumer-advice or local enforcement route facts about a trader, product or practice and retain the referral boundary.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Find your local Trading Standards office](https://www.gov.uk/find-local-trading-standards-office)\n- [Scotland: Consumer rights in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/consumer-rights)\n- [Wales: Find your local Trading Standards office](https://www.gov.uk/find-local-trading-standards-office)\n- [Northern Ireland: Consumer rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Report harm and use consumer redress**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Report harm and use consumer redress", "source": "services/contact-trading-standards.md", "title": "Contact Trading Standards within Report harm and use consumer redress" }, "process": { "id": "report-harm-and-use-consumer-redress", "route": "enclosing-process/report-harm-and-use-consumer-redress", "title": "Report harm and use consumer redress" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "make-small-money-claim", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/make-small-money-claim", "sequenced": false, "title": "Make a small money claim" }, { "id": "report-product-safety-issue", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-product-safety-issue", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a product safety issue" }, { "id": "report-scam-or-fraud", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-scam-or-fraud", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a scam or fraud" }, { "id": "use-sector-ombudsman", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-sector-ombudsman", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a sector ombudsman" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6eecaa256031a6ca4e600641", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3a95b065215ed16e4f3d2722" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/contact-trading-standards", "situations": [ "A consumer or business has information about a potentially unlawful trading practice." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_scotland_trading_standards_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "contact-trading-standards-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not create an investigation, decide an offence or promise individual redress." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Business and Trade", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1a17bb55bde855a710123da8", "resource_id": "resource:contact-trading-standards:contact-trading-standards-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/contact-trading-standards-contact-trading-standards-primary", "summary": "Routes Great Britain users to the designated consumer service or local Trading Standards contact.", "title": "Find your local Trading Standards office", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/find-local-trading-standards-office" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_consumer_rights_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide whether goods, services, terms or credit breach a consumer's rights." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0cfcfa7e383e8e275ef9dba0", "resource_id": "resource:contact-trading-standards:consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/contact-trading-standards-consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish consumer advice, complaint and enforcement information.", "title": "Consumer rights in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/consumer-rights" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_consumer_rights_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain civil and consumer procedure does not establish Northern Ireland redress." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Competition and Markets Authority", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/17c18bf8cf5b3ba41ee4c4eb", "resource_id": "resource:contact-trading-standards:consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/contact-trading-standards-consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland consumer advice, complaints and enforcement.", "title": "Consumer rights in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Contact Trading Standards", "user_needs": [ "Use the correct advice gateway and understand that enforcement action is an authority decision." ] }, { "aliases": [ "challenge congestion charge", "appeal clean air zone charge", "road toll dispute" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "contest-road-user-charge-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "contest-road-user-charge-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "contest-road-user-charge-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "contest-road-user-charge-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Identify the exact charging scheme, preserve journey and payment evidence and use its representation and adjudication route.", 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"not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2e6eb72ef19e1adaaab07ce7", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7b281dc7e15a2119bc51b86c", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2270df330d84f3e28a1ff2bc", "resource_route": "resource/contest-road-user-charge-contest-road-user-charge-primary", "source_id": "contest-road-user-charge-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d6a5e8091bf31ef5f994afec", "resource_route": "resource/contest-road-user-charge-transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/16723b5b9cb4a754e85c74dc", "resource_route": "resource/contest-road-user-charge-transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/contest-road-user-charge-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "contest-road-user-charge-primary", "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to contest a road-user charge and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Identify the exact charging scheme, preserve 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4474f07249197b5db00a30a2", "resource_route": "resource/contest-road-user-charge-transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a8bf4de4754482c80ec477eb", "resource_route": "resource/contest-road-user-charge-transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/contest-road-user-charge-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "contest-road-user-charge-primary", "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/691eabca9ffb610116d8b983", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b5f24770115e6ddcab811f05" }, "route": "service-episode/contest-road-user-charge-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ebfe4da0b6cacaf1eb4e1f43", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/99e54108a7a02d91360b80c2", "resource_route": "resource/contest-road-user-charge-contest-road-user-charge-primary", "source_id": "contest-road-user-charge-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/800b30cb08ed690e374f12b5", "resource_route": "resource/contest-road-user-charge-transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c8c2ed960cae94c44a9a1c77", "resource_route": "resource/contest-road-user-charge-transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/contest-road-user-charge-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "contest-road-user-charge-primary", "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "contest-road-user-charge", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Contest a road-user charge\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution** in the **Transport enforcement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the exact charging scheme, preserve journey and payment evidence and use its representation and adjudication route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Drive in a clean air zone](https://www.gov.uk/clean-air-zones)\n- [Scotland: Road safety, parking tickets, fines and bans in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport/penalty-points-fines)\n- [Wales: Drive in a clean air zone](https://www.gov.uk/clean-air-zones)\n- [Northern Ireland: Motoring offences in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/fixed-penalties-motoring-offences)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution", "source": "services/contest-road-user-charge.md", "title": "Contest a road-user charge within Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution" }, "process": { "id": "challenge-restriction-removal-or-prosecution", "route": "enclosing-process/challenge-restriction-removal-or-prosecution", "title": "Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "appeal-to-traffic-penalty-tribunal", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/appeal-to-traffic-penalty-tribunal", "sequenced": false, "title": "Appeal to a traffic penalty tribunal" }, { "id": "respond-to-driving-disqualification", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/respond-to-driving-disqualification", "sequenced": false, "title": "Respond to driving disqualification" }, { "id": "respond-to-transport-prosecution", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/respond-to-transport-prosecution", "sequenced": false, "title": "Respond to a transport prosecution" }, { "id": "respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal", "sequenced": false, "title": "Respond to vehicle clamping or removal" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5f5b9f7710e3994c5eee2635", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/51580f4534ecc91c900b6d5e" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/contest-road-user-charge", "situations": [ "A person disputes a road-user, congestion, emissions or crossing charge or penalty." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_clean_air_zone_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "contest-road-user-charge-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not cover every road-user charge or determine payment, exemption, penalty or appeal." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Transport", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c87227cf0121841e26faace0", "resource_id": "resource:contest-road-user-charge:contest-road-user-charge-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/contest-road-user-charge-contest-road-user-charge-primary", "summary": "Routes users to England clean-air-zone checking, payment and local penalty information.", "title": "Drive in a clean air zone", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/clean-air-zones" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transport_enforcement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine whether a notice, penalty, prosecution or appeal is valid." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e91ff986eb8a2deaec0c8dd4", "resource_id": "resource:contest-road-user-charge:transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/contest-road-user-charge-transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish road-safety, parking, fine and driving-ban information.", "title": "Road safety, parking tickets, fines and bans in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport/penalty-points-fines" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transport_enforcement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "England, Wales and Scotland enforcement routes do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e3defa949fa05912c2de1fda", "resource_id": "resource:contest-road-user-charge:transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/contest-road-user-charge-transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland motoring-offence, penalty and court information.", "title": "Motoring offences in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/fixed-penalties-motoring-offences" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Contest a road-user charge", "user_needs": [ "Avoid combining distinct national and local schemes and find the scheme-specific redress body." ] }, { "aliases": [ "amend a birth certificate", "correct birth record" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "correct-a-birth-registration-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "correct-a-birth-registration-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "correct-a-birth-registration-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "correct-a-birth-registration-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Navigate the responsible register's process for correcting an error in a completed birth entry.", "domain": { "id": "birth-and-newborn", "route": "life-course-domain/birth-and-newborn", "title": "Birth and the newborn period" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person believes information in a birth registration is incorrect or incomplete.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Navigate the responsible register's process for correcting an error in a completed birth entry.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/18e6c8a33bc7a3e2dcbc1578", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8183c8ed1e928febd7d9477f" }, "route": "service-episode/correct-a-birth-registration-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1245a7f00383edaaaf40a23c", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1af667e335f6533c2f3df025", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a3771edcbb0b891acd3e55f4", "resource_route": "resource/correct-a-birth-registration-correct-a-birth-registration-primary", "source_id": "correct-a-birth-registration-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fa516550b8eb51d3db1af991", "resource_route": "resource/correct-a-birth-registration-birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c278fb1a750167f67632c2ba", "resource_route": "resource/correct-a-birth-registration-birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/correct-a-birth-registration-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "correct-a-birth-registration-primary", "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to correct a birth registration and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Navigate the responsible register's process for correcting an error in a completed birth entry." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c6319beb1b9b6ec611565164", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/458b1f1ec9402e868f4f8d22", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/68b0aa932ec936c6cbfc18af", "resource_route": "resource/correct-a-birth-registration-correct-a-birth-registration-primary", "source_id": "correct-a-birth-registration-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3a683ce849e81045466668e5", "resource_route": "resource/correct-a-birth-registration-birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dcc5c48c71b80039fea9e6ca", "resource_route": "resource/correct-a-birth-registration-birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/correct-a-birth-registration-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "correct-a-birth-registration-primary", "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ea8c59a6de1ac4ac3eebfe98", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/adf6809d3820eec6d2416a6c" }, "route": "service-episode/correct-a-birth-registration-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a434611ee468788e8c4772a5", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/df869b05a7a4e748f402c57a", "resource_route": "resource/correct-a-birth-registration-correct-a-birth-registration-primary", "source_id": "correct-a-birth-registration-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/659ddfdd74a8cd4380881419", "resource_route": "resource/correct-a-birth-registration-birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a80bb8931e9707a67cdc88d5", "resource_route": "resource/correct-a-birth-registration-birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/correct-a-birth-registration-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "correct-a-birth-registration-primary", "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "correct-a-birth-registration", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Correct a birth registration\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish a child's legal identity** in the **Birth and the newborn period** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNavigate the responsible register's process for correcting an error in a completed birth entry.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Correct a birth registration](https://www.gov.uk/correct-birth-registration)\n- [Scotland: Register a birth in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/register-birth)\n- [Wales: Correct a birth registration](https://www.gov.uk/correct-birth-registration)\n- [Northern Ireland: Registering and naming your baby](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/registering-and-naming-your-baby)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish a child's legal identity**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish a child's legal identity", "source": "services/correct-a-birth-registration.md", "title": "Correct a birth registration within Establish a child's legal identity" }, "process": { "id": "establish-a-childs-legal-identity", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-a-childs-legal-identity", "title": "Establish a child's legal identity" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "check-child-nationality-status", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-child-nationality-status", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check a child's nationality status" }, { "id": "claim-child-benefit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-child-benefit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Child Benefit" }, { "id": "establish-parental-responsibility", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/establish-parental-responsibility", "sequenced": false, "title": "Establish parental responsibility" }, { "id": "obtain-birth-certificates", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-birth-certificates", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain birth certificates" }, { "id": "obtain-child-passport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-child-passport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a child passport" }, { "id": "register-a-birth", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-a-birth", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a birth" }, { "id": "register-a-stillbirth", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-a-stillbirth", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a stillbirth" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/eb1dce377af075de7acab1cb", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bfb63e4bcdd5a1c43d4498e9" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/correct-a-birth-registration", "situations": [ "A person believes information in a birth registration is incorrect or incomplete." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_birth_registration_correction", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "correct-a-birth-registration-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide whether a correction is permitted, change legal parentage or establish another nation's route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "General Register Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3159f9db307bb655ea18bf5e", "resource_id": "resource:correct-a-birth-registration:correct-a-birth-registration-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/correct-a-birth-registration-correct-a-birth-registration-primary", "summary": "Provides the England and Wales route for applying to correct a birth registration.", "title": "Correct a birth registration", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/correct-birth-registration" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_birth_registration_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove another newborn family's clinical, benefit, passport or nationality rules." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ef6f4c34b340c89a21934743", "resource_id": "resource:correct-a-birth-registration:birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/correct-a-birth-registration-birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Scotland through the current birth-registration service and its local registrar handoff.", "title": "Register a birth in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/register-birth" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_birth_and_newborn_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove every newborn health, benefit, passport or nationality rule." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a8d635bee3eaecd3a587a200", "resource_id": "resource:correct-a-birth-registration:birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/correct-a-birth-registration-birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Explains Northern Ireland birth registration and the registration-card handoff into GP registration.", "title": "Registering and naming your baby", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/registering-and-naming-your-baby" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Correct a birth registration", "user_needs": [ "Find the register, evidence, fee, decision and challenge route for the jurisdiction." ] }, { "aliases": [ "customs allowance on return", "bring goods into UK", "declare cash or purchases" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": 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"state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/88f41226dadeb55ecd995c59", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a6ea286cbaaf0f8a101fbb0b", "resource_route": "resource/declare-goods-at-customs-declare-goods-at-customs-primary", "source_id": "declare-goods-at-customs-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/declare-goods-at-customs-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "declare-goods-at-customs-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "declare-goods-at-customs", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Declare goods at customs\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Prepare for international travel** in the **Holidays, volunteering and living overseas** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck the route, goods, value and allowance rules and use the current declaration channel before or at the border when required.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Bringing goods into the UK for personal use](https://www.gov.uk/bringing-goods-into-uk-personal-use)\n- [Scotland: Bringing goods into the UK for personal use](https://www.gov.uk/bringing-goods-into-uk-personal-use)\n- [Wales: Bringing goods into the UK for personal use](https://www.gov.uk/bringing-goods-into-uk-personal-use)\n- [Northern Ireland: Bringing goods into the UK for personal use](https://www.gov.uk/bringing-goods-into-uk-personal-use)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Prepare for international travel**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Prepare for international travel", "source": "services/declare-goods-at-customs.md", "title": "Declare goods at customs within Prepare for international travel" }, "process": { "id": "prepare-for-international-travel", "route": "enclosing-process/prepare-for-international-travel", "title": "Prepare for international travel" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "buy-travel-insurance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/buy-travel-insurance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Buy travel insurance" }, { "id": "check-entry-requirements", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-entry-requirements", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check entry requirements" }, { "id": "check-foreign-travel-advice", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-foreign-travel-advice", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check foreign travel advice" }, { "id": "drive-abroad", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/drive-abroad", "sequenced": false, "title": "Drive abroad" }, { "id": "get-travel-vaccination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-travel-vaccination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a travel vaccination" }, { "id": "obtain-ghic-or-ehic", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-ghic-or-ehic", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a GHIC or EHIC" }, { "id": "renew-passport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/renew-passport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Renew a passport" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/65092daa3cc24cbdd019f7d4", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1d3c24073380be47d5be128c", "resource_route": "resource/dispose-of-hazardous-waste-dispose-of-hazardous-waste-primary", "source_id": "dispose-of-hazardous-waste-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6908a4ad439e1c8368b1a430", "resource_route": "resource/dispose-of-hazardous-waste-rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "rubbish-street-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/24a712b2107a98f72430cb56", "resource_route": "resource/dispose-of-hazardous-waste-rubbish-street-wales-handoff", "source_id": "rubbish-street-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/aae9588ec877482e4fa9a452", "resource_route": 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safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Dispose of hazardous waste\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Manage household waste collections** in the **Rubbish, recycling and the street** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the material and use the authority or licensed-provider route that accepts it without mixing it into ordinary waste.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Hazardous waste disposal](https://www.gov.uk/hazardous-waste-disposal)\n- [Scotland: Bins and recycling in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services/rubbish-and-recycling)\n- [Wales: Recycling and waste in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/recycling-waste-circular-economy)\n- [Northern Ireland: Rubbish, recycling and waste in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/environment-and-outdoors/waste-and-recycling)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Manage household waste collections**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Manage household waste collections", "source": "services/dispose-of-hazardous-waste.md", "title": "Dispose of hazardous waste within Manage household waste collections" }, "process": { "id": "manage-household-waste-collections", "route": "enclosing-process/manage-household-waste-collections", "title": "Manage household waste collections" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-bulky-waste-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-bulky-waste-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange bulky waste collection" }, { "id": "arrange-clinical-waste-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-clinical-waste-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange clinical waste collection" }, { "id": "arrange-garden-waste-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-garden-waste-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange garden waste collection" }, { "id": "order-replacement-waste-container", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/order-replacement-waste-container", "sequenced": false, "title": "Order a replacement waste container" }, { "id": "report-missed-rubbish-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-missed-rubbish-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a missed rubbish collection" }, { "id": "use-household-recycling-service", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-household-recycling-service", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a household recycling service" }, { "id": "view-waste-collection-schedule", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/view-waste-collection-schedule", "sequenced": false, "title": "View the waste collection schedule" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/03e25e619e5a942908f881a8", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bb2cf97dd659b15c94dde3a3" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/dispose-of-hazardous-waste", "situations": [ "A household or responsible person needs to dispose of material that may be hazardous." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_hazardous_waste_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "dispose-of-hazardous-waste-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not classify an unknown substance, provide emergency advice or authorise transport or disposal." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/553db5e98dfa692effc3aa77", "resource_id": "resource:dispose-of-hazardous-waste:dispose-of-hazardous-waste-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/dispose-of-hazardous-waste-dispose-of-hazardous-waste-primary", "summary": "Introduces England hazardous-waste responsibilities and household council handoffs.", "title": "Hazardous waste disposal", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/hazardous-waste-disposal" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_waste_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine collection arrangements, accepted materials, charges or 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"resource/divorce-or-dissolve-partnership-divorce-or-dissolve-partnership-primary", "source_id": "divorce-or-dissolve-partnership-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5cad4ce517ba1925089abbe8", "resource_route": "resource/divorce-or-dissolve-partnership-family-change-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f594b077788ca2f3d708a84d", "resource_route": "resource/divorce-or-dissolve-partnership-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/divorce-or-dissolve-partnership-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this 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{ "body": "# Divorce or dissolve a partnership\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Form, change and support family relationships** in the **Relationships and family change** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the applicable court route to end the legal relationship and handle children, money, property and immigration consequences through their separate processes.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Get a divorce](https://www.gov.uk/divorce)\n- [Scotland: Births, deaths and family in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family)\n- [Wales: Get a divorce](https://www.gov.uk/divorce)\n- [Northern Ireland: Find out your rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/find-out-your-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Form, change and support family relationships**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Form, change and support family relationships", "source": "services/divorce-or-dissolve-partnership.md", "title": "Divorce or dissolve a partnership within Form, change and support family relationships" }, "process": { "id": "form-change-and-support-family-relationships", "route": "enclosing-process/form-change-and-support-family-relationships", "title": "Form, change and support family relationships" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "adopt-child", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/adopt-child", "sequenced": false, "title": "Adopt a child" }, { "id": "arrange-child-maintenance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-child-maintenance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange child maintenance" }, { "id": "change-name", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/change-name", "sequenced": false, "title": "Change name" }, { "id": "form-civil-partnership", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/form-civil-partnership", "sequenced": false, "title": "Form a civil partnership" }, { "id": "marry", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/marry", "sequenced": false, "title": "Marry" }, { "id": "resolve-parental-responsibility", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/resolve-parental-responsibility", "sequenced": false, "title": "Resolve parental responsibility" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7a967d92836f2a3ca76e1cb3", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4f38539bd5f001c62d749e37" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/divorce-or-dissolve-partnership", "situations": [ "A spouse or civil partner wants to end the legal relationship." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_divorce_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "divorce-or-dissolve-partnership-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not provide legal advice, decide financial or child arrangements or establish devolved procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "HM Courts and Tribunals Service", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1fd80afe079660937bd091fb", "resource_id": "resource:divorce-or-dissolve-partnership:divorce-or-dissolve-partnership-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/divorce-or-dissolve-partnership-divorce-or-dissolve-partnership-primary", "summary": "Routes England and Wales applicants through current divorce eligibility, application and order stages.", "title": "Get a divorce", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/divorce" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_family_change_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "family-change-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine status, legal rights, eligibility, safeguarding action or an individual court route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/21452e2ced530e80f8659b38", "resource_id": "resource:divorce-or-dissolve-partnership:family-change-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/divorce-or-dissolve-partnership-family-change-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish marriage, civil partnership, family, care and representation information.", "title": "Births, deaths and family in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_family_change_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish the applicable court, safeguarding, care or representation route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/750ea55d94b8ed8eee13e4de", "resource_id": "resource:divorce-or-dissolve-partnership:family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/divorce-or-dissolve-partnership-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Introduces Northern Ireland marriage, civil partnership, separation, parental-responsibility, family-safety and wider rights handoffs.", "title": "Find out your rights in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/find-out-your-rights" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Divorce or dissolve a partnership", "user_needs": [ "Find the correct court, application and linked family arrangements without receiving legal advice." ] }, { "aliases": [ "take car overseas", "international driving permit", "driving licence abroad" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "drive-abroad-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "drive-abroad-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "drive-abroad-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "drive-abroad-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "drive-abroad-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "drive-abroad-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "drive-abroad-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "drive-abroad-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Check destination licence, permit, vehicle, insurance and road-rule requirements and obtain documents through current official routes.", "domain": { "id": "holidays-volunteering-and-living-overseas", "route": "life-course-domain/holidays-volunteering-and-living-overseas", "title": "Holidays, volunteering and living overseas" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A driver plans to drive a UK or hired vehicle in another country.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Check destination licence, permit, vehicle, insurance and road-rule requirements and obtain documents through current official routes.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c1f5284a7513b7ba8c3f1e52", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0833a062ff3798c411e3be11" }, "route": "service-episode/drive-abroad-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9185d28c8fb0f355bed8955e", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1ff869b3c8d3979660f1eadf", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/21fb58102bdc2395d912e5e6", "resource_route": "resource/drive-abroad-drive-abroad-primary", "source_id": "drive-abroad-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/drive-abroad-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "drive-abroad-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to drive abroad and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Check destination licence, permit, vehicle, insurance and road-rule requirements and obtain documents through current official routes." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/625b91ed8038e72fb5674fa4", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c945559f3534ae9780b486dd", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/92b183bd2f8c97a8330d131d", "resource_route": "resource/drive-abroad-drive-abroad-primary", "source_id": "drive-abroad-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/drive-abroad-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "drive-abroad-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1b385ffaa05b1b7c75b1b406", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/26063eaa81284f4464c2617d" }, "route": "service-episode/drive-abroad-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/024c60d83344d0eb314de661", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e1ba3c619e2d402103574d5a", "resource_route": "resource/drive-abroad-drive-abroad-primary", "source_id": "drive-abroad-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/drive-abroad-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "drive-abroad-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "drive-abroad", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Drive abroad\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Prepare for international travel** in the **Holidays, volunteering and living overseas** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck destination licence, permit, vehicle, insurance and road-rule requirements and obtain documents through current official routes.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Driving abroad](https://www.gov.uk/driving-abroad)\n- [Scotland: Driving abroad](https://www.gov.uk/driving-abroad)\n- [Wales: Driving abroad](https://www.gov.uk/driving-abroad)\n- [Northern Ireland: Driving abroad](https://www.gov.uk/driving-abroad)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Prepare for international travel**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Prepare for international travel", "source": "services/drive-abroad.md", "title": "Drive abroad within Prepare for international travel" }, "process": { "id": "prepare-for-international-travel", "route": "enclosing-process/prepare-for-international-travel", "title": "Prepare for international travel" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "buy-travel-insurance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/buy-travel-insurance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Buy travel insurance" }, { "id": "check-entry-requirements", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-entry-requirements", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check entry requirements" }, { "id": "check-foreign-travel-advice", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-foreign-travel-advice", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check foreign travel advice" }, { "id": "declare-goods-at-customs", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/declare-goods-at-customs", "sequenced": false, "title": "Declare goods at customs" }, { "id": "get-travel-vaccination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-travel-vaccination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a travel vaccination" }, { "id": "obtain-ghic-or-ehic", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-ghic-or-ehic", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a GHIC or EHIC" }, { "id": "renew-passport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/renew-passport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Renew a passport" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/57ceb62a59a1292508e39467", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/21d2ac7ccd8ab91f48d91b36" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/drive-abroad", "situations": [ "A driver plans to drive a UK or hired vehicle in another country." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_driving_abroad_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "drive-abroad-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish destination law, guarantee hire acceptance or replace insurer and vehicle-owner checks." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Transport", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d163591602ba96ee7e890c2a", "resource_id": "resource:drive-abroad:drive-abroad-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/drive-abroad-drive-abroad-primary", "summary": "Routes UK drivers to current licence, permit, vehicle-document and insurance information.", "title": "Driving abroad", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/driving-abroad" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Drive abroad", "user_needs": [ "Coordinate driver, vehicle, insurance and destination rules without assuming UK documents are sufficient." ] }, { "aliases": [ "apply for bankruptcy", "formal insolvency for debts" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "enter-personal-insolvency-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "enter-personal-insolvency-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "enter-personal-insolvency-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "enter-personal-insolvency-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "enter-personal-insolvency-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "enter-personal-insolvency-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "enter-personal-insolvency-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "enter-personal-insolvency-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Use the applicable formal insolvency route only after advice, then retain adjudicator, trustee and creditor outputs.", "domain": { "id": "money-tax-and-benefits", "route": "life-course-domain/money-tax-and-benefits", "title": "Money, tax and benefits" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person is considering bankruptcy or another formal insolvency process.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Use the applicable formal insolvency route only after advice, then retain adjudicator, trustee and creditor outputs.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/afa37a6c48803d9f84357f5a", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/70b2238810a00e72ddc55ba0" }, "route": "service-episode/enter-personal-insolvency-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7025ebeb3dcb55c563de158f", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6226c11ee6159b7c79f86268", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9914e6e47cb881fd5706bbf5", "resource_route": "resource/enter-personal-insolvency-enter-personal-insolvency-primary", "source_id": "enter-personal-insolvency-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/enter-personal-insolvency-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "enter-personal-insolvency-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to enter personal insolvency and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the applicable formal insolvency route only after advice, then retain adjudicator, trustee and creditor outputs." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress 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"enter-personal-insolvency-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d01318ab3faffb247f259d2d", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/aafa1bc1edb9c3829f91ad2c" }, "route": "service-episode/enter-personal-insolvency-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/75f3a10bac84d37d7054e1a6", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/46320b2a1fb2fb472e6c968c", "resource_route": "resource/enter-personal-insolvency-enter-personal-insolvency-primary", "source_id": "enter-personal-insolvency-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/enter-personal-insolvency-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "enter-personal-insolvency-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "enter-personal-insolvency", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Enter personal insolvency\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Claim support and resolve debt** in the **Money, tax and benefits** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the applicable formal insolvency route only after advice, then retain adjudicator, trustee and creditor outputs.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Apply for bankruptcy](https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-bankruptcy)\n- [Scotland: Apply for bankruptcy](https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-bankruptcy)\n- [Wales: Apply for bankruptcy](https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-bankruptcy)\n- [Northern Ireland: Apply for bankruptcy](https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-bankruptcy)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Claim support and resolve debt**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Claim support and resolve debt", "source": "services/enter-personal-insolvency.md", "title": "Enter personal insolvency within Claim support and resolve debt" }, "process": { "id": "claim-support-and-resolve-debt", "route": "enclosing-process/claim-support-and-resolve-debt", "title": "Claim support and resolve debt" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-disability-benefit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-disability-benefit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim a disability benefit" }, { "id": "claim-universal-credit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-universal-credit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Universal Credit" }, { "id": "get-debt-advice-and-relief", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-debt-advice-and-relief", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get debt advice and relief" }, { "id": "report-benefit-change-of-circumstances", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-benefit-change-of-circumstances", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a benefit change of circumstances" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/14f1d9d549ebf1798fe51d7d", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6bdcbf4863e0adf121b61576" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/enter-personal-insolvency", "situations": [ "A person is considering bankruptcy or another formal insolvency process." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": 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"rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "establish-parental-responsibility-primary", "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to establish parental responsibility and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Navigate the registration, 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"summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/369ce7cb68016f5fa35c7b95", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b8dc0175a3a1eb0648309a75", "resource_route": "resource/establish-parental-responsibility-establish-parental-responsibility-primary", "source_id": "establish-parental-responsibility-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b4e3517cd44ac49cf60a2ae8", "resource_route": "resource/establish-parental-responsibility-birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/81a5035a63d8e9d0170633c6", "resource_route": "resource/establish-parental-responsibility-birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure 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condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Establish parental responsibility\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish a child's legal identity** in the **Birth and the newborn period** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNavigate the registration, agreement or court handoffs through which parental responsibility may be established.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Parental rights and responsibilities](https://www.gov.uk/parental-rights-responsibilities)\n- [Scotland: Register a birth in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/register-birth)\n- [Wales: Parental rights and responsibilities](https://www.gov.uk/parental-rights-responsibilities)\n- [Northern Ireland: Registering and naming your baby](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/registering-and-naming-your-baby)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish a child's legal identity**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish a child's legal identity", "source": "services/establish-parental-responsibility.md", "title": "Establish parental responsibility within Establish a child's legal identity" }, "process": { "id": "establish-a-childs-legal-identity", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-a-childs-legal-identity", "title": "Establish a child's legal identity" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "check-child-nationality-status", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-child-nationality-status", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check a child's nationality status" }, { "id": "claim-child-benefit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-child-benefit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Child Benefit" }, { "id": "correct-a-birth-registration", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/correct-a-birth-registration", "sequenced": false, "title": "Correct a birth registration" }, { "id": "obtain-birth-certificates", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-birth-certificates", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain birth certificates" }, { "id": "obtain-child-passport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-child-passport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a child passport" }, { "id": "register-a-birth", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-a-birth", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a birth" }, { "id": "register-a-stillbirth", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-a-stillbirth", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a stillbirth" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9e1fb1628d76ee8fef7c8797", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/241f9d9c4088b7cdc9086a8d" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/establish-parental-responsibility", "situations": [ "A parent or carer needs to understand whether and how parental responsibility is recorded or obtained." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_parental_responsibility_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "establish-parental-responsibility-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide status, parentage, agreement validity, welfare or a court application." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Justice", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": 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"rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "establish-social-enterprise-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "establish-social-enterprise", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Establish a social enterprise\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Form and register an organisation** in the **Starting and running an organisation** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nDefine the social purpose, choose a legal structure and use its company, charity, co-operative, tax and regulator routes as applicable.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Setting up a social enterprise](https://www.gov.uk/set-up-a-social-enterprise)\n- [Scotland: Setting up a social enterprise](https://www.gov.uk/set-up-a-social-enterprise)\n- [Wales: Setting up a social enterprise](https://www.gov.uk/set-up-a-social-enterprise)\n- [Northern Ireland: Setting up a social enterprise](https://www.gov.uk/set-up-a-social-enterprise)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Form and register an organisation**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Form and register an organisation", "source": "services/establish-social-enterprise.md", "title": "Establish a social enterprise within Form and register an organisation" }, "process": { "id": "form-and-register-an-organisation", "route": "enclosing-process/form-and-register-an-organisation", "title": "Form and register an organisation" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "form-business-partnership", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/form-business-partnership", "sequenced": false, "title": "Form a business partnership" }, { "id": "incorporate-company", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/incorporate-company", "sequenced": false, "title": "Incorporate a company" }, { "id": "register-as-sole-trader", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-as-sole-trader", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register as a sole trader" }, { "id": "register-business-taxes", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-business-taxes", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register business taxes" }, { "id": "register-charity", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-charity", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a charity" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/35d0e2eec9551c5e784e400d", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/093cf9c6bb30514c2fdb41d1" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/establish-social-enterprise", "situations": 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discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Exercise consumer rights for goods\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Exercise contract and remedy rights** in the **Shopping and consumer rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nPreserve the purchase and defect evidence, state the requested statutory remedy to the trader and use the applicable escalation route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Consumer rights](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n- [Scotland: Consumer rights in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/consumer-rights)\n- [Wales: Consumer rights](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n- [Northern Ireland: Consumer rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Exercise contract and remedy rights**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Exercise contract and remedy rights", "source": "services/exercise-consumer-rights-for-goods.md", "title": "Exercise consumer rights for goods within Exercise contract and remedy rights" }, "process": { "id": "exercise-contract-and-remedy-rights", "route": "enclosing-process/exercise-contract-and-remedy-rights", "title": "Exercise contract and remedy rights" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "cancel-distance-contract", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/cancel-distance-contract", "sequenced": false, "title": "Cancel a distance contract" }, { "id": "challenge-unfair-contract-term", "relationship": 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high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Exercise consumer rights for services\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Exercise contract and remedy rights** in the **Shopping and consumer rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nRecord the agreement and performance problem, ask the trader for the applicable repeat performance or price remedy and retain its response.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Consumer rights](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n- [Scotland: Consumer rights in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/consumer-rights)\n- [Wales: Consumer rights](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n- [Northern Ireland: Consumer rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Exercise contract and remedy rights**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Exercise contract and remedy rights", "source": "services/exercise-consumer-rights-for-services.md", "title": "Exercise consumer rights for services within Exercise contract and remedy rights" }, "process": { "id": "exercise-contract-and-remedy-rights", "route": "enclosing-process/exercise-contract-and-remedy-rights", "title": "Exercise contract and remedy rights" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "cancel-distance-contract", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/cancel-distance-contract", "sequenced": false, "title": "Cancel a distance contract" }, { "id": "challenge-unfair-contract-term", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/challenge-unfair-contract-term", "sequenced": false, "title": "Challenge an unfair contract term" }, { "id": "exercise-consumer-rights-for-goods", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/exercise-consumer-rights-for-goods", "sequenced": false, "title": "Exercise consumer rights for goods" }, { "id": "exercise-digital-content-rights", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/exercise-digital-content-rights", "sequenced": false, "title": "Exercise digital content rights" }, { "id": "resolve-consumer-credit-dispute", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/resolve-consumer-credit-dispute", "sequenced": false, "title": "Resolve a consumer credit dispute" }, { "id": "seek-refund-repair-or-replacement", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/seek-refund-repair-or-replacement", "sequenced": false, "title": "Seek a refund, repair or replacement" } ], 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"jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "exercise-data-protection-rights-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "exercise-data-protection-rights-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Identify the controller and right, make a clear request, retain the response and use the complaint or court route if unresolved.", "domain": { "id": "citizenship-democracy-and-rights", "route": "life-course-domain/citizenship-democracy-and-rights", "title": "Citizenship, democracy and rights" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person wants access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection or another governed personal-data right.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Identify the controller and right, make a clear 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}, "route": "service-step/exercise-data-protection-rights-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "exercise-data-protection-rights-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to exercise data-protection rights and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", 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"enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f4fc811659d57ce24ef44ab6", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3e39125b0ba3160feb3c7f0d" }, "route": "service-episode/exercise-data-protection-rights-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3e20f84d51fd7dbce42d004f", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2701335ab8dd63c122148e63", "resource_route": "resource/exercise-data-protection-rights-exercise-data-protection-rights-primary", "source_id": "exercise-data-protection-rights-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/exercise-data-protection-rights-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "exercise-data-protection-rights-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "exercise-data-protection-rights", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Exercise data-protection rights\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Participate in democracy and exercise information rights** in the **Citizenship, democracy and rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the controller and right, make a clear request, retain the response and use the complaint or court route if unresolved.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Data protection](https://www.gov.uk/data-protection)\n- [Scotland: Data protection](https://www.gov.uk/data-protection)\n- [Wales: Data protection](https://www.gov.uk/data-protection)\n- [Northern Ireland: Data protection](https://www.gov.uk/data-protection)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Participate in democracy and exercise information rights**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Participate in democracy and exercise information rights", "source": "services/exercise-data-protection-rights.md", "title": "Exercise data-protection rights within Participate in democracy and exercise information rights" }, "process": { "id": "participate-in-democracy-and-exercise-information-rights", "route": "enclosing-process/participate-in-democracy-and-exercise-information-rights", "title": "Participate in democracy and exercise information rights" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "contact-elected-representative", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/contact-elected-representative", "sequenced": false, "title": 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"resource_route": "resource/exercise-digital-content-rights-exercise-digital-content-rights-primary", "source_id": "exercise-digital-content-rights-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0653ff4b53080f93d624c224", "resource_route": "resource/exercise-digital-content-rights-consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/12b0b61b7fbeef0f4eb37e8a", "resource_route": "resource/exercise-digital-content-rights-consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/exercise-digital-content-rights-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal 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release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Exercise digital content rights\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Exercise contract and remedy rights** in the **Shopping and consumer rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nPreserve account, payment and fault evidence and use the trader or platform route for repair, replacement, refund or damage claims where applicable.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Consumer rights](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n- [Scotland: Consumer rights in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/consumer-rights)\n- [Wales: Consumer rights](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n- [Northern Ireland: Consumer rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Exercise contract and remedy rights**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Exercise contract and remedy rights", "source": "services/exercise-digital-content-rights.md", "title": "Exercise digital content rights within Exercise contract and remedy rights" }, "process": { "id": "exercise-contract-and-remedy-rights", "route": "enclosing-process/exercise-contract-and-remedy-rights", "title": "Exercise contract and remedy rights" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "cancel-distance-contract", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/cancel-distance-contract", "sequenced": false, "title": "Cancel a distance contract" }, { "id": "challenge-unfair-contract-term", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/challenge-unfair-contract-term", "sequenced": false, "title": "Challenge an unfair contract term" }, { "id": "exercise-consumer-rights-for-goods", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/exercise-consumer-rights-for-goods", "sequenced": false, "title": "Exercise consumer rights for goods" }, { "id": "exercise-consumer-rights-for-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/exercise-consumer-rights-for-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Exercise consumer rights for services" }, { "id": "resolve-consumer-credit-dispute", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/resolve-consumer-credit-dispute", "sequenced": false, "title": "Resolve a consumer credit dispute" }, { "id": "seek-refund-repair-or-replacement", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/seek-refund-repair-or-replacement", "sequenced": false, "title": "Seek a refund, repair or replacement" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7c6d690435c61d2305401fe1", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/93646531feeee553d79d113f" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/exercise-digital-content-rights", "situations": [ "Paid or supplied digital content may be faulty, incompatible, misdescribed or damaging." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_digital_content_rights_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "exercise-digital-content-rights-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose software, establish trader identity, decide a remedy or assess consequential damage." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Competition and Markets Authority", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c24eb3cb0d09b6908466e48c", "resource_id": "resource:exercise-digital-content-rights:exercise-digital-content-rights-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/exercise-digital-content-rights-exercise-digital-content-rights-primary", "summary": "Routes consumers to current rights and advice covering goods, services and digital transactions.", "title": "Consumer rights", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_consumer_rights_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide whether goods, services, terms or credit breach a consumer's rights." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": 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"relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/490ca313e9dca5bb97faf464", "resource_id": "resource:exercise-digital-content-rights:consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/exercise-digital-content-rights-consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland consumer advice, complaints and enforcement.", "title": "Consumer rights in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Exercise digital content rights", "user_needs": [ "Distinguish digital content, services, goods and platform-provider responsibility." ] }, { "aliases": [ "submit tax return", "self assessment deadline" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": 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"primary_source": "file-self-assessment-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "file-self-assessment-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Register if required, keep source records, submit the return and retain calculation, payment and amendment outputs.", "domain": { "id": "money-tax-and-benefits", "route": "life-course-domain/money-tax-and-benefits", "title": "Money, tax and benefits" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person must or may need to submit a Self Assessment tax return.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Register if required, keep source records, submit the return and retain calculation, payment and amendment outputs.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f979d5e8d49f5c82f4895227", 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"organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3bfd42c84ba4af045e44d1cf", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bb1650d0147fac4c23017a33", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d6935459b8b8be0e5d05a7b8", "resource_route": "resource/file-self-assessment-file-self-assessment-primary", "source_id": "file-self-assessment-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/file-self-assessment-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "file-self-assessment-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to file self assessment and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Register if required, keep source records, submit the return and retain calculation, payment and amendment outputs." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8890c4895a8a9119ed17d95a", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/261654cdc026d3cae6b1b3f0", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e9290f38daec8070f2cd4a06", "resource_route": "resource/file-self-assessment-file-self-assessment-primary", "source_id": "file-self-assessment-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": 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"service-episode/file-self-assessment-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/adb8c11cf6e954c0ec72c1b4", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/20095ec049d3879581b88e7f", "resource_route": "resource/file-self-assessment-file-self-assessment-primary", "source_id": "file-self-assessment-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/file-self-assessment-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "file-self-assessment-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "file-self-assessment", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# File Self Assessment\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Manage personal tax and contributions** in the **Money, tax and benefits** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nRegister if required, keep source records, submit the return and retain calculation, payment and amendment outputs.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Self Assessment tax returns](https://www.gov.uk/self-assessment-tax-returns)\n- [Scotland: Self Assessment tax returns](https://www.gov.uk/self-assessment-tax-returns)\n- [Wales: Self Assessment tax returns](https://www.gov.uk/self-assessment-tax-returns)\n- [Northern Ireland: Self Assessment tax returns](https://www.gov.uk/self-assessment-tax-returns)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Manage personal tax and contributions**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Manage personal tax and contributions", "source": "services/file-self-assessment.md", "title": "File Self Assessment within Manage personal tax and contributions" }, "process": { "id": "manage-personal-tax-and-contributions", "route": "enclosing-process/manage-personal-tax-and-contributions", "title": "Manage personal tax and contributions" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-tax-refund", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-tax-refund", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim a tax refund" }, { "id": "get-national-insurance-record", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": 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"route": "resource/file-self-assessment-file-self-assessment-primary", "summary": "Provides current registration, return and payment handoffs.", "title": "Self Assessment tax returns", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/self-assessment-tax-returns" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "File Self Assessment", "user_needs": [ "Follow current registration, filing, payment and correction routes without tax advice from the bundle." ] }, { "aliases": [ "find a childminder", "search childcare providers" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "find-registered-childcare-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "find-registered-childcare-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": 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high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Find registered childcare\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Arrange childcare and early education** in the **Early years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nStart from the accountable public register or local service to find childcare providers and verify current registration.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Find a registered childminder](https://www.gov.uk/find-registered-childminder)\n- [Scotland: Help with childcare costs in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/childcare-costs-help)\n- [Wales: Childcare in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/childcare)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Arrange childcare and early education**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Arrange childcare and early education", "source": "services/find-registered-childcare.md", "title": "Find registered childcare within Arrange childcare and early education" }, "process": { "id": "arrange-childcare-and-early-education", "route": "enclosing-process/arrange-childcare-and-early-education", "title": "Arrange childcare and early education" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-childcare-cost-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-childcare-cost-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get childcare cost support" }, { "id": "get-funded-early-education", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-funded-early-education", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get funded early education" }, { "id": "register-as-childminder", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-as-childminder", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register as a childminder" }, { "id": "use-childrens-centres", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-childrens-centres", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use children's centres" }, { "id": "use-public-library-child-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-public-library-child-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use public library child services" }, { "id": "use-tax-free-childcare", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-tax-free-childcare", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use Tax-Free Childcare" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/23a0be2508089ca1a391c219", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/02f21b4ea8ec3b5139a395ab" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/find-registered-childcare", "situations": [ "A parent or carer needs to find childcare and check whether a provider is appropriately registered." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_registered_childminder_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "find-registered-childcare-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not recommend a provider, guarantee availability or establish another nation's registration system." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a6a6fb15aa9df55b85aa8df0", "resource_id": "resource:find-registered-childcare:find-registered-childcare-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/find-registered-childcare-find-registered-childcare-primary", "summary": "Routes families in England to current local and regulator-backed childminder searches.", "title": "Find a registered childminder", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/find-registered-childminder" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_childcare_support_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove a separate development, health, safeguarding, library or registration rule." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/35226b4516030e2670888121", "resource_id": "resource:find-registered-childcare:early-years-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/find-registered-childcare-early-years-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes families in Scotland to current funded childcare and childcare-cost support.", "title": "Help with childcare costs in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/childcare-costs-help" }, { "authority_role": "wales_childcare_and_early_years_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/aaa0b767920ea0d188cebaed", "resource_id": "resource:find-registered-childcare:early-years-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/find-registered-childcare-early-years-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes families and providers in Wales to current childcare and early-years information.", "title": "Childcare in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/childcare" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_early_years_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c0ea550ed77bb1add8616595", "resource_id": "resource:find-registered-childcare:early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/find-registered-childcare-early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Northern Ireland to current education, childcare and early-years services.", "title": "Education in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Find registered childcare", "user_needs": [ "Use the current national or local register without treating the bundle as a provider recommendation." ] }, { "aliases": [ "set up partnership", "register business partners", "partnership tax registration" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "form-business-partnership-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "form-business-partnership-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "form-business-partnership-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "form-business-partnership-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "form-business-partnership-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "form-business-partnership-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "form-business-partnership-primary", "provider": 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"state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "form-business-partnership", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Form a business partnership\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Form and register an organisation** in the **Starting and running an organisation** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nAgree the structure and responsibilities, nominate the responsible partner and complete registration, records and reporting steps.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Set up a business partnership](https://www.gov.uk/set-up-business-partnership)\n- [Scotland: Set up a business partnership](https://www.gov.uk/set-up-business-partnership)\n- [Wales: Set up a business partnership](https://www.gov.uk/set-up-business-partnership)\n- [Northern Ireland: Set up a business partnership](https://www.gov.uk/set-up-business-partnership)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Form and register an organisation**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Form and register an organisation", "source": "services/form-business-partnership.md", "title": "Form a business partnership within Form and register an organisation" }, "process": { "id": "form-and-register-an-organisation", "route": "enclosing-process/form-and-register-an-organisation", "title": "Form and register an organisation" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "establish-social-enterprise", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/establish-social-enterprise", "sequenced": false, "title": "Establish a social enterprise" }, { "id": "incorporate-company", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": 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and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Form a civil partnership\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Form, change and support family relationships** in the **Relationships and family change** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSelect the applicable registration route, give any required notice and complete the source-defined formation and registration steps.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Marriages and civil partnerships in England and Wales](https://www.gov.uk/marriages-civil-partnerships)\n- [Scotland: Births, deaths and family in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family)\n- [Wales: Marriages and civil partnerships in England and Wales](https://www.gov.uk/marriages-civil-partnerships)\n- [Northern Ireland: Find out your rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/find-out-your-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Form, change and support family relationships**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Form, change and support family relationships", "source": "services/form-civil-partnership.md", "title": "Form a civil partnership within Form, change and support family relationships" }, "process": { "id": "form-change-and-support-family-relationships", "route": "enclosing-process/form-change-and-support-family-relationships", "title": "Form, change and support family relationships" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "adopt-child", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/adopt-child", "sequenced": false, "title": "Adopt a child" }, { "id": "arrange-child-maintenance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-child-maintenance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange child maintenance" }, { "id": "change-name", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/change-name", "sequenced": false, "title": "Change name" }, { "id": "divorce-or-dissolve-partnership", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/divorce-or-dissolve-partnership", "sequenced": false, "title": "Divorce or dissolve a partnership" }, { "id": "marry", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/marry", "sequenced": false, "title": "Marry" }, { "id": "resolve-parental-responsibility", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/resolve-parental-responsibility", "sequenced": false, "title": "Resolve parental responsibility" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2f14179580d8d01caf23f9ed", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c742fd47348b846b512b8147" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/form-civil-partnership", "situations": [ "Two people intend to form a legally recognised civil partnership." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_civil_partnership_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "form-civil-partnership-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish Scotland or Northern Ireland procedure or decide an individual application." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "General Register Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/46b231edcf7bf4296b01be19", "resource_id": "resource:form-civil-partnership:form-civil-partnership-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/form-civil-partnership-form-civil-partnership-primary", "summary": "Introduces England and Wales notice, eligibility, ceremony and registration routes.", "title": "Marriages and civil partnerships in England and Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/marriages-civil-partnerships" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_family_change_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "family-change-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine status, legal rights, eligibility, safeguarding action or an individual court route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1ef535e40b78ec659cd457c6", "resource_id": "resource:form-civil-partnership:family-change-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/form-civil-partnership-family-change-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish marriage, civil partnership, family, care and representation information.", "title": "Births, deaths and family in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_family_change_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish the applicable court, safeguarding, care or representation route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4d1879bf1aedaa03b0f551f5", "resource_id": "resource:form-civil-partnership:family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/form-civil-partnership-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Introduces Northern Ireland marriage, civil partnership, separation, parental-responsibility, family-safety and wider rights handoffs.", "title": "Find out your rights in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/find-out-your-rights" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Form a civil partnership", "user_needs": [ "Identify the correct territorial rules, registrar and document route." ] }, { "aliases": [ "compare overseas degree", "UK academic equivalence statement" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-academic-qualification-recognised-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", 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}, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d416be8f3b6e2159240c1265", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4bf0506e709d2f17c1c8007b", "resource_route": "resource/get-academic-qualification-recognised-get-academic-qualification-recognised-primary", "source_id": "get-academic-qualification-recognised-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/860bca7430a5d42b46ce63c2", "resource_route": "resource/get-academic-qualification-recognised-post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f4dd5c102f7d989555ea1023", "resource_route": "resource/get-academic-qualification-recognised-post-school-study-wales-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/867be9268f663531fc4f6705", "resource_route": "resource/get-academic-qualification-recognised-post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-academic-qualification-recognised-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-academic-qualification-recognised-primary", "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-academic-qualification-recognised", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get an academic qualification recognised\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Conduct and recognise research and qualifications** in the **Further education, university and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the relying body's purpose and obtain the recognition evidence that its current route accepts.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: If your degree was taught or researched in English](https://www.gov.uk/english-language/degrees-in-english)\n- [Scotland: Further and higher education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Further and higher education in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Higher education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education/higher-education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Conduct and recognise research and qualifications**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Conduct and recognise research and qualifications", "source": "services/get-academic-qualification-recognised.md", "title": "Get an academic qualification recognised within Conduct and recognise research and qualifications" }, "process": { "id": "conduct-and-recognise-research-and-qualifications", "route": "enclosing-process/conduct-and-recognise-research-and-qualifications", "title": "Conduct and recognise research and qualifications" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "manage-university-intellectual-property", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/manage-university-intellectual-property", "sequenced": false, "title": "Manage university intellectual property" }, { "id": "obtain-research-ethics-approval", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-research-ethics-approval", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain research ethics approval" }, { "id": "seek-research-funding", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/seek-research-funding", "sequenced": false, "title": "Seek research funding" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6009d48c1b2920de3d4ca950", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/edfa0e6e2d66f1e334ede410" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-academic-qualification-recognised", "situations": [ "A person needs an overseas academic award compared with a UK qualification for a stated purpose." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_visa_and_nationality_degree_comparison_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-academic-qualification-recognised-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Recognition is purpose-specific; this route does not establish universal academic or professional equivalence." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Home Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fdaeaa1049a70a1c588398ae", "resource_id": "resource:get-academic-qualification-recognised:get-academic-qualification-recognised-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-academic-qualification-recognised-get-academic-qualification-recognised-primary", "summary": "Shows one official use case that hands overseas academic comparison to the recognised provider.", "title": "If your degree was taught or researched in English", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/english-language/degrees-in-english" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_post_school_study_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a course, funding, admission or research decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/85384c60b0c83ccc430539ec", "resource_id": "resource:get-academic-qualification-recognised:post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-academic-qualification-recognised-post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish college, university and student-support services.", "title": 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case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-access-to-work", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get Access to Work\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter fair and supported work** in the **Finding work and unemployment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nApply for employment-related disability support and coordinate the public decision with employer adjustments.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Access to Work](https://www.gov.uk/access-to-work)\n- [Scotland: Finding a job in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job)\n- [Wales: Employment support in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/employment-support)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter fair and supported work**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter fair and supported work", "source": "services/get-access-to-work.md", "title": "Get Access to Work within Enter fair and supported work" }, "process": { "id": "enter-fair-and-supported-work", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-fair-and-supported-work", "title": "Enter fair and supported work" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-disclosure-or-dbs-check", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-disclosure-or-dbs-check", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a disclosure or DBS check" }, { "id": "get-jobcentre-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-jobcentre-support", "sequenced": 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deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get a Blue Badge\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Obtain accessible and community mobility** in the **Public and private transport** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nApply through the applicable scheme, provide requested evidence and retain the decision, badge conditions and review route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Apply for or renew a Blue Badge](https://www.gov.uk/apply-blue-badge)\n- [Scotland: Transport and travel in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport)\n- [Wales: Transport in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/transport)\n- [Northern Ireland: Travel, transport and roads in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/travel-transport-and-roads)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Obtain accessible and community mobility**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Obtain accessible and community mobility", "source": "services/get-blue-badge.md", "title": "Get a Blue Badge within Obtain accessible and community mobility" }, "process": { "id": "obtain-accessible-and-community-mobility", "route": "enclosing-process/obtain-accessible-and-community-mobility", "title": "Obtain accessible and community mobility" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "license-taxi-or-private-hire", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/license-taxi-or-private-hire", "sequenced": false, "title": "License a taxi or private-hire service" }, { "id": "obtain-concessionary-travel", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-concessionary-travel", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain concessionary travel" }, { "id": "plan-accessible-public-transport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/plan-accessible-public-transport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Plan accessible public transport" }, { "id": "use-community-transport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-community-transport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use community transport" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7d9eb39713843d7bcb1da9ca", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/646281bf6d45019ae7765c1b" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-blue-badge", "situations": [ "A disabled person needs access to governed parking concessions." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_blue_badge_application", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-blue-badge-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess mobility, eligibility, parking availability, local restrictions or enforcement." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Transport", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b30eb2ccd0c969c4177d5c8a", "resource_id": "resource:get-blue-badge:get-blue-badge-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-blue-badge-get-blue-badge-primary", "summary": "Provides the England application locator and scheme information.", "title": "Apply for or renew a Blue Badge", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/apply-blue-badge" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England concession, permit or operator-licensing route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c23e997730d1e10fc3d91ee0", "resource_id": "resource:get-blue-badge:public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-blue-badge-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish public, accessible, local and road-transport services.", "title": "Transport and travel in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport" }, { "authority_role": "wales_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", 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"resource/get-careers-advice-transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5b792de8198635d433f6fa5d", "resource_route": "resource/get-careers-advice-transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-careers-advice-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-careers-advice-primary", "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-careers-advice", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get careers advice\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish adult work, civic and identity records** in the **Transition to adulthood** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind impartial careers information and an adviser route for education, training or work choices.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Careers helpline for teenagers](https://www.gov.uk/careers-helpline-for-teenagers)\n- [Scotland: Education and training in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Young people in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish adult work, civic and identity records**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish adult work, civic and identity records", "source": "services/get-careers-advice.md", "title": "Get careers advice within Establish adult work, civic and identity records" }, "process": { "id": "establish-adult-work-civic-and-identity-records", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-adult-work-civic-and-identity-records", "title": "Establish adult work, civic and identity records" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain proof of age or identity" }, { "id": "receive-national-insurance-number", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-national-insurance-number", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive a National Insurance number" }, { "id": "register-to-vote-for-first-time", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-to-vote-for-first-time", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register to vote for the first time" }, { "id": "start-apprenticeship", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-apprenticeship", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start an apprenticeship" }, { "id": "start-first-job", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-first-job", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start a first job" }, { "id": "verify-qualifications", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/verify-qualifications", "sequenced": false, "title": "Verify qualifications" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2b0f553d4d2c1326005584c8", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c10a3d388953d1868266e4e4" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-careers-advice", "situations": [ "A young person wants help comparing future study, training and work routes." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_young_people_careers_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-careers-advice-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not choose a course, occupation or employer for the user." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f8bd4b33efd18f998fb2af55", "resource_id": "resource:get-careers-advice:get-careers-advice-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-careers-advice-get-careers-advice-primary", "summary": "Provides the England public careers-information and adviser handoff for teenagers.", "title": "Careers helpline for teenagers", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/careers-helpline-for-teenagers" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9aa9d1ecfc4c00b74a1017b6", "resource_id": "resource:get-careers-advice:transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-careers-advice-transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish education, training and transition services.", "title": "Education and training in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b8d80bbcd52f933842a05f77", "resource_id": "resource:get-careers-advice:transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-careers-advice-transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh learning, skills and transition services.", "title": "Education and skills in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/education-skills" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bae376c77025497485ba1c9b", "resource_id": "resource:get-careers-advice:transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-careers-advice-transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes young people to current Northern Ireland services and responsibilities.", "title": "Young people in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Get careers advice", "user_needs": [ "Reach the appropriate public careers service without treating guidance as a guaranteed outcome." ] }, { "aliases": [ "support for older unpaid carer", "carers assessment retirement", "respite help for carer" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-carer-support-in-later-life-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ 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"organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/811efca5ec22e27597e00aaf", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9df799a5c267fee777e89c00", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3ac26b825a2b07d65de6697f", "resource_route": "resource/get-carer-support-in-later-life-get-carer-support-in-later-life-primary", "source_id": "get-carer-support-in-later-life-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2c4e5081743560793e46345a", "resource_route": "resource/get-carer-support-in-later-life-later-life-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "later-life-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": 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"resource/get-carer-support-in-later-life-later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-carer-support-in-later-life-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-carer-support-in-later-life-primary", "later-life-scotland-handoff", "later-life-wales-handoff", "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-carer-support-in-later-life", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get carer support in later life\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Arrange later-life care and future decisions** in the **Later life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the unpaid caring role, request the applicable carer's assessment and use benefit, respite, health and emergency-planning routes.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Support and benefits for carers](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/social-care-and-support-guide/support-and-benefits-for-carers/)\n- [Scotland: Benefits in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/benefits)\n- [Wales: Social care in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/social-care)\n- [Northern Ireland: Pensions and retirement planning](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/pensions-and-retirement-planning)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Arrange later-life care and future decisions**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Arrange later-life care and future decisions", "source": "services/get-carer-support-in-later-life.md", "title": "Get carer support in later life within Arrange later-life care and future decisions" }, "process": { "id": "arrange-later-life-care-and-future-decisions", "route": "enclosing-process/arrange-later-life-care-and-future-decisions", "title": "Arrange later-life care and future decisions" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access palliative or end-of-life care" }, { "id": "get-housing-adaptation-in-later-life", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-housing-adaptation-in-later-life", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a housing adaptation in later life" }, { "id": "get-social-care-in-later-life", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-social-care-in-later-life", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get social care in later life" }, { "id": "make-advance-care-plan", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/make-advance-care-plan", "sequenced": false, "title": "Make an advance care plan" }, { "id": "make-lasting-power-of-attorney", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/make-lasting-power-of-attorney", "sequenced": false, "title": "Make a lasting power of attorney" }, { "id": "make-will", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/make-will", "sequenced": false, "title": "Make a will" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b5ded7712c9f9f3d86152ca1", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f674e6890e85e99a9177fc3c" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-carer-support-in-later-life", "situations": [ "An older person provides unpaid care or is cared for by an unpaid family member or friend." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_carer_support_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-carer-support-in-later-life-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish devolved provision, decide eligibility, assess needs or arrange emergency care." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/77430f50582bf020ca860054", "resource_id": 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7c0921aa0f75fc5a41e49eb4", "resource_id": "resource:get-carer-support-in-later-life:later-life-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-carer-support-in-later-life-later-life-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh social-care policy, support and service information.", "title": "Social care in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/social-care" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_retirement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide pension entitlement, care, health or legal-planning needs." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": 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"northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Ask the responsible social-care body to assess the unpaid carer's needs and use the resulting support, review or complaint route.", "domain": { "id": "disability-care-and-support", "route": "life-course-domain/disability-care-and-support", "title": "Disability, care and support" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "An unpaid carer needs their own practical, wellbeing or participation needs assessed.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Ask the responsible social-care body to assess the unpaid carer's needs and use the resulting support, review or complaint route.", 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"state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ce9fc611cbad9fce994e13d1", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6942abade737a3f40ce972d7", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/621c84e6b333c4a709a9b7b3", "resource_route": "resource/get-carers-assessment-get-carers-assessment-primary", "source_id": "get-carers-assessment-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d6e87df6bd419e407827eb37", "resource_route": "resource/get-carers-assessment-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff" }, { 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"organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5a5ab0424dcd015ec11b252c", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9c3ae2145cbb87d9e3cedef3", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3e80ca52a5188442439e0b2c", "resource_route": "resource/get-carers-assessment-get-carers-assessment-primary", "source_id": "get-carers-assessment-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b81bf6f897fe9a4b032b3d75", "resource_route": "resource/get-carers-assessment-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": 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"disability-care-wales-handoff", "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3b2a5ca597a8f51c3c4adcb0", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/66a8cb87ed0800fbeebcc7bd" }, "route": "service-episode/get-carers-assessment-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2ce84022be350502ca697d59", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a7c74c12e058c62df5db937e", "resource_route": "resource/get-carers-assessment-get-carers-assessment-primary", "source_id": "get-carers-assessment-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d1f770353b2b76fc87d79006", "resource_route": "resource/get-carers-assessment-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/57a4d784c54452a1b879a6da", "resource_route": "resource/get-carers-assessment-disability-care-wales-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dc5e05778986fb2aaa7d9abb", "resource_route": "resource/get-carers-assessment-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-carers-assessment-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-carers-assessment-primary", "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "disability-care-wales-handoff", "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-carers-assessment", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get a carer's assessment\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Assess and deliver disability and care support** in the **Disability, care and support** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nAsk the responsible social-care body to assess the unpaid carer's needs and use the resulting support, review or complaint route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Carer's assessments](https://www.nhs.uk/social-care-and-support/support-and-benefits-for-carers/carer-assessments/)\n- [Scotland: Health and social care in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/health-social-care)\n- [Wales: Social care in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/social-care)\n- [Northern Ireland: Caring for someone in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/caring-someone)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Assess and deliver disability and care support**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Assess and deliver disability and care support", "source": "services/get-carers-assessment.md", "title": "Get a carer's assessment within Assess and deliver disability and care support" }, "process": { "id": "assess-and-deliver-disability-and-care-support", "route": "enclosing-process/assess-and-deliver-disability-and-care-support", "title": "Assess and deliver disability and care support" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-disability-living-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-disability-living-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim disability living support" }, { "id": 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"linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-carers-assessment-disability-care-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh social-care policy and applicable local service information.", "title": "Social care in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/social-care" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify every trust service or decide eligibility, capacity or safeguarding action." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/120f9c822532eae1789b33ff", "resource_id": "resource:get-carers-assessment:disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-carers-assessment-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland carer, disability, benefit and care information.", "title": "Caring for someone in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/caring-someone" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Get a carer's assessment", "user_needs": [ "Separate the carer's assessment from the cared-for person's needs and benefit decisions." ] }, { "aliases": [ "help paying for childcare", "childcare benefits and schemes" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-childcare-cost-support-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "get-childcare-cost-support-primary" ], "state": 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legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get childcare cost support\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Arrange childcare and early education** in the **Early years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCompare the current official childcare-cost support routes and continue to the applicable claim or account.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Help with childcare costs](https://www.gov.uk/help-with-childcare-costs)\n- [Scotland: Help with childcare costs](https://www.gov.uk/help-with-childcare-costs)\n- [Wales: Help with childcare costs](https://www.gov.uk/help-with-childcare-costs)\n- [Northern Ireland: Help with childcare costs](https://www.gov.uk/help-with-childcare-costs)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Arrange childcare and early education**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Arrange childcare and early education", "source": "services/get-childcare-cost-support.md", "title": "Get childcare cost support within Arrange childcare and early education" }, "process": { "id": "arrange-childcare-and-early-education", "route": "enclosing-process/arrange-childcare-and-early-education", "title": "Arrange childcare and early education" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "find-registered-childcare", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/find-registered-childcare", "sequenced": false, "title": "Find registered childcare" }, { "id": "get-funded-early-education", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", 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"service-episode/get-consular-assistance-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d2cea89f4e140c64cbd4cbc8", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f9b84adf99838f7342b2371f", "resource_route": "resource/get-consular-assistance-get-consular-assistance-primary", "source_id": "get-consular-assistance-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-consular-assistance-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-consular-assistance-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-consular-assistance", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get consular assistance\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Live, work and get help overseas** in the **Holidays, volunteering and living overseas** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nLocate the responsible British embassy, high commission or consulate and use its published emergency or routine assistance route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Find a British embassy, high commission or consulate](https://www.gov.uk/world/embassies)\n- [Scotland: Find a British embassy, high commission or consulate](https://www.gov.uk/world/embassies)\n- [Wales: Find a British embassy, high commission or consulate](https://www.gov.uk/world/embassies)\n- [Northern Ireland: Find a British embassy, high commission or consulate](https://www.gov.uk/world/embassies)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Live, work and get help overseas**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Live, work and get help overseas", "source": "services/get-consular-assistance.md", "title": "Get consular assistance within Live, work and get help overseas" }, "process": { "id": "live-work-and-get-help-overseas", "route": "enclosing-process/live-work-and-get-help-overseas", "title": "Live, work and get help overseas" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get help after a serious incident abroad" }, { "id": "manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad", "sequenced": false, "title": "Manage tax, National Insurance, benefits and pensions abroad" }, { "id": "obtain-emergency-travel-document", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-emergency-travel-document", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain an emergency travel document" }, { "id": "study-or-volunteer-overseas", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/study-or-volunteer-overseas", "sequenced": false, "title": "Study or volunteer overseas" }, { "id": "work-overseas", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/work-overseas", "sequenced": false, "title": "Work overseas" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/09f75570af636d878f20f93d", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f5fb15547b68c5bdbddf5825" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-consular-assistance", "situations": [ "A British national abroad needs information or help that may fall within consular support." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_consular_post_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-consular-assistance-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not guarantee assistance, override local law, pay private costs or replace emergency services." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/886b3a20892ec96834c93d70", "resource_id": "resource:get-consular-assistance:get-consular-assistance-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-consular-assistance-get-consular-assistance-primary", "summary": "Locates current UK diplomatic and consular posts and their contact routes.", "title": "Find a British embassy, high commission or consulate", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/world/embassies" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Get consular assistance", "user_needs": [ "Understand the consular assistance boundary without assuming the government can compel local authorities or pay costs." ] }, { "aliases": [ "help with debts", "debt management options" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-debt-advice-and-relief-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "get-debt-advice-and-relief-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-debt-advice-and-relief-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "get-debt-advice-and-relief-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-debt-advice-and-relief-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "get-debt-advice-and-relief-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-debt-advice-and-relief-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "get-debt-advice-and-relief-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Use free or regulated advice to compare formal and informal debt solutions before committing.", "domain": { "id": "money-tax-and-benefits", "route": "life-course-domain/money-tax-and-benefits", "title": "Money, tax and benefits" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person cannot meet debts or needs a sustainable repayment or relief route.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Use free or regulated advice to compare formal and informal debt solutions before committing.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9a59b62f113c6045474ad8b8", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2abd698b544aef21b8940328" }, "route": "service-episode/get-debt-advice-and-relief-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2f265b979b5b980ad19553c4", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ccbc61473bdf59a07faa10d0", "resource_route": "resource/get-debt-advice-and-relief-get-debt-advice-and-relief-primary", "source_id": "get-debt-advice-and-relief-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-debt-advice-and-relief-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "get-debt-advice-and-relief-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/34d6e5ffef4f49ad9f26bb4a", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c33e0271e8d641984b167c08", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5a704285ef7cb98b37a1b470", "resource_route": "resource/get-debt-advice-and-relief-get-debt-advice-and-relief-primary", "source_id": "get-debt-advice-and-relief-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/get-debt-advice-and-relief-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "get-debt-advice-and-relief-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/21d424135756f66ee778d124", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/30b46270a42cd5ec594b7cc7" }, "route": "service-episode/get-debt-advice-and-relief-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c2ca00dbbe3a353e12d80b8f", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3989844aeef32381efd7410d", "resource_route": "resource/get-debt-advice-and-relief-get-debt-advice-and-relief-primary", "source_id": "get-debt-advice-and-relief-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-debt-advice-and-relief-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-debt-advice-and-relief-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-debt-advice-and-relief", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get debt advice and relief\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Claim support and resolve debt** in the **Money, tax and benefits** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse free or regulated advice to compare formal and informal debt solutions before committing.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Options for dealing with your debts](https://www.gov.uk/options-for-dealing-with-your-debts)\n- [Scotland: Options for dealing with your debts](https://www.gov.uk/options-for-dealing-with-your-debts)\n- [Wales: Options for dealing with your debts](https://www.gov.uk/options-for-dealing-with-your-debts)\n- [Northern Ireland: Options for dealing with your debts](https://www.gov.uk/options-for-dealing-with-your-debts)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Claim support and resolve debt**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Claim support and resolve debt", "source": "services/get-debt-advice-and-relief.md", "title": "Get debt advice and relief within Claim support and resolve debt" }, "process": { "id": "claim-support-and-resolve-debt", "route": "enclosing-process/claim-support-and-resolve-debt", "title": "Claim support and resolve debt" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-disability-benefit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-disability-benefit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim a disability benefit" }, { "id": "claim-universal-credit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-universal-credit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Universal Credit" }, { "id": "enter-personal-insolvency", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/enter-personal-insolvency", "sequenced": false, "title": "Enter personal insolvency" }, { "id": "report-benefit-change-of-circumstances", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-benefit-change-of-circumstances", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a benefit change of circumstances" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/267f84824ad30c9b3f9fa8e8", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/da8eeeb1b50d9c8d48cb3d3c" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-debt-advice-and-relief", "situations": [ "A person cannot meet debts or needs a sustainable repayment or relief route." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": 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} ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Get debt advice and relief", "user_needs": [ "Start with public options and regulated advice rather than provider marketing." ] }, { "aliases": [ "disabled facilities grant", "adapt home for disability", "home accessibility grant" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-disability-home-adaptation-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "get-disability-home-adaptation-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "disability-care-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { 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"source_ids": [ "get-disability-home-adaptation-primary", "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "disability-care-wales-handoff", "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-disability-home-adaptation", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get a disability home adaptation\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Assess and deliver disability and care support** in the **Disability, care and support** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nAsk for the relevant needs and home assessment, then use the responsible housing or social-care body's grant, permission and works route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Disabled Facilities Grants](https://www.gov.uk/disabled-facilities-grants)\n- [Scotland: Health and social care in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/health-social-care)\n- [Wales: Social care in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/social-care)\n- [Northern Ireland: Caring for someone in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/caring-someone)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Assess and deliver disability and care support**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Assess and deliver disability and care support", "source": "services/get-disability-home-adaptation.md", "title": "Get a disability home adaptation within Assess and deliver disability and care support" }, "process": { "id": "assess-and-deliver-disability-and-care-support", "route": "enclosing-process/assess-and-deliver-disability-and-care-support", "title": "Assess and deliver disability and care support" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-disability-living-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-disability-living-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim disability living support" }, { "id": "get-carers-assessment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-carers-assessment", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a carer's assessment" }, { "id": "get-residential-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-residential-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get residential care" }, { "id": "get-social-care-needs-assessment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-social-care-needs-assessment", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a social-care needs assessment" }, { "id": "receive-direct-payments", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-direct-payments", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive direct payments" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/19db3028aa7df0f77c1cc428", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/aac4a075cec7358421a3e7c6" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-disability-home-adaptation", "situations": [ "A disabled person needs changes to make a home safer, accessible or usable." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_home_adaptation_grant_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-disability-home-adaptation-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess need, award a grant, obtain landlord or planning consent, or establish devolved equivalents." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d8b0a8768a5d97e8ffe3aaed", "resource_id": "resource:get-disability-home-adaptation:get-disability-home-adaptation-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-disability-home-adaptation-get-disability-home-adaptation-primary", "summary": "Introduces England and Wales council Disabled Facilities Grant eligibility and application handoffs.", "title": "Disabled Facilities Grants", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/disabled-facilities-grants" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine eligibility, local provision, capacity, safeguarding action or redress." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d8002fa693fc3c5dd1e4c950", "resource_id": "resource:get-disability-home-adaptation:disability-care-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": 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"organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/eba7b157a8109ec68b11c832", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d615a8a244e4a2ee7de0f609", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2525d6a6ca03fd7b9d4cf86e", "resource_route": "resource/get-disabled-students-allowance-get-disabled-students-allowance-primary", "source_id": "get-disabled-students-allowance-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f7d5fcebb4a3024b64a26e02", "resource_route": "resource/get-disabled-students-allowance-post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": 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"get-disabled-students-allowance-primary", "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/eb1e60e716519aff4325e852", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e4c8e6bc7fc4a213dfd7d7aa" }, "route": "service-episode/get-disabled-students-allowance-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b9ece8b36db52c2e18aae639", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/755ef040ad8829cecb71d144", "resource_route": "resource/get-disabled-students-allowance-get-disabled-students-allowance-primary", "source_id": "get-disabled-students-allowance-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9c0a0ffa3377e386e76803b6", "resource_route": "resource/get-disabled-students-allowance-post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b11dc6eb305a9e07ec384c74", "resource_route": "resource/get-disabled-students-allowance-post-school-study-wales-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4c6d5775d5c88be2b0be0aca", "resource_route": "resource/get-disabled-students-allowance-post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-disabled-students-allowance-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-disabled-students-allowance-primary", "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-disabled-students-allowance", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get Disabled Students' Allowance\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter and fund post-school study** in the **Further education, university and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nApply for disability-related study support and complete any source-required needs assessment.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Disabled Students' Allowance](https://www.gov.uk/disabled-students-allowance-dsa)\n- [Scotland: Further and higher education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Further and higher education in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Higher education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education/higher-education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter and fund post-school study**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter and fund post-school study", "source": "services/get-disabled-students-allowance.md", "title": "Get Disabled Students' Allowance within Enter and fund post-school study" }, "process": { "id": "enter-and-fund-post-school-study", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-and-fund-post-school-study", "title": "Enter and fund post-school study" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-adult-skills-training", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-adult-skills-training", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access adult skills training" }, { "id": "apply-for-further-education-course", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-further-education-course", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for a further education course" }, { "id": "apply-to-university", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-to-university", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply to university" }, { "id": "arrange-student-accommodation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-student-accommodation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange student accommodation" }, { "id": "claim-student-council-tax-disregard", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-student-council-tax-disregard", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim a student council tax disregard" }, { "id": "get-student-finance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-student-finance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get student finance" }, { "id": "register-with-health-services-as-student", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-with-health-services-as-student", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register with health services as a student" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/47b73824ce126aa68fa9908b", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7ef46eada6971bc2136142f8" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-disabled-students-allowance", "situations": [ "A higher-education student may need additional support because of disability or health condition." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_disabled_students_allowance_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-disabled-students-allowance-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, decide eligibility, recommend suppliers or award support." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/95d55302f65b1ca130cedf0c", "resource_id": "resource:get-disabled-students-allowance:get-disabled-students-allowance-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-disabled-students-allowance-get-disabled-students-allowance-primary", "summary": "Explains the England DSA application, assessment and support boundary.", "title": "Disabled Students' Allowance", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/disabled-students-allowance-dsa" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_post_school_study_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a course, funding, admission or research decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/29b93ac4979790b40ace1426", "resource_id": "resource:get-disabled-students-allowance:post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-disabled-students-allowance-post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish college, university and student-support services.", "title": "Further and higher education in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_post_school_study_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a course, funding, admission or research decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a7ccb5a57c6619145015e402", "resource_id": "resource:get-disabled-students-allowance:post-school-study-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-disabled-students-allowance-post-school-study-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh further- and higher-education services and policy.", "title": "Further and higher education in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/education-skills" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_post_school_study_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a course, funding, admission or research decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/80a3de10316ac2561328bbb4", "resource_id": "resource:get-disabled-students-allowance:post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-disabled-students-allowance-post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland higher-education and student-support services.", "title": "Higher education in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education/higher-education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Get Disabled Students' Allowance", "user_needs": [ "Find the correct finance body, evidence boundary, assessment and review route." ] }, { "aliases": [ "criminal record check for work", "basic DBS certificate" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", 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"jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Select the correct criminal-record disclosure route for the role and obtain or share its official output.", "domain": { "id": "finding-work-and-unemployment", "route": "life-course-domain/finding-work-and-unemployment", "title": "Finding work and unemployment" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A worker", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Select the correct criminal-record disclosure route for the role and obtain or share its official output.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fccb4ac0fd20fef8cd304932", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c7bec7e82ede7701b989452c" }, "route": "service-episode/get-disclosure-or-dbs-check-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current 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"supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-disclosure-or-dbs-check-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-disclosure-or-dbs-check-primary", "finding-work-scotland-handoff", "finding-work-wales-handoff", "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-disclosure-or-dbs-check", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get a disclosure or DBS check\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter fair and supported work** in the **Finding work and unemployment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSelect the correct criminal-record disclosure route for the role and obtain or share its official output.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Request a basic DBS check](https://www.gov.uk/request-copy-criminal-record)\n- [Scotland: Finding a job in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job)\n- [Wales: Employment support in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/employment-support)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter fair and supported work**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter fair and supported work", "source": "services/get-disclosure-or-dbs-check.md", "title": "Get a disclosure or DBS check within Enter fair and supported work" }, "process": { "id": "enter-fair-and-supported-work", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-fair-and-supported-work", "title": "Enter fair and supported work" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-access-to-work", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-access-to-work", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Access to Work" }, { "id": "get-jobcentre-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-jobcentre-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Jobcentre support" }, { "id": "prove-right-to-work", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/prove-right-to-work", "sequenced": false, "title": "Prove the right to work" }, { "id": "resolve-recruitment-discrimination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/resolve-recruitment-discrimination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Resolve recruitment discrimination" }, { "id": "start-work-based-apprenticeship", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-work-based-apprenticeship", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start a work-based apprenticeship" }, { "id": "use-public-job-search", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-public-job-search", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use public job search" }, { "id": "volunteer-in-the-uk", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/volunteer-in-the-uk", "sequenced": false, "title": "Volunteer in the UK" } ], 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"Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get domestic abuse support\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Obtain family protection, representation and care** in the **Relationships and family change** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse emergency services for immediate danger and a current specialist route for safety, accommodation, legal protection and ongoing support.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Domestic abuse how to get help](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/domestic-abuse-how-to-get-help)\n- [Scotland: Births, deaths and family in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family)\n- [Wales: Domestic abuse how to get help](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/domestic-abuse-how-to-get-help)\n- [Northern Ireland: Find out your rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/find-out-your-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Obtain family protection, representation and care**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Obtain family protection, representation and care", "source": "services/get-domestic-abuse-support.md", "title": "Get domestic abuse support within Obtain family protection, representation and care" }, "process": { "id": "obtain-family-protection-representation-and-care", "route": "enclosing-process/obtain-family-protection-representation-and-care", "title": "Obtain family protection, representation and care" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-deputyship", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-deputyship", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for deputyship" }, { "id": "get-family-carer-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-family-carer-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get family carer support" }, { "id": "register-lasting-power-of-attorney", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-lasting-power-of-attorney", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register lasting power of attorney" }, { "id": "use-family-court", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-family-court", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a family court" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dce0a0a1cd5e82e947223c41", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/745bc7b5877fd65f72f6e92d" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-domestic-abuse-support", "situations": [ "A person may be experiencing domestic abuse or supporting someone at risk." ], 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"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/domestic-abuse-how-to-get-help" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_family_change_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "family-change-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine status, legal rights, eligibility, safeguarding action or an individual court route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d8fdac9c18c54cd3552e8e80", "resource_id": "resource:get-domestic-abuse-support:family-change-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-domestic-abuse-support-family-change-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish marriage, civil partnership, family, care and representation information.", "title": "Births, deaths and 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is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get early-years development support\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Support early development and safety** in the **Early years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNavigate routine development information into the current health, early-years or specialist assessment route when concerns arise.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Baby's development](https://www.nhs.uk/baby/babys-development/)\n- [Scotland: Help with childcare costs in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/childcare-costs-help)\n- [Wales: Childcare in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/childcare)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Support early development and safety**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Support early development and safety", "source": "services/get-early-years-development-support.md", "title": "Get early-years development support within Support early development and safety" }, "process": { "id": "support-early-development-and-safety", "route": "enclosing-process/support-early-development-and-safety", "title": "Support early development and safety" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-health-visiting", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-health-visiting", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access health visiting" }, { "id": "apply-for-adoption-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-adoption-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for adoption support" }, { "id": "get-early-years-send-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-early-years-send-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get early-years SEND support" }, { "id": "report-child-safeguarding-concern", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-child-safeguarding-concern", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a child safeguarding concern" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/107bbcca46fa034421f7da5e", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/beea5179e65ab8db037d7757" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-early-years-development-support", "situations": [ "A parent, carer or practitioner wants support with a young child's development." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_early_child_development_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-early-years-development-support-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess development, diagnose a condition, decide support or establish another nation's pathway." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/22045895e9c3f099d9a37258", "resource_id": "resource:get-early-years-development-support:get-early-years-development-support-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-early-years-development-support-get-early-years-development-support-primary", "summary": "Provides England NHS development information and routes concerns toward current child-health services.", "title": "Baby's development", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/baby/babys-development/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_childcare_support_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove a separate development, health, safeguarding, library or registration rule." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0f037c665b93547821a79911", "resource_id": "resource:get-early-years-development-support:early-years-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-early-years-development-support-early-years-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes families in Scotland to current funded childcare and childcare-cost support.", "title": "Help with childcare costs in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/childcare-costs-help" }, { "authority_role": "wales_childcare_and_early_years_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f254a3bf80e7caf30862dd23", "resource_id": "resource:get-early-years-development-support:early-years-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-early-years-development-support-early-years-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes families and providers in Wales to current childcare and early-years information.", "title": "Childcare in Wales", "url": 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"body": "# Get early-years SEND support\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Support early development and safety** in the **Early years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind the early-years setting, local-authority and assessment routes for special educational needs or disability support.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Extra help in education for children with special educational needs](https://www.gov.uk/children-with-special-educational-needs/extra-SEN-help)\n- [Scotland: Help with childcare costs in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/childcare-costs-help)\n- [Wales: Childcare in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/childcare)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Support early development and safety**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Support early development and safety", "source": "services/get-early-years-send-support.md", "title": "Get early-years SEND support within Support early development and safety" }, "process": { "id": "support-early-development-and-safety", "route": "enclosing-process/support-early-development-and-safety", "title": "Support early development and safety" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-health-visiting", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-health-visiting", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access health visiting" }, { "id": "apply-for-adoption-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-adoption-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for adoption support" }, { "id": "get-early-years-development-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-early-years-development-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get early-years development support" }, { "id": "report-child-safeguarding-concern", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-child-safeguarding-concern", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a child safeguarding concern" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5e9ff8d62b9647f15ac8a13d", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6aa11bd06e71bf154981178d" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-early-years-send-support", "situations": [ "A young child may need additional educational support before or during early education." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_send_support_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-early-years-send-support-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess need, allocate support, decide a plan, diagnose disability or establish another nation's system." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c8ce32982e16b2002ccc64fb", "resource_id": "resource:get-early-years-send-support:get-early-years-send-support-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-early-years-send-support-get-early-years-send-support-primary", "summary": "Introduces England education support and assessment handoffs for children with special educational needs.", "title": "Extra help in education for children with special educational needs", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/children-with-special-educational-needs/extra-SEN-help" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_childcare_support_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove a separate development, health, safeguarding, library or registration rule." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/563febf97e155733cbf89da3", "resource_id": "resource:get-early-years-send-support:early-years-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-early-years-send-support-early-years-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes families in Scotland to current funded childcare and childcare-cost support.", "title": "Help with childcare costs in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/childcare-costs-help" }, { "authority_role": "wales_childcare_and_early_years_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cdb0d3f99eb6977403670d41", "resource_id": "resource:get-early-years-send-support:early-years-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-early-years-send-support-early-years-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes families and providers in Wales to current childcare and early-years information.", "title": "Childcare in 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"Education in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Get early-years SEND support", "user_needs": [ "Understand the current setting and local-authority handoffs, decisions and challenge routes." ] }, { "aliases": [ "help for unpaid family carer", "carers support", "carer benefits and respite" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-family-carer-support-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "get-family-carer-support-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "family-change-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": 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"service-step/get-family-carer-support-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-family-carer-support-primary", "family-change-scotland-handoff", "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-family-carer-support", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get family carer support\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Obtain family protection, representation and care** in the **Relationships and family change** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nAsk the responsible health or social-care body for a carer assessment and use the current support, benefits, respite and complaint routes that apply.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Support and benefits for carers](https://www.nhs.uk/social-care-and-support/support-and-benefits-for-carers/)\n- [Scotland: Births, deaths and family in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family)\n- [Wales: Support and benefits for carers](https://www.nhs.uk/social-care-and-support/support-and-benefits-for-carers/)\n- [Northern Ireland: Find out your rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/find-out-your-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Obtain family protection, representation and care**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Obtain family protection, representation and care", "source": "services/get-family-carer-support.md", "title": "Get family carer support within Obtain family protection, representation and care" }, "process": { "id": "obtain-family-protection-representation-and-care", "route": "enclosing-process/obtain-family-protection-representation-and-care", "title": "Obtain family protection, representation and care" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-deputyship", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-deputyship", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for deputyship" }, { "id": "get-domestic-abuse-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-domestic-abuse-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get domestic abuse support" }, { "id": "register-lasting-power-of-attorney", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-lasting-power-of-attorney", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register lasting power of attorney" }, { "id": "use-family-court", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-family-court", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a family court" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a2bbe14c862feb60155c88f7", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d6dc4a4dfa1f69253f0484f1" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-family-carer-support", "situations": [ "A relative or friend provides unpaid care and needs practical, financial or 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"https://www.nhs.uk/social-care-and-support/support-and-benefits-for-carers/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_family_change_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "family-change-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine status, legal rights, eligibility, safeguarding action or an individual court route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/18d87f9152b12ceecce8a768", "resource_id": "resource:get-family-carer-support:family-change-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-family-carer-support-family-change-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish marriage, civil partnership, family, care and representation information.", "title": "Births, 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current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/get-funded-early-education-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "get-funded-early-education-primary", "early-years-scotland-handoff", "early-years-wales-handoff", "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": 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{ "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/94e4b63dd674c15192e308f1", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ee6c420b815d7ede84f1fe47", "resource_route": "resource/get-funded-early-education-get-funded-early-education-primary", "source_id": "get-funded-early-education-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/00d6c05c74b100394a25c757", "resource_route": "resource/get-funded-early-education-early-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/26bc48d205b3b8c43ba85834", "resource_route": "resource/get-funded-early-education-early-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/df5875e4681ee7a7ab6fa863", "resource_route": "resource/get-funded-early-education-early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-funded-early-education-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-funded-early-education-primary", "early-years-scotland-handoff", "early-years-wales-handoff", "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-funded-early-education", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get funded early education\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Arrange childcare and early education** in the **Early years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind and use the current nation and local-authority route for funded early education or childcare hours.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Free Childcare for Working Parents](https://www.gov.uk/free-childcare-if-working)\n- [Scotland: Help with childcare costs in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/childcare-costs-help)\n- [Wales: Childcare in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/childcare)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Arrange childcare and early education**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Arrange childcare and early education", "source": "services/get-funded-early-education.md", "title": "Get funded early education within Arrange childcare and early education" }, "process": { "id": "arrange-childcare-and-early-education", "route": "enclosing-process/arrange-childcare-and-early-education", "title": "Arrange childcare and early education" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "find-registered-childcare", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/find-registered-childcare", "sequenced": false, "title": "Find registered childcare" }, { "id": "get-childcare-cost-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-childcare-cost-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get childcare cost support" }, { "id": "register-as-childminder", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-as-childminder", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register as a childminder" }, { "id": "use-childrens-centres", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-childrens-centres", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use children's centres" }, { "id": "use-public-library-child-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-public-library-child-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use public library child services" }, { "id": "use-tax-free-childcare", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-tax-free-childcare", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use Tax-Free Childcare" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c2a64604e91ba40735176197", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/04eb1a2af60fc1b45079ff4d" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-funded-early-education", "situations": [ "A family wants to check and arrange a funded early-education or childcare place." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_working_parent_childcare_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-funded-early-education-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not calculate eligibility, guarantee a place, select a provider or establish another nation's offer." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5c4de0c422783d12c879ca09", "resource_id": "resource:get-funded-early-education:get-funded-early-education-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-funded-early-education-get-funded-early-education-primary", "summary": "Routes eligible working parents in England through the current funded-childcare application and provider handoff.", "title": "Free Childcare for Working Parents", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/free-childcare-if-working" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_childcare_support_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove a separate development, health, safeguarding, library or registration rule." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/94f03f2d18f34711c18420ac", "resource_id": "resource:get-funded-early-education:early-years-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-funded-early-education-early-years-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes families in Scotland to current funded childcare and childcare-cost support.", "title": "Help with childcare costs in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/childcare-costs-help" }, { "authority_role": "wales_childcare_and_early_years_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/15bcdb355e3e5f9aa44ac327", "resource_id": "resource:get-funded-early-education:early-years-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-funded-early-education-early-years-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes families and providers in Wales to current childcare and early-years information.", "title": "Childcare in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/childcare" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_early_years_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/eb44160791ef93852139923e", "resource_id": "resource:get-funded-early-education:early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-funded-early-education-early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Northern Ireland to current education, childcare and early-years services.", "title": "Education in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Get funded early education", "user_needs": [ "Find the current offer, provider requirements, application and exception route without calculating eligibility locally." ] }, { "aliases": [ "Healthy Start card", "help to buy healthy food and vitamins" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-healthy-start-support-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "get-healthy-start-support-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "before-birth-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "before-birth-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-healthy-start-support-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "get-healthy-start-support-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-healthy-start-support-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "get-healthy-start-support-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Use the current Healthy Start or nation-specific equivalent route for food, milk and vitamin support.", "domain": { "id": "before-birth-and-starting-family", "route": "life-course-domain/before-birth-and-starting-family", "title": "Before birth and starting a family" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A pregnant person or family with a young child wants to check the relevant healthy-food support route.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Use the current Healthy Start or nation-specific equivalent route for food, milk and vitamin support.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f67b074df1d35c1d47a24003", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/65d1af197ef3daefe3f54e5f" }, "route": "service-episode/get-healthy-start-support-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b097c2f8a7075d3b513ad249", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/794005dfb72589c85a0f832e", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/536417261e6dfa0e723c30e1", "resource_route": "resource/get-healthy-start-support-get-healthy-start-support-primary", "source_id": "get-healthy-start-support-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e49c8ba76bf00094f89dfcf8", "resource_route": "resource/get-healthy-start-support-before-birth-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-scotland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-healthy-start-support-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "get-healthy-start-support-primary", "before-birth-scotland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to get healthy start support and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the current Healthy Start or nation-specific equivalent route for food, milk and vitamin support." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3aadd8c0553f2a2b10b83d03", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/72855582b233a1cb07fa7219", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bac3f18877646257ee5370a7", "resource_route": "resource/get-healthy-start-support-get-healthy-start-support-primary", "source_id": "get-healthy-start-support-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9f4290b52b59d3921e1bfb36", "resource_route": "resource/get-healthy-start-support-before-birth-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-scotland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/get-healthy-start-support-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "get-healthy-start-support-primary", "before-birth-scotland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0885bbf86588ebff3dc9ad52", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6d2fef6fa48eff69539c4d1f" }, "route": "service-episode/get-healthy-start-support-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4c8df527f3bf4b87ea604d26", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/abee75e6d954ff322408558c", "resource_route": "resource/get-healthy-start-support-get-healthy-start-support-primary", "source_id": "get-healthy-start-support-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ee0f598b3c899d9beb0106b0", "resource_route": "resource/get-healthy-start-support-before-birth-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-scotland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-healthy-start-support-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-healthy-start-support-primary", "before-birth-scotland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-healthy-start-support", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get Healthy Start support\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support** in the **Before birth and starting a family** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the current Healthy Start or nation-specific equivalent route for food, milk and vitamin support.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Healthy Start](https://www.gov.uk/healthy-start)\n- [Scotland: Having a baby in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family/children-parenting/having-baby)\n- [Wales: Healthy Start](https://www.gov.uk/healthy-start)\n- [Northern Ireland: Healthy Start](https://www.gov.uk/healthy-start)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support", "source": "services/get-healthy-start-support.md", "title": "Get Healthy Start support within Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support" }, "process": { "id": "pregnancy-maternity-and-workplace-support", "route": "enclosing-process/pregnancy-maternity-and-workplace-support", "title": "Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-fertility-and-reproductive-health", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access fertility and reproductive health" }, { "id": "claim-maternity-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-maternity-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Maternity Allowance" }, { "id": "get-pregnancy-workplace-protection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-pregnancy-workplace-protection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get pregnancy workplace protection" }, { "id": "receive-maternity-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-maternity-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive maternity care" }, { "id": "start-antenatal-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-antenatal-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start antenatal care" }, { "id": "take-maternity-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-maternity-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take maternity leave" }, { "id": "take-paternity-or-partner-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-paternity-or-partner-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take paternity or partner leave" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7f0fe90e65083eff0da19a7a", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9a11990d291c75a13a70445d" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-healthy-start-support", "situations": [ "A pregnant person or family with a young child wants to check the relevant healthy-food support route." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "healthy_start_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-healthy-start-support-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Scotland uses a distinct support route; the bundle does not calculate eligibility or payment." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS Business Services Authority", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8367347ddaec7ad9266072a6", "resource_id": "resource:get-healthy-start-support:get-healthy-start-support-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-healthy-start-support-get-healthy-start-support-primary", "summary": "Routes people to Healthy Start information and application support for its published coverage.", "title": "Healthy Start", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/healthy-start" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_pregnancy_and_parenting_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "before-birth-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/547696cdc2329af3f410d304", "resource_id": "resource:get-healthy-start-support:before-birth-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-healthy-start-support-before-birth-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Scotland to current pregnancy, birth and early-parenting services and support.", "title": "Having a baby in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family/children-parenting/having-baby" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Get Healthy Start support", "user_needs": [ "Find the current programme for the nation and submit a claim without the bundle deciding eligibility." ] }, { "aliases": [ "arrested abroad help", "victim abroad", "hospital or crisis overseas" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Contact local emergency services and the relevant consular post, preserve case details and follow the incident-specific medical, legal, insurance or family route.", "domain": { "id": "holidays-volunteering-and-living-overseas", "route": "life-course-domain/holidays-volunteering-and-living-overseas", "title": "Holidays, volunteering and living overseas" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A British national or family faces a serious accident", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Contact local emergency services and the relevant consular post, preserve case details and follow the incident-specific medical, legal, insurance or family route.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7b6177e3c2c700506695b135", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b2a5fbc4fe48b9083922e0e6" }, "route": "service-episode/get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/567a3a7bf8c674b50b1cd1a8", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/10674f5a92ca765a44b9972a", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/23564794121ff597031b2810", "resource_route": "resource/get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-primary", "source_id": "get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to get help after a serious incident abroad and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Contact local emergency services and the relevant consular post, preserve case details and follow the incident-specific medical, legal, insurance or family route." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ad5cf097bad1c4d4fa5ff4cb", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/532d140606abf2ca4f40d7b6", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7a78eb37f9cb2631c7ccb12d", "resource_route": "resource/get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-primary", "source_id": "get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8020715ca8f822ff4c726744", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/38e7e66c51ab0a29a26778ab" }, "route": "service-episode/get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c8759dba13bab445cac478ab", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f85655924490b96d79bca70a", "resource_route": "resource/get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-primary", "source_id": "get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get help after a serious incident abroad\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Live, work and get help overseas** in the **Holidays, volunteering and living overseas** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nContact local emergency services and the relevant consular post, preserve case details and follow the incident-specific medical, legal, insurance or family route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Support for British nationals abroad](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/support-for-british-nationals-abroad)\n- [Scotland: Support for British nationals abroad](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/support-for-british-nationals-abroad)\n- [Wales: Support for British nationals abroad](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/support-for-british-nationals-abroad)\n- [Northern Ireland: Support for British nationals abroad](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/support-for-british-nationals-abroad)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Live, work and get help overseas**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Live, work and get help overseas", "source": "services/get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad.md", "title": "Get help after a serious incident abroad within Live, work and get help overseas" }, "process": { "id": "live-work-and-get-help-overseas", "route": "enclosing-process/live-work-and-get-help-overseas", "title": "Live, work and get help overseas" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-consular-assistance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-consular-assistance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get consular assistance" }, { "id": "manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad", "sequenced": false, "title": "Manage tax, National Insurance, benefits and pensions abroad" }, { "id": "obtain-emergency-travel-document", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-emergency-travel-document", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain an emergency travel document" }, { "id": "study-or-volunteer-overseas", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/study-or-volunteer-overseas", "sequenced": false, "title": "Study or volunteer overseas" }, { "id": "work-overseas", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/work-overseas", "sequenced": false, "title": "Work overseas" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a5cdea6905e4e64d5f6d2833", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1085c0860f3b3b18f3dfec51" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad", "situations": [ "A British national or family faces a serious accident, crime, arrest, detention, disaster or other crisis abroad." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_consular_assistance_scope", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not provide emergency response, legal representation, medical treatment, insurance or a guaranteed intervention." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/261573d718cea3c2fe3fdd85", "resource_id": "resource:get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad:get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad-primary", "summary": "Explains the current scope and limits of consular assistance for serious situations abroad.", "title": "Support for British nationals abroad", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/support-for-british-nationals-abroad" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Get help after a serious incident abroad", "user_needs": [ "Find urgent local and consular boundaries without legal, medical or safety advice from the bundle." ] }, { "aliases": [ "at risk of homelessness", "emergency housing help", "council homelessness application" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": 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"northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Contact the accountable housing authority early, state immediate safety and accommodation needs and retain prevention, relief or review decisions.", "domain": { "id": "housing-and-community", "route": "life-course-domain/housing-and-community", "title": "Housing and community life" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person has nowhere safe to stay or may lose accommodation.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Contact the accountable housing authority early, state immediate safety and accommodation needs and retain prevention, relief or review decisions.", 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"state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/92e3f8f7c9b1159e5d8e83ff", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/95bd6e0fb40a5018a5122965", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8d916e04cb0ee1a8b4a3c5a0", "resource_route": "resource/get-homelessness-help-get-homelessness-help-primary", "source_id": "get-homelessness-help-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/66ffba3c1254407260ba8bd9", "resource_route": "resource/get-homelessness-help-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff" }, 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"resource/get-homelessness-help-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-homelessness-help-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-homelessness-help-primary", "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "housing-community-wales-handoff", "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-homelessness-help", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get homelessness help\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Secure and move home** in the **Housing and community life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nContact the accountable housing authority early, state immediate safety and accommodation needs and retain prevention, relief or review decisions.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Help if you're homeless or at risk of homelessness](https://www.gov.uk/homelessness-help-from-council)\n- [Scotland: Housing and local services in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services)\n- [Wales: Housing in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/housing)\n- [Northern Ireland: Property and housing in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/property-and-housing)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Secure and move home**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Secure and move home", "source": "services/get-homelessness-help.md", "title": "Get homelessness help within Secure and move home" }, "process": { "id": "secure-and-move-home", "route": "enclosing-process/secure-and-move-home", "title": "Secure and move home" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-social-housing", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-social-housing", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for social housing" }, { "id": "buy-home", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/buy-home", "sequenced": false, "title": "Buy a home" }, { "id": "move-home", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/move-home", "sequenced": false, "title": "Move home" }, { "id": "protect-tenancy-deposit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/protect-tenancy-deposit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Protect a tenancy deposit" }, { "id": "prove-right-to-rent", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/prove-right-to-rent", "sequenced": false, "title": "Prove the right to rent" }, { "id": "register-for-council-tax", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-for-council-tax", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register for Council Tax" }, { "id": "rent-private-home", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/rent-private-home", "sequenced": false, "title": "Rent a private home" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e9531d26c6b2fc14414bfccb", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/492e07981e2ac164c36e20c0" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-homelessness-help", "situations": [ "A person has nowhere safe to stay or may lose accommodation." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_homelessness_help_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-homelessness-help-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess homelessness, priority need, local connection, safety or accommodation suitability." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/67f3cb8e6d2721c29605d1d2", "resource_id": "resource:get-homelessness-help:get-homelessness-help-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-homelessness-help-get-homelessness-help-primary", "summary": "Routes people in England to local homelessness prevention and assessment services.", "title": "Help if you're homeless or at risk of homelessness", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/homelessness-help-from-council" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England housing rule or local route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f6c8db7b18d691610094b585", "resource_id": "resource:get-homelessness-help:housing-community-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-homelessness-help-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish housing, planning, local-tax and neighbourhood services.", "title": "Housing and local services in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services" }, { "authority_role": "wales_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine a tenancy, planning, homelessness or adaptation decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e9c1bab95fd92d46e80e82cd", "resource_id": "resource:get-homelessness-help:housing-community-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": 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"linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-homelessness-help-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland property, housing and local-service information.", "title": "Property and housing in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/property-and-housing" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Get homelessness help", "user_needs": [ "Find the urgent local route while preserving safeguarding, domestic-abuse and statutory decision boundaries." ] }, { "aliases": [ "adapt home for older person", "disabled facilities grant older person", "home equipment in later life" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-housing-adaptation-in-later-life-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": 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treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get a housing adaptation in later life\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Arrange later-life care and future decisions** in the **Later life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nRequest the local assessment, identify housing and tenure responsibilities and use the funding, works and review route offered for the home.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Disabled Facilities Grants](https://www.gov.uk/disabled-facilities-grants)\n- [Scotland: Benefits in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/benefits)\n- [Wales: Social care in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/social-care)\n- [Northern Ireland: Pensions and retirement planning](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/pensions-and-retirement-planning)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Arrange later-life care and future decisions**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Arrange later-life care and future decisions", "source": "services/get-housing-adaptation-in-later-life.md", "title": "Get a housing adaptation in later life within Arrange later-life care and future decisions" }, "process": { "id": "arrange-later-life-care-and-future-decisions", "route": "enclosing-process/arrange-later-life-care-and-future-decisions", "title": "Arrange later-life care and future decisions" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access palliative or end-of-life care" 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"Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get Jobcentre support\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter fair and supported work** in the **Finding work and unemployment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nContact the applicable public employment service for work-search, claim or appointment support.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Contact Jobcentre Plus](https://www.gov.uk/contact-jobcentre-plus)\n- [Scotland: Finding a job in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job)\n- [Wales: Employment support in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/employment-support)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter fair and supported work**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter fair and supported work", "source": "services/get-jobcentre-support.md", "title": "Get Jobcentre support within Enter fair and supported work" }, "process": { "id": "enter-fair-and-supported-work", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-fair-and-supported-work", "title": "Enter fair and supported work" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-access-to-work", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-access-to-work", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Access to Work" }, { "id": "get-disclosure-or-dbs-check", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-disclosure-or-dbs-check", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a disclosure or DBS check" }, { "id": "prove-right-to-work", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/prove-right-to-work", "sequenced": false, "title": "Prove the right to work" }, { "id": "resolve-recruitment-discrimination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/resolve-recruitment-discrimination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Resolve recruitment discrimination" }, { "id": "start-work-based-apprenticeship", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-work-based-apprenticeship", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start a work-based apprenticeship" }, { "id": "use-public-job-search", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-public-job-search", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use public job search" }, { "id": "volunteer-in-the-uk", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/volunteer-in-the-uk", "sequenced": false, "title": "Volunteer in the UK" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5cdc71aa69431252d5955b5c", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ceb639e561e11e2749f41a0b" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-jobcentre-support", "situations": [ "A person needs help from a Jobcentre or employment-service adviser." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_jobcentre_contact_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-jobcentre-support-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not book an appointment or decide a claim or work-related requirement." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Work and Pensions", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/867957ccf8d928da3847323b", "resource_id": "resource:get-jobcentre-support:get-jobcentre-support-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-jobcentre-support-get-jobcentre-support-primary", "summary": "Provides Great Britain Jobcentre Plus contact routes by purpose.", "title": "Contact Jobcentre Plus", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/contact-jobcentre-plus" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ffe8c01d02f86be06b144db2", "resource_id": "resource:get-jobcentre-support:finding-work-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-jobcentre-support-finding-work-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish job-search and employment-support services.", "title": "Finding a job in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job" }, { "authority_role": "wales_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d6aa23b577f3bdb15295dd39", "resource_id": "resource:get-jobcentre-support:finding-work-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-jobcentre-support-finding-work-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh employability and skills support.", "title": "Employment support in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/employment-support" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0710392573d27d3ffc1d363f", "resource_id": "resource:get-jobcentre-support:finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-jobcentre-support-finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland employment services and rights.", "title": "Employment in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Get Jobcentre support", "user_needs": [ "Find the right service and retain appointment, claim or referral outputs." ] }, { "aliases": [ "care leaver help", "personal adviser after local authority care" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-leaving-care-support-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/89391461dfd4ba6510aeae25" }, "route": "service-episode/get-leaving-care-support-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dfb75533fe09512c0d820e4f", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5da84da9176978690c352e3f", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a121b2944582b70db57d7b30", "resource_route": "resource/get-leaving-care-support-get-leaving-care-support-primary", "source_id": "get-leaving-care-support-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1fe29206b4521b177db1112c", "resource_route": "resource/get-leaving-care-support-transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/57682a24343c75ee5ceadbd6", "resource_route": "resource/get-leaving-care-support-transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/490271af0de9df74b0a73c0b", "resource_route": "resource/get-leaving-care-support-transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-leaving-care-support-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "get-leaving-care-support-primary", "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to get leaving-care support and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Find the local-authority planning, adviser and support route for moving from care into adulthood." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c1b7f5c66e05fe8363bbbef9", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bf2ffd6899506817476f30bf", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ce0b5610d0c474966b8fa53e", "resource_route": "resource/get-leaving-care-support-get-leaving-care-support-primary", "source_id": "get-leaving-care-support-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f8a4462c9153c6bb3661eafa", "resource_route": "resource/get-leaving-care-support-transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6843bbf6a612a461c5008132", "resource_route": "resource/get-leaving-care-support-transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2c2b8c3a5dac53508b9be506", "resource_route": "resource/get-leaving-care-support-transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/get-leaving-care-support-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "get-leaving-care-support-primary", "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d44330d6827ddf8dffde3d19", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ce1c02b2ef1db33100343faf" }, "route": "service-episode/get-leaving-care-support-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1b76f48479070cf1ee4afa1c", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/207f992f4fa79f212a93c0ba", "resource_route": "resource/get-leaving-care-support-get-leaving-care-support-primary", "source_id": "get-leaving-care-support-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/947a7c2492cb9e26b68f8eaf", "resource_route": "resource/get-leaving-care-support-transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a4b80b89394f4e225643f515", "resource_route": "resource/get-leaving-care-support-transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e574e41c05d8adcc4961faf2", "resource_route": "resource/get-leaving-care-support-transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-leaving-care-support-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-leaving-care-support-primary", "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-leaving-care-support", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get leaving-care support\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Move into independent mobility, health and care** in the **Transition to adulthood** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind the local-authority planning, adviser and support route for moving from care into adulthood.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Leaving foster or local authority care](https://www.gov.uk/leaving-foster-or-local-authority-care)\n- [Scotland: Education and training in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Young people in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Move into independent mobility, health and care**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Move into independent mobility, health and care", "source": "services/get-leaving-care-support.md", "title": "Get leaving-care support within Move into independent mobility, health and care" }, "process": { "id": "move-into-independent-mobility-health-and-care", "route": "enclosing-process/move-into-independent-mobility-health-and-care", "title": "Move into independent mobility, health and care" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-child-trust-fund", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-child-trust-fund", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access a Child Trust Fund" }, { "id": "consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person", "sequenced": false, "title": "Consent to healthcare as a young person" }, { "id": "learn-to-drive-car", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/learn-to-drive-car", "sequenced": false, "title": "Learn to drive a car" }, { "id": "transition-to-adult-social-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/transition-to-adult-social-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Transition to adult social care" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0f46836f5bdb09aa39520442", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6c5a1ec60ac5086e02ecc8dd" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-leaving-care-support", "situations": [ "A young person is preparing to leave or has recently left local-authority care." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_care_leaver_support_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-leaving-care-support-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess individual entitlement, need or accommodation safety." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9f4580a7d0b0e396f935a806", "resource_id": "resource:get-leaving-care-support:get-leaving-care-support-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-leaving-care-support-get-leaving-care-support-primary", "summary": "Introduces England leaving-care entitlements and the local-authority support route.", "title": "Leaving foster or local authority care", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/leaving-foster-or-local-authority-care" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7d40a942e1c78dd980ac848f", "resource_id": "resource:get-leaving-care-support:transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-leaving-care-support-transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish education, training and transition services.", "title": "Education and training in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/49564858b529a8db09ff2694", "resource_id": "resource:get-leaving-care-support:transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-leaving-care-support-transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh learning, skills and transition services.", "title": "Education and skills in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/education-skills" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8d4cd23e96e4b57cdb28ee75", "resource_id": "resource:get-leaving-care-support:transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-leaving-care-support-transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes young people to current Northern Ireland services and responsibilities.", "title": "Young people in Northern Ireland", "url": 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"source_ids": [ "get-legal-aid-primary", "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to get legal aid and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the jurisdiction and problem-specific assessment route and provide the financial and merits evidence it currently requests." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e051e50ca9410b5283be30ed", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ed86ed2493d481f74b7d3a0b", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ad287f95e569312d640200f9", "resource_route": "resource/get-legal-aid-get-legal-aid-primary", "source_id": "get-legal-aid-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b75cbaf2e158d1792f0d50bc", "resource_route": "resource/get-legal-aid-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d7f2ba980b983edec832ce2a", "resource_route": "resource/get-legal-aid-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4be55a5a5f6b6928267631b5", "resource_route": "resource/get-legal-aid-police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-legal-aid-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-legal-aid-primary", "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-legal-aid", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get legal aid\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Obtain legal help and use adjudication** in the **Police and legal services** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the jurisdiction and problem-specific assessment route and provide the financial and merits evidence it currently requests.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Legal aid](https://www.gov.uk/legal-aid)\n- [Scotland: Crime, justice and the law in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/crime-justice-law)\n- [Wales: Legal aid](https://www.gov.uk/legal-aid)\n- [Northern Ireland: Crime, justice and the law in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/crime-justice-and-law)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Obtain legal help and use adjudication**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Obtain legal help and use adjudication", "source": "services/get-legal-aid.md", "title": "Get legal aid within Obtain legal help and use adjudication" }, "process": { "id": "obtain-legal-help-and-use-adjudication", "route": "enclosing-process/obtain-legal-help-and-use-adjudication", "title": "Obtain legal help and use adjudication" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision", "sequenced": false, "title": "Appeal a court or tribunal decision" }, { "id": "obtain-police-station-legal-advice", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-police-station-legal-advice", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain police-station legal advice" }, { "id": "use-civil-or-family-court", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-civil-or-family-court", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a civil or family court" }, { "id": "use-tribunal", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-tribunal", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a tribunal" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/40b246810352a0c844a79b02", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5cdb807e52fe282b383490dc" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-legal-aid", "situations": [ "A person needs legal help and may be unable to pay privately." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_legal_aid_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-legal-aid-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide financial or merits eligibility, find a case outcome or replace urgent legal advice." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Justice", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/66d0f1a8c24fea2fb3dca5a3", "resource_id": "resource:get-legal-aid:get-legal-aid-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-legal-aid-get-legal-aid-primary", "summary": "Introduces England and Wales civil and criminal legal-aid scope, checks and provider handoffs.", "title": "Legal aid", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/legal-aid" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_police_legal_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not provide emergency response, legal advice or an individual court or appeal route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bd530a2021151c734a36f17c", "resource_id": "resource:get-legal-aid:police-legal-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-legal-aid-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish police, victim support, legal aid, courts and tribunal information.", "title": "Crime, justice and the law in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/crime-justice-law" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_police_legal_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "England, Wales and Scotland justice procedure does not establish Northern Ireland routes." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ecbc7528dd916dca599595a6", "resource_id": "resource:get-legal-aid:police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-legal-aid-police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland policing, victims, legal help, courts and tribunal services.", "title": "Crime, justice and the law in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/crime-justice-and-law" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Get legal 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"wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "disability-care-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "disability-care-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Support the person to decide where possible and use the applicable professional, advocacy, representation or court route for the specific decision.", "domain": { "id": "disability-care-and-support", "route": "life-course-domain/disability-care-and-support", "title": "Disability, 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"narrative": { "body": "# Get mental-capacity support\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress** in the **Disability, care and support** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSupport the person to decide where possible and use the applicable professional, advocacy, representation or court route for the specific decision.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Mental Capacity Act](https://www.nhs.uk/social-care-and-support/making-decisions-for-someone-else/mental-capacity-act/)\n- [Scotland: Health and social care in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/health-social-care)\n- [Wales: Social care in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/social-care)\n- [Northern Ireland: Caring for someone in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/caring-someone)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress", "source": "services/get-mental-capacity-support.md", "title": "Get mental-capacity support within Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress" }, "process": { "id": "safeguard-capacity-mobility-and-care-redress", "route": "enclosing-process/safeguard-capacity-mobility-and-care-redress", "title": "Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-mobility-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-mobility-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access mobility support" }, { "id": "arrange-supported-decision-representation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-supported-decision-representation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange supported decision representation" }, { "id": "challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision", "sequenced": false, "title": "Challenge a care or disability-benefit decision" }, { "id": "obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a workplace disability adjustment" }, { "id": "report-adult-safeguarding-concern", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-adult-safeguarding-concern", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report an adult safeguarding concern" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1399dcf3294a8d20c30095fc", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a96ac9a9a13cd7ff34108916" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-mental-capacity-support", "situations": [ "There is concern about a person's ability to make a particular decision at the relevant time." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_mental_capacity_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-mental-capacity-support-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess capacity, decide best interests, appoint a representative or establish devolved law." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7fa5e2cc4bfc295f01c50c75", "resource_id": "resource:get-mental-capacity-support:get-mental-capacity-support-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-mental-capacity-support-get-mental-capacity-support-primary", "summary": "Introduces England and Wales decision-specific capacity, best-interests and protection principles.", "title": "Mental Capacity Act", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/social-care-and-support/making-decisions-for-someone-else/mental-capacity-act/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine eligibility, local provision, capacity, safeguarding action or redress." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f93f79a9c4f06c1b56780ba5", "resource_id": "resource:get-mental-capacity-support:disability-care-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-mental-capacity-support-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish disability, care, capacity, support and benefit services.", "title": "Health and social care in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/health-social-care" }, { "authority_role": "wales_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify an individual local authority route or decide eligibility or safeguarding action." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": 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state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6b773bca17ac3fbc5ff83095", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/84779b01fd9b6cdbf4d5de85", "resource_route": "resource/get-national-insurance-record-get-national-insurance-record-primary", "source_id": "get-national-insurance-record-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-national-insurance-record-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-national-insurance-record-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-national-insurance-record", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get a National Insurance record\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Manage personal tax and contributions** in the **Money, tax and benefits** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nView contribution years and use HMRC correction or voluntary-contribution handoffs for apparent gaps.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Check your National Insurance record](https://www.gov.uk/check-national-insurance-record)\n- [Scotland: Check your National Insurance record](https://www.gov.uk/check-national-insurance-record)\n- [Wales: Check your National Insurance record](https://www.gov.uk/check-national-insurance-record)\n- [Northern Ireland: Check your National Insurance record](https://www.gov.uk/check-national-insurance-record)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Manage personal tax and contributions**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Manage personal tax and contributions", "source": "services/get-national-insurance-record.md", "title": "Get a National Insurance record within Manage personal tax and contributions" }, "process": { "id": "manage-personal-tax-and-contributions", "route": "enclosing-process/manage-personal-tax-and-contributions", "title": "Manage personal tax and contributions" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-tax-refund", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-tax-refund", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim a tax refund" }, { "id": "file-self-assessment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/file-self-assessment", "sequenced": false, "title": "File Self Assessment" }, { "id": "manage-student-loan-repayment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/manage-student-loan-repayment", "sequenced": false, "title": "Manage student loan repayment" }, { "id": "pay-council-tax", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/pay-council-tax", "sequenced": false, "title": "Pay Council Tax" }, { "id": "register-for-income-tax", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-for-income-tax", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register for Income Tax" }, { "id": "register-for-vat", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-for-vat", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register for VAT" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/491274fd67ccf18b8371b876", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d774c8cf745d28e68abbc1f4" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-national-insurance-record", "situations": [ "A person needs to understand the National Insurance record used for state benefits or pension." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_national_insurance_record_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-national-insurance-record-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not alter a record or advise whether voluntary contributions are worthwhile." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "HM Revenue and Customs", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b1c6ef731671b8ef4a923a6f", "resource_id": "resource:get-national-insurance-record:get-national-insurance-record-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-national-insurance-record-get-national-insurance-record-primary", "summary": "Provides the official contribution-year and gap-viewing service.", "title": "Check your National Insurance record", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/check-national-insurance-record" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Get a National Insurance record", "user_needs": [ "Access the official record and keep forecast, correction and payment decisions separate." ] }, { "aliases": [ "resident parking permit", "visitor parking permit", "council controlled parking" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-parking-permit-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "get-parking-permit-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Apply to the responsible parking authority for the applicable resident, visitor, business or special permit and retain its conditions.", "domain": { "id": "public-and-private-transport", "route": "life-course-domain/public-and-private-transport", "title": "Public and private transport" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person or organisation needs permission to park within a locally controlled scheme.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Apply to the responsible parking authority for the applicable resident, visitor, business or special permit and retain its conditions.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/02412352bef6054e038c58d2", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f3aaec00684a8ea57600c59c" }, "route": "service-episode/get-parking-permit-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/745be095c86dbcd54ea64c1b", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/87b7082b773b721806a1dd0f", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8d9e936ae830dbb27d6db868", "resource_route": "resource/get-parking-permit-get-parking-permit-primary", "source_id": "get-parking-permit-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e51789bdbd75059202d6633b", "resource_route": "resource/get-parking-permit-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/59713f4a83dcc8636a0b3295", "resource_route": "resource/get-parking-permit-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b1becb07105ed55dcb556161", "resource_route": "resource/get-parking-permit-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-parking-permit-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "get-parking-permit-primary", "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to get a parking permit and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Apply to the responsible parking authority for the applicable resident, visitor, business or special permit and retain its conditions." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3190325a30d980101db64448", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2b3cf538aa25e2b36cb748fd", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a7e069d5844d7afe995857ac", "resource_route": "resource/get-parking-permit-get-parking-permit-primary", "source_id": "get-parking-permit-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1713524c8e32ecaa9c378c85", "resource_route": "resource/get-parking-permit-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8c84f0d31bd7847d7ebe87de", "resource_route": "resource/get-parking-permit-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/500638c709fecf1f11484c5e", "resource_route": "resource/get-parking-permit-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/get-parking-permit-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "get-parking-permit-primary", "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a224b3c6de31a85f375b3ef3", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7984757347be138f5319e9ab" }, "route": "service-episode/get-parking-permit-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c9a624aa63a9b4e4a049832d", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b166d69ccb88ca3f9697d01c", "resource_route": "resource/get-parking-permit-get-parking-permit-primary", "source_id": "get-parking-permit-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3fffb1311858e9b93e89f213", "resource_route": "resource/get-parking-permit-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/284d3d617b5c86d6804c7e6b", "resource_route": "resource/get-parking-permit-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/10d7a38c131dde1523b92d28", "resource_route": "resource/get-parking-permit-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-parking-permit-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-parking-permit-primary", "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-parking-permit", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get a parking permit\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Own and use a road vehicle** in the **Public and private transport** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nApply to the responsible parking authority for the applicable resident, visitor, business or special permit and retain its conditions.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Apply for a parking permit](https://www.gov.uk/parking-permit)\n- [Scotland: Transport and travel in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport)\n- [Wales: Transport in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/transport)\n- [Northern Ireland: Travel, transport and roads in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/travel-transport-and-roads)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Own and use a road vehicle**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Own and use a road vehicle", "source": "services/get-parking-permit.md", "title": "Get a parking permit within Own and use a road vehicle" }, "process": { "id": "own-and-use-a-road-vehicle", "route": "enclosing-process/own-and-use-a-road-vehicle", "title": "Own and use a road vehicle" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "obtain-mot-test", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-mot-test", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain an MOT test" }, { "id": "obtain-motor-insurance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-motor-insurance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain motor insurance" }, { "id": "pay-clean-air-zone-charge", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/pay-clean-air-zone-charge", "sequenced": false, "title": "Pay a clean air zone charge" }, { "id": "register-vehicle", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-vehicle", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a vehicle" }, { "id": "report-road-collision", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-road-collision", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a road collision" }, { "id": "tax-or-sorn-vehicle", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/tax-or-sorn-vehicle", "sequenced": false, "title": "Tax or make a SORN for a vehicle" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/07bc8bdb0ba7cc8c171f73f7", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8dd3215a08b0e61a77a1aedd" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-parking-permit", "situations": [ "A person or organisation needs permission to park within a locally controlled scheme." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_parking_permit_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-parking-permit-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine eligibility, zone coverage, cost, availability, conditions or enforcement." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b299a0be3a69fa188c35d6a6", "resource_id": "resource:get-parking-permit:get-parking-permit-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-parking-permit-get-parking-permit-primary", "summary": "Routes England and Wales users to the relevant council parking-permit service.", "title": "Apply for a parking permit", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/parking-permit" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England concession, permit or operator-licensing route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8d6331e1156df322c9ddd0ef", "resource_id": "resource:get-parking-permit:public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-parking-permit-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish public, accessible, local and road-transport services.", "title": "Transport and travel in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport" }, { "authority_role": "wales_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine a local permit, concession, operator licence or journey accessibility." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f895d92807bd889a73bf3efd", "resource_id": "resource:get-parking-permit:public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-parking-permit-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh transport 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Northern Ireland public-transport, motoring and road services.", "title": "Travel, transport and roads in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/travel-transport-and-roads" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Get a parking permit", "user_needs": [ "Identify the exact authority and zone and distinguish permits from Blue Badges, suspensions and private parking." ] }, { "aliases": [ "pregnant employee rights", "pregnancy discrimination at work" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-pregnancy-workplace-protection-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "get-pregnancy-workplace-protection-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": 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bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get pregnancy workplace protection\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support** in the **Before birth and starting a family** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNavigate health and safety, time-off, discrimination and employment-redress routes connected with pregnancy at work.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Pregnant employees' rights](https://www.gov.uk/working-when-pregnant-your-rights)\n- [Scotland: Pregnant employees' rights](https://www.gov.uk/working-when-pregnant-your-rights)\n- [Wales: Pregnant employees' rights](https://www.gov.uk/working-when-pregnant-your-rights)\n- [Northern Ireland: Family, home and community in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/family-home-and-community)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support", "source": "services/get-pregnancy-workplace-protection.md", "title": "Get pregnancy workplace protection within Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support" }, "process": { "id": "pregnancy-maternity-and-workplace-support", "route": "enclosing-process/pregnancy-maternity-and-workplace-support", "title": "Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-fertility-and-reproductive-health", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access fertility and reproductive health" }, { "id": "claim-maternity-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-maternity-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Maternity Allowance" }, { "id": "get-healthy-start-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-healthy-start-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Healthy Start support" }, { "id": "receive-maternity-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-maternity-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive maternity care" }, { "id": "start-antenatal-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-antenatal-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start antenatal care" }, { "id": "take-maternity-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-maternity-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take maternity leave" }, { "id": "take-paternity-or-partner-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-paternity-or-partner-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take paternity or partner leave" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e4d04a85b6bba6a505215458", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/29114edea4c4135314fd8601" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-pregnancy-workplace-protection", "situations": [ "A pregnant employee needs to understand the employer and statutory protection routes." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_pregnancy_employment_rights_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-pregnancy-workplace-protection-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide employment status, discrimination, safety risk, remedy or Northern Ireland law." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Business and Trade", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3e64083dc013a3ef00c6a4d1", "resource_id": "resource:get-pregnancy-workplace-protection:get-pregnancy-workplace-protection-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-pregnancy-workplace-protection-get-pregnancy-workplace-protection-primary", "summary": "Introduces current Great Britain pregnancy-at-work rights and employer handoffs.", "title": "Pregnant employees' rights", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/working-when-pregnant-your-rights" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_family_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a 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exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get a prescription\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Use routine and preventive healthcare** in the **Health throughout life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the responsible prescriber and dispensing route, follow current charge or exemption information and escalate urgent supply problems through the health service.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Prescriptions](https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/prescriptions/)\n- [Scotland: NHS services in Scotland](https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/)\n- [Wales: NHS 111 Wales](https://111.wales.nhs.uk/)\n- [Northern Ireland: Health and Social Care Northern Ireland online](https://online.hscni.net/)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Use routine and preventive healthcare**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Use routine and preventive healthcare", "source": "services/get-prescription.md", "title": "Get a prescription within Use routine and preventive healthcare" }, "process": { "id": "use-routine-and-preventive-healthcare", "route": "enclosing-process/use-routine-and-preventive-healthcare", "title": "Use routine and preventive healthcare" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-dental-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-dental-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access dental care" }, { "id": "access-eye-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-eye-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access eye care" }, { "id": "get-sexual-and-reproductive-healthcare", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-sexual-and-reproductive-healthcare", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get sexual and reproductive healthcare" }, { "id": "get-vaccination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-vaccination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a vaccination" }, { "id": "register-with-gp", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-with-gp", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register with a GP" }, { "id": "use-pharmacy-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-pharmacy-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use pharmacy services" }, { "id": "use-screening-service", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-screening-service", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a screening service" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": 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"not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f7e6aeb8324fe0aad850ade6", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3a72d3287e989e33911eb5eb", "resource_route": "resource/get-redundancy-support-get-redundancy-support-primary", "source_id": "get-redundancy-support-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ccf365cdd1414c75a05106c0", "resource_route": "resource/get-redundancy-support-finding-work-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f0378674fb17acd347677401", "resource_route": "resource/get-redundancy-support-finding-work-wales-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/38255e7e355e33c3e1eb939f", "resource_route": "resource/get-redundancy-support-finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-redundancy-support-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-redundancy-support-primary", "finding-work-scotland-handoff", "finding-work-wales-handoff", "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-redundancy-support", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get redundancy support\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Respond to unemployment and redundancy** in the **Finding work and unemployment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNavigate notice, consultation, pay, benefits, job-search and dispute routes after a redundancy proposal or dismissal.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Redundancy, your rights](https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights)\n- [Scotland: Finding a job in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job)\n- [Wales: Employment support in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/employment-support)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Respond to unemployment and redundancy**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Respond to unemployment and redundancy", "source": "services/get-redundancy-support.md", "title": "Get redundancy support within Respond to unemployment and redundancy" }, "process": { "id": "respond-to-unemployment-and-redundancy", "route": "enclosing-process/respond-to-unemployment-and-redundancy", "title": "Respond to unemployment and redundancy" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-employment-retraining", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-employment-retraining", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access employment retraining" }, { "id": "claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim New Style Jobseeker's Allowance" }, { "id": "claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Universal Credit while unemployed" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/36135b8488a188e256c6616e", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a3e4d47bf4a47affc7243a2f" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-redundancy-support", "situations": [ "A worker has been told their role may end or has been made redundant." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_redundancy_rights_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-redundancy-support-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not calculate an individual award or determine whether dismissal was fair." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Business and Trade", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f6053b7536f7965c9d1121a9", "resource_id": "resource:get-redundancy-support:get-redundancy-support-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-redundancy-support-get-redundancy-support-primary", "summary": "Explains Great Britain redundancy consultation, notice and pay routes.", "title": "Redundancy, your rights", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3d77afe4ebbb86a4ac08b17c", "resource_id": "resource:get-redundancy-support:finding-work-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-redundancy-support-finding-work-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish job-search and employment-support services.", "title": "Finding a job in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job" }, { "authority_role": "wales_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/054accadd2b70d78fef9ce82", "resource_id": "resource:get-redundancy-support:finding-work-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-redundancy-support-finding-work-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh employability and skills support.", "title": "Employment support in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/employment-support" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment 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"supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Complete the applicable needs and financial assessments, check regulated provider information and agree placement, funding and review arrangements.", "domain": { "id": "disability-care-and-support", "route": "life-course-domain/disability-care-and-support", "title": "Disability, care and support" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person may need accommodation with personal or nursing care.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Complete the applicable needs and financial assessments, check 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"summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a199baa36d2f44b03429a18e", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/30976c4d0bb66bdf201d03b3", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7c4d4d68f4b0f3f05b7f5a99", "resource_route": "resource/get-residential-care-get-residential-care-primary", "source_id": "get-residential-care-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/917b3212615168a3337393c6", "resource_route": "resource/get-residential-care-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/693beeb306b1aab7c6cba486", "resource_route": "resource/get-residential-care-disability-care-wales-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/da80609fc9d94df3981c9607", "resource_route": "resource/get-residential-care-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-residential-care-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "get-residential-care-primary", "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "disability-care-wales-handoff", "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to get residential care and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Complete the applicable needs and financial assessments, check regulated provider information and agree placement, funding and review arrangements." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/650ee0e8b7fcc0a39ed0a696", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/01eeea14fb234af913d273d8", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2a438717c578a638fce4dc55", "resource_route": "resource/get-residential-care-get-residential-care-primary", "source_id": "get-residential-care-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/025c6a276c32f0ba57868698", "resource_route": "resource/get-residential-care-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/af3632b4d38bd5d5d65b2d36", "resource_route": "resource/get-residential-care-disability-care-wales-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a72c5664efcc5456c073ebc2", "resource_route": "resource/get-residential-care-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/get-residential-care-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ 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"supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/99b9c04d828f5bf520af995c", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0d9257430dfe4bf6485e1938", "resource_route": "resource/get-residential-care-get-residential-care-primary", "source_id": "get-residential-care-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dc158e8d8f2bc365303301b4", "resource_route": "resource/get-residential-care-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8c0483f2b1b790d419d28dc3", "resource_route": "resource/get-residential-care-disability-care-wales-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a5f562b1ec224cfd06df8884", "resource_route": "resource/get-residential-care-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-residential-care-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-residential-care-primary", "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "disability-care-wales-handoff", "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-residential-care", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get residential care\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Assess and deliver disability and care support** in the **Disability, care and support** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nComplete the applicable needs and financial assessments, check regulated provider information and agree placement, funding and review arrangements.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Care homes](https://www.nhs.uk/social-care-and-support/care-services-equipment-and-care-homes/care-homes/)\n- [Scotland: Health and social care in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/health-social-care)\n- [Wales: Social care in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/social-care)\n- [Northern Ireland: Caring for someone in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/caring-someone)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Assess and deliver disability and care support**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Assess and deliver disability and care support", "source": "services/get-residential-care.md", "title": "Get residential care within Assess and deliver disability and care support" }, "process": { "id": "assess-and-deliver-disability-and-care-support", "route": "enclosing-process/assess-and-deliver-disability-and-care-support", "title": "Assess and deliver disability and care support" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-disability-living-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-disability-living-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim disability living support" }, { "id": "get-carers-assessment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-carers-assessment", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a carer's assessment" }, { "id": "get-disability-home-adaptation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-disability-home-adaptation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a disability home adaptation" }, { "id": "get-social-care-needs-assessment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-social-care-needs-assessment", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a social-care needs assessment" }, { "id": "receive-direct-payments", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-direct-payments", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive direct payments" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9d0aeb28674790bba554788e", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1fc7b21e30365258213f1188" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-residential-care", "situations": [ "A person may need accommodation with personal or nursing care." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_care_home_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-residential-care-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess need, recommend a provider, inspect care or establish devolved arrangements." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bd110bb6e9b3704cac9d7efc", "resource_id": "resource:get-residential-care:get-residential-care-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-residential-care-get-residential-care-primary", "summary": "Introduces England care-home types, assessment, funding and regulated-provider finding.", "title": "Care homes", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/social-care-and-support/care-services-equipment-and-care-homes/care-homes/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine eligibility, local provision, capacity, safeguarding action or redress." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5d15a09306f5389073fba5f5", "resource_id": "resource:get-residential-care:disability-care-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-residential-care-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish disability, care, capacity, support and benefit services.", "title": "Health and social care in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/health-social-care" }, { "authority_role": "wales_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify an individual local authority route or decide eligibility or safeguarding action." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3d53d4c5100ae771533d9b17", "resource_id": "resource:get-residential-care:disability-care-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-residential-care-disability-care-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh social-care policy and applicable local service information.", "title": "Social care in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/social-care" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify every trust service or decide eligibility, capacity or safeguarding action." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/97e89e653355ed95a3510136", "resource_id": "resource:get-residential-care:disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-residential-care-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland carer, disability, benefit and care information.", "title": "Caring for someone in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/caring-someone" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Get residential care", "user_needs": [ "Navigate assessment, funding, provider regulation, contracts and safeguarding without recommending a home." ] }, { "aliases": [ "special educational needs help at school", "SEN support" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-school-send-support-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "get-school-send-support-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "school-years-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "school-years-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "school-years-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "school-years-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Navigate school support, assessment and education-plan routes for special educational needs or disability.", "domain": { "id": "school-years", "route": "life-course-domain/school-years", "title": "School years" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A child may need additional educational support because of learning difficulty or disability.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Navigate school support, assessment and education-plan routes for special educational needs or disability.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ca95ae4d07c3065e3cfdffaa", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3ed2e1b526912fb7cc67f8c7" }, "route": "service-episode/get-school-send-support-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4239a74ea27d7fec2ecb6439", "resource_route": "resource/get-school-send-support-get-school-send-support-primary", "source_id": "get-school-send-support-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/072469cff18dc3c175d29ef0", "resource_route": "resource/get-school-send-support-school-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f9e513d35633e3b36724fd6c", "resource_route": "resource/get-school-send-support-school-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9a054ec9487a98f8613b9f91", "resource_route": "resource/get-school-send-support-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-school-send-support-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "get-school-send-support-primary", "school-years-scotland-handoff", "school-years-wales-handoff", "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to get school send support and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Navigate school support, assessment and education-plan routes for special educational needs or disability." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/43cbfae26da6459b426f6d7f", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/debde40bdfac2053414812b7", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/95e22e1bae9e1af49efe6593", "resource_route": "resource/get-school-send-support-get-school-send-support-primary", "source_id": "get-school-send-support-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fe57d0513e5669055acbfa43", "resource_route": "resource/get-school-send-support-school-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5374c0f86cde52988c22c19e", "resource_route": "resource/get-school-send-support-school-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a698fd4c8d0ac7f24e8d5a3e", "resource_route": "resource/get-school-send-support-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/get-school-send-support-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "get-school-send-support-primary", "school-years-scotland-handoff", "school-years-wales-handoff", "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f65be95bb5e8dd17770e869c", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9ecec2312cff58bd146884a9" }, "route": "service-episode/get-school-send-support-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f6e65b1ded75edee2422dde4", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a2f935644e7b9a23043235b8", "resource_route": "resource/get-school-send-support-get-school-send-support-primary", "source_id": "get-school-send-support-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4e4156721497ad9944a1b74d", "resource_route": "resource/get-school-send-support-school-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7fc86a8285cc5f6ffec94f3f", "resource_route": "resource/get-school-send-support-school-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ced1c0e5bdbdc536180ae8de", "resource_route": "resource/get-school-send-support-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-school-send-support-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-school-send-support-primary", "school-years-scotland-handoff", "school-years-wales-handoff", "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-school-send-support", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get school SEND support\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Receive school support and outcomes** in the **School years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNavigate school support, assessment and education-plan routes for special educational needs or disability.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Children with special educational needs and disabilities](https://www.gov.uk/children-with-special-educational-needs)\n- [Scotland: School education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Receive school support and outcomes**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Receive school support and outcomes", "source": "services/get-school-send-support.md", "title": "Get school SEND support within Receive school support and outcomes" }, "process": { "id": "receive-school-support-and-outcomes", "route": "enclosing-process/receive-school-support-and-outcomes", "title": "Receive school support and outcomes" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-school-health", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-school-health", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access school health support" }, { "id": "challenge-school-exclusion", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/challenge-school-exclusion", "sequenced": false, "title": "Challenge a school exclusion" }, { "id": "report-school-safeguarding-concern", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-school-safeguarding-concern", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a school safeguarding concern" }, { "id": "sit-public-examinations", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/sit-public-examinations", "sequenced": false, "title": "Sit public examinations" }, { "id": "support-child-in-care-education", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/support-child-in-care-education", "sequenced": false, "title": "Support a child in care in education" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8ce68c091d37dad0fb6f04e2", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7138885751e4e3ea74be3ea0" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-school-send-support", "situations": [ "A child may need additional educational support because of learning difficulty or disability." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_send_support_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-school-send-support-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess a child or determine support, placement or appeal outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e4394a109cd58a24fada5eff", "resource_id": "resource:get-school-send-support:get-school-send-support-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-school-send-support-get-school-send-support-primary", "summary": "Introduces the England SEND support and education, health and care plan routes.", "title": "Children with special educational needs and disabilities", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/children-with-special-educational-needs" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/073f3e301c74aeb68ec97740", "resource_id": "resource:get-school-send-support:school-years-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-school-send-support-school-years-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish school education services and support.", "title": "School education in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a7bde70d1b1e8357c3937b0d", "resource_id": "resource:get-school-send-support:school-years-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-school-send-support-school-years-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh education services, policy and support.", "title": "Education and skills in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/education-skills" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d4963ee1fbc84b2661e2387c", "resource_id": "resource:get-school-send-support:school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-school-send-support-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland education services and support.", "title": "Education in Northern Ireland", "url": 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legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get sexual and reproductive healthcare\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Use routine and preventive healthcare** in the **Health throughout life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse a confidential local NHS route for contraception, testing, treatment or reproductive healthcare and use urgent or safeguarding services where indicated.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Sexual health services](https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/sexual-health-services/)\n- [Scotland: NHS services in Scotland](https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/)\n- [Wales: NHS 111 Wales](https://111.wales.nhs.uk/)\n- [Northern Ireland: Health and Social Care Northern Ireland online](https://online.hscni.net/)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Use routine and preventive healthcare**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Use routine and preventive healthcare", "source": "services/get-sexual-and-reproductive-healthcare.md", "title": "Get sexual and reproductive healthcare within Use routine and preventive healthcare" }, "process": { "id": "use-routine-and-preventive-healthcare", "route": "enclosing-process/use-routine-and-preventive-healthcare", "title": "Use routine and preventive healthcare" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-dental-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-dental-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access dental care" }, { "id": "access-eye-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-eye-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access eye care" }, { "id": "get-prescription", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-prescription", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a prescription" }, { "id": "get-vaccination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-vaccination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a vaccination" }, { "id": "register-with-gp", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-with-gp", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register with a GP" }, { "id": "use-pharmacy-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-pharmacy-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use pharmacy services" }, { "id": "use-screening-service", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-screening-service", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a screening service" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3a13bc3550a0a3ccba2e1a52", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/886ab64f7cab29e99b67b7cb" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-sexual-and-reproductive-healthcare", "situations": [ "A person needs sexual or reproductive health information, testing, contraception, treatment or referral." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_sexual_health_service_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-sexual-and-reproductive-healthcare-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, assess consent or safeguarding risk, or establish devolved provision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a507d07b5792eb12be6c8fac", "resource_id": "resource:get-sexual-and-reproductive-healthcare:get-sexual-and-reproductive-healthcare-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-sexual-and-reproductive-healthcare-get-sexual-and-reproductive-healthcare-primary", "summary": "Routes England users to confidential sexual health testing, treatment and clinic information.", "title": "Sexual health services", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/sexual-health-services/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_health_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "health-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, triage or establish the correct service for an individual situation." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS 24", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/212b6ff838468c74771069d0", "resource_id": "resource:get-sexual-and-reproductive-healthcare:health-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-sexual-and-reproductive-healthcare-health-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current NHS Scotland primary, community, urgent and specialist services.", "title": "NHS services in Scotland", "url": "https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/" }, { "authority_role": "wales_health_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "health-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not replace emergency services or establish that NHS England routes apply in Wales." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Ambulance Services NHS University Trust", 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action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get social care in later life\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Arrange later-life care and future decisions** in the **Later life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nAsk the responsible local care authority for an assessment and follow its care planning, financial assessment, provider and review process.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Getting a needs assessment](https://www.nhs.uk/social-care-and-support/help-from-social-services-and-charities/getting-a-needs-assessment/)\n- [Scotland: Benefits in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/benefits)\n- [Wales: Social care in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/social-care)\n- [Northern Ireland: Pensions and retirement planning](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/pensions-and-retirement-planning)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Arrange later-life care and future decisions**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Arrange later-life care and future decisions", "source": "services/get-social-care-in-later-life.md", "title": "Get social care in later life within Arrange later-life care and future decisions" }, "process": { "id": "arrange-later-life-care-and-future-decisions", "route": "enclosing-process/arrange-later-life-care-and-future-decisions", "title": "Arrange later-life care and future decisions" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access palliative or end-of-life care" }, { "id": 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"disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-social-care-needs-assessment", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get a social-care needs assessment\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Assess and deliver disability and care support** in the **Disability, care and support** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nAsk the responsible local social-care body for an assessment, receive its written outcome and use the complaint route if the process or decision is disputed.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Getting a care needs assessment](https://www.nhs.uk/social-care-and-support/help-from-social-services-and-charities/getting-a-needs-assessment/)\n- [Scotland: Health and social care in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/health-social-care)\n- [Wales: Social care in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/social-care)\n- [Northern Ireland: Caring for someone in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/caring-someone)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Assess and deliver disability and care support**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Assess and deliver disability and care support", "source": "services/get-social-care-needs-assessment.md", "title": "Get a social-care needs assessment within Assess and deliver disability and care support" }, "process": { "id": "assess-and-deliver-disability-and-care-support", "route": "enclosing-process/assess-and-deliver-disability-and-care-support", "title": "Assess and deliver disability and care support" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-disability-living-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-disability-living-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim disability living support" }, { "id": "get-carers-assessment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-carers-assessment", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a carer's assessment" }, { "id": "get-disability-home-adaptation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-disability-home-adaptation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a disability home adaptation" }, { "id": "get-residential-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-residential-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get residential care" }, { "id": "receive-direct-payments", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-direct-payments", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive direct payments" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dc5a6f81764aa46af86bf44d", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/50d2586d499523f0f79e6ed1" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-social-care-needs-assessment", "situations": [ "A person may need support with daily living, safety, equipment, personal care or participation." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_local_social_care_assessment_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-social-care-needs-assessment-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess a person, decide eligibility, identify local provision or establish devolved law." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f43aa6d893572d780b291085", "resource_id": "resource:get-social-care-needs-assessment:get-social-care-needs-assessment-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-social-care-needs-assessment-get-social-care-needs-assessment-primary", "summary": "Explains England local-authority needs assessments, outcomes, financial assessment and complaints.", "title": "Getting a care needs assessment", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/social-care-and-support/help-from-social-services-and-charities/getting-a-needs-assessment/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine eligibility, local provision, capacity, safeguarding action or redress." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e617cbb583807570772c6dc3", "resource_id": "resource:get-social-care-needs-assessment:disability-care-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-social-care-needs-assessment-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish disability, care, capacity, support and benefit services.", "title": "Health and social care in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/health-social-care" }, { "authority_role": "wales_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify an individual local authority route or decide eligibility or safeguarding action." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d2d81028e030e54b3412cb34", "resource_id": "resource:get-social-care-needs-assessment:disability-care-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-social-care-needs-assessment-disability-care-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh social-care policy and applicable local service information.", "title": "Social care in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/social-care" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify every trust service or decide eligibility, capacity or safeguarding action." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4760591c0c16534aac32bd56", "resource_id": 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"get-state-pension-forecast-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-state-pension-forecast", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get a State Pension forecast\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Secure later-life income and mobility** in the **Later life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the official forecast service, review the contribution record and follow its correction or voluntary-contribution handoffs where relevant.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Check your State Pension forecast](https://www.gov.uk/check-state-pension)\n- [Scotland: Check your State Pension forecast](https://www.gov.uk/check-state-pension)\n- [Wales: Check your State Pension forecast](https://www.gov.uk/check-state-pension)\n- [Northern Ireland: Check your State Pension forecast](https://www.gov.uk/check-state-pension)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Secure later-life income and mobility**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Secure later-life income and mobility", "source": "services/get-state-pension-forecast.md", "title": "Get a State Pension forecast within Secure later-life income and mobility" }, "process": { "id": "secure-later-life-income-and-mobility", "route": "enclosing-process/secure-later-life-income-and-mobility", "title": "Secure later-life income and mobility" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-attendance-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-attendance-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Attendance Allowance" }, { "id": "claim-pension-credit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-pension-credit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Pension Credit" }, { "id": "claim-state-pension", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-state-pension", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim State Pension" }, { "id": "manage-workplace-pension-in-retirement", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/manage-workplace-pension-in-retirement", "sequenced": false, "title": "Manage a workplace pension in retirement" }, { "id": "use-older-person-concessionary-travel", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-older-person-concessionary-travel", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use older-person concessionary travel" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a73947c951db2738cceed3bc", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7ee52a513362d71307dff2dc" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", 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"resource/get-state-pension-forecast-get-state-pension-forecast-primary", "summary": "Provides the current forecast route and National Insurance record handoffs.", "title": "Check your State Pension forecast", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/check-state-pension" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Get a State Pension forecast", "user_needs": [ "Understand that a forecast is not a guarantee and may require record correction or advice." ] }, { "aliases": [ "SSP from employer", "sick pay when unable to work" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "get-statutory-sick-pay-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "get-statutory-sick-pay-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": 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"organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5c942fe67a55af1ad55ed26d", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fb8fe5dc7fd0bb1ac63ec40e", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/97468968a362046f32ff5005", "resource_route": "resource/get-statutory-sick-pay-get-statutory-sick-pay-primary", "source_id": "get-statutory-sick-pay-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b734b54c8568ab9dea537bda", "resource_route": "resource/get-statutory-sick-pay-employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6a48ad80f14155f8b8fd6a74", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7e6f20abcb9b2a2e1247a7d1" }, "route": "service-episode/get-statutory-sick-pay-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4b7cf25cbf1ddc7194cd518c", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fca17faf01d83487738f7b64", "resource_route": "resource/get-statutory-sick-pay-get-statutory-sick-pay-primary", "source_id": "get-statutory-sick-pay-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fc76f67042324a920c4685e6", "resource_route": "resource/get-statutory-sick-pay-employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-statutory-sick-pay-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-statutory-sick-pay-primary", "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-statutory-sick-pay", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get Statutory Sick Pay\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish employment terms, pay and leave** in the **Employment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nGive required sickness evidence and use employer, HMRC or benefit handoffs when payment is refused or ends.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Statutory Sick Pay](https://www.gov.uk/statutory-sick-pay)\n- [Scotland: Statutory Sick Pay](https://www.gov.uk/statutory-sick-pay)\n- [Wales: Statutory Sick Pay](https://www.gov.uk/statutory-sick-pay)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish employment terms, pay and leave**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish employment terms, pay and leave", "source": "services/get-statutory-sick-pay.md", "title": "Get Statutory Sick Pay within Establish employment terms, pay and leave" }, "process": { "id": "establish-employment-terms-pay-and-leave", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-employment-terms-pay-and-leave", "title": "Establish employment terms, pay and leave" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "check-employment-status", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-employment-status", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check employment status" }, { "id": "join-workplace-pension", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/join-workplace-pension", "sequenced": false, "title": "Join a workplace pension" }, { "id": "pay-paye-and-national-insurance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/pay-paye-and-national-insurance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Pay PAYE and National Insurance" }, { "id": "receive-national-minimum-wage", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-national-minimum-wage", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive the National Minimum Wage" }, { "id": "receive-written-employment-particulars", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-written-employment-particulars", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive written employment particulars" }, { "id": "take-parental-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-parental-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take parental leave" }, { "id": "take-statutory-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-statutory-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take statutory leave" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d8d39233535750ed8d2201de", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b32394477423511e7e6f4fe4" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-statutory-sick-pay", "situations": [ "An employee cannot work because of sickness and needs to check statutory pay." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_statutory_sick_pay_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-statutory-sick-pay-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose illness or decide employment status, eligibility or amount." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Work and Pensions", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/33e54f40ffbc290f7ea9fbc8", "resource_id": "resource:get-statutory-sick-pay:get-statutory-sick-pay-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-statutory-sick-pay-get-statutory-sick-pay-primary", "summary": "Explains Great Britain SSP eligibility, evidence and employer-payment routes.", "title": "Statutory Sick Pay", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/statutory-sick-pay" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_employment_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain employment guidance does not establish Northern Ireland law or procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 1, 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"The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-student-finance-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-student-finance-primary", "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-student-finance", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get student finance\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter and fund post-school study** in the **Further education, university and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSelect the correct national student-finance system and follow application, evidence and payment handoffs.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Student finance](https://www.gov.uk/student-finance)\n- [Scotland: Further and higher education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Further and higher education in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Higher education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education/higher-education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter and fund post-school study**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter and fund post-school study", "source": "services/get-student-finance.md", "title": "Get student finance within Enter and fund post-school study" }, "process": { "id": "enter-and-fund-post-school-study", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-and-fund-post-school-study", "title": "Enter and fund post-school study" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-adult-skills-training", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-adult-skills-training", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access adult skills training" }, { "id": "apply-for-further-education-course", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-further-education-course", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for a further education course" }, { "id": "apply-to-university", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-to-university", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply to university" }, { "id": "arrange-student-accommodation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-student-accommodation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange student accommodation" }, { "id": "claim-student-council-tax-disregard", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-student-council-tax-disregard", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim a student council tax disregard" }, { "id": "get-disabled-students-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-disabled-students-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Disabled Students' Allowance" }, { "id": "register-with-health-services-as-student", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-with-health-services-as-student", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register with health services as a student" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d6ff6fd2cd91f04f8f85a65a", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c840127bf7235da97c72604b" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-student-finance", "situations": [ "A student needs help with tuition fees or living costs for an eligible course." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_student_finance_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "get-student-finance-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not calculate eligibility or amount and does not establish devolved finance rules." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4149af2a3a65358a8b529a81", "resource_id": "resource:get-student-finance:get-student-finance-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-student-finance-get-student-finance-primary", "summary": "Routes students to the current England finance application, evidence and repayment information.", "title": "Student finance", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/student-finance" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_post_school_study_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a course, funding, admission or research decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, 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}, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f6c39e53b7e5c1ea1a46db2f", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/987aee5839eeecf628e71015", "resource_route": "resource/get-travel-vaccination-get-travel-vaccination-primary", "source_id": "get-travel-vaccination-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/get-travel-vaccination-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "get-travel-vaccination-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-travel-vaccination", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get a travel vaccination\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Prepare for international travel** in the **Holidays, volunteering and living overseas** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck destination and personal clinical advice early, contact an appropriate health service and follow its assessment, timing and charge information.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Travel vaccinations](https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/travel-vaccinations/)\n- [Scotland: Travel vaccinations](https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/travel-vaccinations/)\n- [Wales: Travel vaccinations](https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/travel-vaccinations/)\n- [Northern Ireland: Travel vaccinations](https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/travel-vaccinations/)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Prepare for international travel**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Prepare for international travel", "source": "services/get-travel-vaccination.md", "title": "Get a travel vaccination within Prepare for international travel" }, "process": { "id": "prepare-for-international-travel", "route": "enclosing-process/prepare-for-international-travel", "title": "Prepare for international travel" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "buy-travel-insurance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/buy-travel-insurance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Buy travel insurance" }, { "id": "check-entry-requirements", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-entry-requirements", 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"health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "get-vaccination", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get a vaccination\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Use routine and preventive healthcare** in the **Health throughout life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck the current nation, age, risk and programme route and contact the named NHS provider for clinical assessment and vaccination.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: NHS vaccinations and when to have them](https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/)\n- [Scotland: NHS services in Scotland](https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/)\n- [Wales: NHS 111 Wales](https://111.wales.nhs.uk/)\n- [Northern Ireland: Health and Social Care Northern Ireland online](https://online.hscni.net/)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Use routine and preventive healthcare**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Use routine and preventive healthcare", "source": "services/get-vaccination.md", "title": "Get a vaccination within Use routine and preventive healthcare" }, "process": { "id": "use-routine-and-preventive-healthcare", "route": "enclosing-process/use-routine-and-preventive-healthcare", "title": "Use routine and preventive healthcare" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-dental-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-dental-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access dental care" }, { "id": "access-eye-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-eye-care", "sequenced": false, 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snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get victim or witness support\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Report emergencies, crime and harm** in the **Police and legal services** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the relevant independent or commissioned support route and coordinate police, court, compensation and safeguarding needs.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Get support as a victim of crime](https://www.gov.uk/get-support-as-a-victim-of-crime)\n- [Scotland: Crime, justice and the law in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/crime-justice-law)\n- [Wales: Get support as a victim of crime](https://www.gov.uk/get-support-as-a-victim-of-crime)\n- [Northern Ireland: Crime, justice and the law in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/crime-justice-and-law)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Report emergencies, crime and harm**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Report emergencies, crime and harm", "source": "services/get-victim-or-witness-support.md", "title": "Get victim or witness support within Report emergencies, crime and harm" }, "process": { "id": "report-emergencies-crime-and-harm", "route": "enclosing-process/report-emergencies-crime-and-harm", "title": "Report emergencies, crime and harm" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "call-emergency-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/call-emergency-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Call emergency services" }, { "id": "report-antisocial-behaviour", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": 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release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Get workplace health and safety protection\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Protect safety, collective rights and redress** in the **Employment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nRaise a workplace risk through employer and regulator routes while preserving urgent and protected-disclosure boundaries.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Your health and safety at work](https://www.hse.gov.uk/simple-health-safety/law/)\n- [Scotland: Your health and safety at work](https://www.hse.gov.uk/simple-health-safety/law/)\n- [Wales: Your health and safety at work](https://www.hse.gov.uk/simple-health-safety/law/)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Protect safety, collective rights and redress**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Protect safety, collective rights and redress", "source": "services/get-workplace-health-and-safety-protection.md", "title": "Get workplace health and safety protection within Protect safety, collective rights and redress" }, "process": { "id": "protect-safety-collective-rights-and-redress", "route": "enclosing-process/protect-safety-collective-rights-and-redress", "title": "Protect safety, collective rights and redress" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "bring-employment-dispute", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/bring-employment-dispute", "sequenced": false, "title": "Bring an employment dispute" }, { "id": "join-or-use-trade-union", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/join-or-use-trade-union", "sequenced": false, "title": "Join or use a trade union" }, { "id": "report-workplace-injury", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-workplace-injury", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a workplace injury" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9e86270a161c104b8aa95ecb", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/871178de327387fcea6913eb" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/get-workplace-health-and-safety-protection", "situations": [ "A worker or other person is concerned about workplace health or safety." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_workplace_safety_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": 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"authority_role": "northern_ireland_employment_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain employment guidance does not establish Northern Ireland law or procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ff0a8c2ee14fb45c695a8d00", "resource_id": "resource:get-workplace-health-and-safety-protection:employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/get-workplace-health-and-safety-protection-employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland employment rights and services.", "title": "Employment in Northern Ireland", "url": 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"output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/11e8acdba2c8cf4c68f1c19e", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fb10c03243cc47cd050ede4c", "resource_route": "resource/identify-driver-after-road-offence-identify-driver-after-road-offence-primary", "source_id": "identify-driver-after-road-offence-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/030a06034fdbf66934f25360", "resource_route": "resource/identify-driver-after-road-offence-transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "source_id": 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"id": "identify-driver-after-road-offence", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Identify the driver after a road offence\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Respond to road notices and penalties** in the **Transport enforcement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nPreserve the information request and respond through the issuing police or enforcement route, raising inability or error through its stated boundary.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Speeding penalties](https://www.gov.uk/speeding-penalties)\n- [Scotland: Road safety, parking tickets, fines and bans in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport/penalty-points-fines)\n- [Wales: Speeding penalties](https://www.gov.uk/speeding-penalties)\n- [Northern Ireland: Motoring offences in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/fixed-penalties-motoring-offences)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Respond to road notices and penalties**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Respond to road notices and penalties", "source": "services/identify-driver-after-road-offence.md", "title": "Identify the driver after a road offence within Respond to road notices and penalties" }, "process": { "id": "respond-to-road-notices-and-penalties", "route": "enclosing-process/respond-to-road-notices-and-penalties", "title": "Respond to road notices and penalties" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "accept-fixed-penalty", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/accept-fixed-penalty", "sequenced": false, "title": "Accept a fixed penalty" }, { "id": "attend-driver-awareness-course", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/attend-driver-awareness-course", "sequenced": false, "title": "Attend a driver awareness course" }, { "id": "challenge-private-parking-charge", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/challenge-private-parking-charge", "sequenced": false, "title": "Challenge a private parking charge" }, { "id": "manage-penalty-points", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/manage-penalty-points", "sequenced": false, "title": "Manage penalty points" }, { "id": "respond-to-council-parking-penalty", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/respond-to-council-parking-penalty", "sequenced": false, "title": "Respond to a council parking penalty" }, { "id": "respond-to-speeding-notice", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/respond-to-speeding-notice", "sequenced": false, "title": "Respond to a speeding notice" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/edd545d25cb538341b31c5dd", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0abdc338d87493e275fc0fae" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/identify-driver-after-road-offence", "situations": [ "A vehicle keeper or other recipient is asked to identify who was driving at a stated time." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_driver_identification_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "identify-driver-after-road-offence-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine who drove, notice validity, reasonable diligence or criminal liability." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Transport", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b0e9080ec0ca26f951ed5ecd", "resource_id": "resource:identify-driver-after-road-offence:identify-driver-after-road-offence-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/identify-driver-after-road-offence-identify-driver-after-road-offence-primary", "summary": "Introduces England and Wales speeding notice, driver-identification and disposal stages.", "title": "Speeding penalties", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/speeding-penalties" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transport_enforcement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine whether a notice, penalty, prosecution or appeal is valid." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ce1b7698e051aeab7db1ea3a", "resource_id": "resource:identify-driver-after-road-offence:transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/identify-driver-after-road-offence-transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish road-safety, parking, fine and driving-ban information.", "title": "Road safety, parking tickets, fines and bans in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport/penalty-points-fines" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transport_enforcement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "England, Wales and Scotland enforcement routes do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b1c28289bc8c3c45f63322d9", "resource_id": "resource:identify-driver-after-road-offence:transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/identify-driver-after-road-offence-transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland motoring-offence, penalty and court information.", "title": "Motoring offences in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/fixed-penalties-motoring-offences" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Identify the driver after a road offence", "user_needs": [ "Keep the information duty separate from accepting the alleged offence and avoid an invented time limit." ] }, { "aliases": [ "register limited company", "form company at Companies House", "create UK company" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "incorporate-company-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "incorporate-company-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "incorporate-company-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "incorporate-company-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "incorporate-company-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "incorporate-company-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "incorporate-company-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "incorporate-company-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Choose the company structure and name, identify officers and control, prepare governing information and register with Companies House.", "domain": { "id": "starting-and-running-organisation", "route": "life-course-domain/starting-and-running-organisation", "title": "Starting and running an organisation" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "Founders intend to create a company as a legal entity separate from its members.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Choose the company structure and name, identify officers and control, prepare governing information and register with Companies House.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/af9ac9a1699cba2323b4e71c", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/95849b88708eac3ebfcc39f0" }, "route": "service-episode/incorporate-company-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bcfc725273a7e631ace40d6f", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/27b38b1e3c785757d14684d3", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/50a4638633d8ca38f90b9992", "resource_route": "resource/incorporate-company-incorporate-company-primary", "source_id": "incorporate-company-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/incorporate-company-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "incorporate-company-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to incorporate a company and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Choose the company structure and name, identify officers and control, prepare governing information and register with Companies House." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/996b96c32cac89d36e5a70b9", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5b2edc2477f96fd25f3d3d27", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7001e4699a3e8547f5fa5b60", "resource_route": "resource/incorporate-company-incorporate-company-primary", "source_id": "incorporate-company-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/incorporate-company-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "incorporate-company-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bda7ddfb7e50045fae9872dc", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/617fbd93f87e453dd15ce92c" }, "route": "service-episode/incorporate-company-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6d5a7c40254a54db44645806", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1706b684856b40f2e0a217c3", "resource_route": "resource/incorporate-company-incorporate-company-primary", "source_id": "incorporate-company-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/incorporate-company-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "incorporate-company-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "incorporate-company", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Incorporate a company\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Form and register an organisation** in the **Starting and running an organisation** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nChoose the company structure and name, identify officers and control, prepare governing information and register with Companies House.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Set up a limited company](https://www.gov.uk/limited-company-formation)\n- [Scotland: Set up a limited company](https://www.gov.uk/limited-company-formation)\n- [Wales: Set up a limited company](https://www.gov.uk/limited-company-formation)\n- [Northern Ireland: Set up a limited company](https://www.gov.uk/limited-company-formation)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Form and register an organisation**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Form and register an organisation", "source": "services/incorporate-company.md", "title": "Incorporate a company within Form and register an organisation" }, "process": { "id": "form-and-register-an-organisation", "route": "enclosing-process/form-and-register-an-organisation", "title": "Form and register an organisation" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "establish-social-enterprise", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/establish-social-enterprise", "sequenced": false, "title": "Establish a social enterprise" }, { "id": "form-business-partnership", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/form-business-partnership", "sequenced": false, "title": "Form a business partnership" }, { "id": "register-as-sole-trader", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-as-sole-trader", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register as a sole trader" }, { "id": "register-business-taxes", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-business-taxes", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register business taxes" }, { "id": "register-charity", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-charity", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a charity" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bc53734f42d0315b382a9991", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b984c93a02bf5d9887df4aa7" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/incorporate-company", "situations": [ "Founders intend to create a company as a legal entity separate from its members." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_company_incorporation_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "incorporate-company-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not recommend structure, draft bespoke documents, provide advice or guarantee registration." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Companies House", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f4d1eb2df0b58a6722cd67b3", "resource_id": "resource:incorporate-company:incorporate-company-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/incorporate-company-incorporate-company-primary", "summary": "Routes UK founders through company naming, officers, control, documents and 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[ "join-or-use-trade-union-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "join-or-use-trade-union-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "join-or-use-trade-union-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Find an independent trade union and understand membership, representation and workplace-rights boundaries.", "domain": { "id": "employment", "route": 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where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Join or use a trade union\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Protect safety, collective rights and redress** in the **Employment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind an independent trade union and understand membership, representation and workplace-rights boundaries.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Join a trade union](https://www.gov.uk/join-trade-union)\n- [Scotland: Join a trade union](https://www.gov.uk/join-trade-union)\n- [Wales: Join a trade union](https://www.gov.uk/join-trade-union)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Protect safety, collective rights and redress**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Protect safety, collective rights and redress", "source": "services/join-or-use-trade-union.md", "title": "Join or use a trade union within Protect safety, collective rights and redress" }, "process": { "id": "protect-safety-collective-rights-and-redress", "route": "enclosing-process/protect-safety-collective-rights-and-redress", "title": "Protect safety, collective rights and redress" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "bring-employment-dispute", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/bring-employment-dispute", "sequenced": false, "title": "Bring an employment dispute" }, { "id": "get-workplace-health-and-safety-protection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-workplace-health-and-safety-protection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get workplace health and safety protection" }, { "id": "report-workplace-injury", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-workplace-injury", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a workplace injury" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2d3a984652da27cea7d91dc1", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fa70bc6281a4c87529a6072f" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/join-or-use-trade-union", "situations": [ "A worker wants collective representation, advice or support." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_trade_union_rights_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "join-or-use-trade-union-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": 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"jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain employment guidance does not establish Northern Ireland law or procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6a7e69b72a9941820d0db2dd", "resource_id": "resource:join-or-use-trade-union:employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/join-or-use-trade-union-employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland employment rights and services.", "title": "Employment in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Join or use a trade union", "user_needs": [ "Verify the organisation and keep public rights separate from membership decisions." ] }, { "aliases": [ 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"resource_route": "resource/join-workplace-pension-join-workplace-pension-primary", "source_id": "join-workplace-pension-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/38488de54e6396ea49037256", "resource_route": "resource/join-workplace-pension-employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/join-workplace-pension-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "join-workplace-pension-primary", "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "join-workplace-pension", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Join a workplace pension\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish employment terms, pay and leave** in the **Employment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFollow automatic-enrolment or opt-in steps and retain scheme, contribution and decision records.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Workplace pensions](https://www.gov.uk/workplace-pensions)\n- [Scotland: Workplace pensions](https://www.gov.uk/workplace-pensions)\n- [Wales: Workplace pensions](https://www.gov.uk/workplace-pensions)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish employment terms, pay and leave**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cab9540f30678173f78a5285", "resource_route": "resource/learn-to-drive-car-govuk-learn-to-drive-car", "source_id": "govuk-learn-to-drive-car" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6328542602e6d2497da63c6e", "resource_route": "resource/learn-to-drive-car-govuk-driving-test-result", "source_id": "govuk-driving-test-result" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3719dcdb144d12c08d4e9d1b", "resource_route": "resource/learn-to-drive-car-nidirect-practical-test", "source_id": "nidirect-practical-test" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The actual decision, result or missing-evidence notice." }, "route": "service-step/learn-to-drive-car-wrong-jurisdiction-missing-evidence-or-test-failure-stop-correct-and-re-enter", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Do not infer entitlement or a changed result." }, "source_ids": [ 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It has separate\n[Great Britain](generated/browser/services/great-britain-learn-to-drive-car.html) and\n[Northern Ireland](generated/browser/services/northern-ireland-learn-to-drive-car.html) implementations.\nTheir providers, residency conditions, learner rules, evidence and licence\nhandoffs are not treated as interchangeable.\n\nAn optional [driving instructor](generated/browser/organisations/driving-instructor.html), a\nsuitable vehicle and applicable [motor insurance](generated/browser/organisations/motor-insurer.html)\nare private dependencies around public licensing and testing. Neither buying a\nlesson nor holding a policy establishes a public entitlement.\n\nThe [ontology module](generated/browser/ontology/learning-to-drive-speeding.html) and\n[synthetic journey](generated/browser/journeys/learning-to-drive-speeding.html) preserve the\nordered evidence outputs without deciding whether a real person may drive.", "process_context": "Move into independent mobility, health and care", "source": "services/learn-to-drive-car.md", "title": "Learn to drive a car within Move into independent mobility, health and care" }, "process": { "id": "move-into-independent-mobility-health-and-care", "route": "enclosing-process/move-into-independent-mobility-health-and-care", "title": "Move into independent mobility, health and care" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-child-trust-fund", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-child-trust-fund", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access a Child Trust Fund" }, { "id": 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"https://www.gov.uk/book-theory-test" }, { "authority_role": "great_britain_practical_test_outcome", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "govuk-driving-test-result", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Great Britain" ], "limitations": [ "does not predict a test result; court appeal concerns examiner compliance with law rather than merits reassessment" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency", "position": 4, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ffec473da54e6f388f355e6a", "resource_id": "resource:learn-to-drive-car:govuk-driving-test-result", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/learn-to-drive-car-govuk-driving-test-result", "summary": "car practical-test result, licence handoff and test-appeal boundary in Great Britain", "title": "Car practical-test result, licence handoff and test-appeal boundary in Great Britain", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/driving-test/driving-test-faults-result" }, { "authority_role": "great_britain_full_licence_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "govuk-full-driving-licence", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Great Britain" ], "limitations": [ "exceptions and application identity conditions remain on the live service" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency", "position": 5, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/619dcb36e9f0037e60ac1399", "resource_id": "resource:learn-to-drive-car:govuk-full-driving-licence", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/learn-to-drive-car-govuk-full-driving-licence", "summary": "Great Britain full-licence issue after a practical test pass", "title": "Great Britain full-licence issue after a practical test pass", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-your-full-driving-licence" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_licensing_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "nidirect-provisional-licence", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "not a DVLA Great Britain application; identity and health decisions remain with DVA" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Driver and Vehicle Agency", "position": 6, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c0ffd239f75d90253fee244b", "resource_id": "resource:learn-to-drive-car:nidirect-provisional-licence", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/learn-to-drive-car-nidirect-provisional-licence", "summary": "first provisional driving licence application in Northern Ireland", "title": "First provisional driving licence application in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/services/apply-provisional-driving-licence-online" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_learning_rules", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "nidirect-learner-rules", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "other categories and individual entitlement decisions remain outside this slice" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Department for Infrastructure Northern Ireland", "position": 7, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8d3529a2b09744483acf5c67", "resource_id": "resource:learn-to-drive-car:nidirect-learner-rules", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/learn-to-drive-car-nidirect-learner-rules", "summary": "Northern Ireland learner supervision, vehicle, insurance, plate and speed conditions", "title": "Northern Ireland learner supervision, vehicle, insurance, plate and speed conditions", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/minimum-ages-and-rules-learner-drivers-and-riders" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_theory_test_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "nidirect-theory-test", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "booking availability and individual exemptions remain live-service questions" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Driver and Vehicle Agency", "position": 8, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0a508b8a92e684eb7430a0b8", "resource_id": "resource:learn-to-drive-car:nidirect-theory-test", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/learn-to-drive-car-nidirect-theory-test", "summary": "Northern Ireland car theory-test sequence and residency boundary", "title": "Northern Ireland car theory-test sequence and residency boundary", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/about-driving-theory-test" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_practical_test_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "nidirect-practical-test", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "does not predict a result or replace booking instructions" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Driver and Vehicle Agency", "position": 9, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2ecc9467fb8d3ef3078cceb9", "resource_id": "resource:learn-to-drive-car:nidirect-practical-test", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/learn-to-drive-car-nidirect-practical-test", "summary": "Northern Ireland car practical-test content and result handling", "title": "Northern Ireland car practical-test content and result handling", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/about-practical-test-cars" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_full_licence_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "nidirect-claim-test-pass", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "eligibility for automatic upgrade remains case-specific" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Driver and Vehicle Agency", "position": 10, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/110ffa145b25c16b8bb8ebcb", "resource_id": "resource:learn-to-drive-car:nidirect-claim-test-pass", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/learn-to-drive-car-nidirect-claim-test-pass", "summary": "Northern Ireland test-pass exchange and licence upgrade", "title": "Northern Ireland test-pass exchange and licence upgrade", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/claiming-driving-test-pass" 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"not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9747af1ee10bc4a926af10bf", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3d092646c89f003ded9aff6e", "resource_route": "resource/license-intellectual-property-license-intellectual-property-primary", "source_id": "license-intellectual-property-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/license-intellectual-property-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "license-intellectual-property-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "license-intellectual-property", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# License intellectual property\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Protect and register intellectual property** in the **Ideas, creativity and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nConfirm ownership and scope, define the rights and territory to be licensed and obtain advice on terms, registration, payment and enforcement.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Licensing intellectual property](https://www.gov.uk/licensing-intellectual-property)\n- [Scotland: Licensing intellectual property](https://www.gov.uk/licensing-intellectual-property)\n- [Wales: Licensing intellectual property](https://www.gov.uk/licensing-intellectual-property)\n- [Northern Ireland: Licensing intellectual property](https://www.gov.uk/licensing-intellectual-property)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Protect and register intellectual property**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Protect and register intellectual property", "source": "services/license-intellectual-property.md", "title": "License intellectual property within Protect and register intellectual property" }, "process": { "id": "protect-and-register-intellectual-property", "route": "enclosing-process/protect-and-register-intellectual-property", "title": "Protect and register intellectual property" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-patent", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-patent", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for a patent" }, { "id": "manage-copyright", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/manage-copyright", "sequenced": false, "title": "Manage copyright" }, { "id": "protect-confidential-information", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/protect-confidential-information", "sequenced": false, "title": "Protect confidential information" }, { "id": "register-design", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-design", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a design" }, { "id": "register-trade-mark", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-trade-mark", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a trade mark" }, { "id": "request-patent-search-and-examination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/request-patent-search-and-examination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Request patent search and examination" }, { "id": "search-prior-art", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/search-prior-art", "sequenced": false, "title": "Search prior art" } 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"assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b046b1fd6b6cc8f7392a650f", "resource_route": "resource/license-taxi-or-private-hire-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ce82aae7d7f3e217faa3516d", "resource_route": "resource/license-taxi-or-private-hire-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/license-taxi-or-private-hire-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "license-taxi-or-private-hire-primary", "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "license-taxi-or-private-hire", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# License a taxi or private-hire service\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Obtain accessible and community mobility** in the **Public and private transport** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nApply to the responsible licensing authority for the driver, vehicle or operator role and retain checks, conditions and appeal information.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Taxi driver licences](https://www.gov.uk/taxi-driver-licence)\n- [Scotland: Transport and travel in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport)\n- [Wales: Transport in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/transport)\n- [Northern Ireland: Travel, transport and roads in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/travel-transport-and-roads)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Obtain accessible and community mobility**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Obtain accessible and community mobility", "source": "services/license-taxi-or-private-hire.md", "title": "License a taxi or private-hire service within Obtain accessible and community mobility" }, "process": { "id": "obtain-accessible-and-community-mobility", "route": "enclosing-process/obtain-accessible-and-community-mobility", "title": "Obtain accessible and community mobility" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-blue-badge", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-blue-badge", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a Blue Badge" }, { "id": "obtain-concessionary-travel", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-concessionary-travel", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain concessionary travel" }, { "id": "plan-accessible-public-transport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/plan-accessible-public-transport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Plan accessible public transport" }, { "id": "use-community-transport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-community-transport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use community transport" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6476ac45c216087652650e99", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8c7fe5fbcddc739024ff83c0" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/license-taxi-or-private-hire", "situations": [ "A person or business wants to drive, operate or license a taxi or private-hire vehicle." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_taxi_driver_licence_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "license-taxi-or-private-hire-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not cover every operator or vehicle licence, decide fitness or publish local conditions and fees." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/638f0e41b5dfaff05b8b3d56", "resource_id": "resource:license-taxi-or-private-hire:license-taxi-or-private-hire-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/license-taxi-or-private-hire-license-taxi-or-private-hire-primary", "summary": "Routes England and Wales applicants to the relevant council taxi-driver licensing service.", "title": "Taxi driver licences", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/taxi-driver-licence" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England concession, permit or operator-licensing route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1d4713be6e5c1bb69f11ceca", "resource_id": "resource:license-taxi-or-private-hire:public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/license-taxi-or-private-hire-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish public, accessible, local and road-transport services.", "title": "Transport and 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authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "locate-or-prove-will-primary", "death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/79e350729d3e4691dc446ea0", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/edc5733edc1beea470687359" }, "route": "service-episode/locate-or-prove-will-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8f0d83a1c56a488ffffe6304", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d0283e71a0b08d226a074822", "resource_route": "resource/locate-or-prove-will-locate-or-prove-will-primary", "source_id": "locate-or-prove-will-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/58dace1d2b6e4a7b628405da", "resource_route": "resource/locate-or-prove-will-death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "death-bereavement-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c48be8d042b3cdf9bbad9870", "resource_route": "resource/locate-or-prove-will-death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/locate-or-prove-will-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "locate-or-prove-will-primary", "death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "locate-or-prove-will", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Locate or prove a will\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Identify and administer an estate** in the **Death and bereavement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSearch personal, solicitor, storage and probate sources, preserve competing documents and obtain legal advice where validity, interpretation or family rights are disputed.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Search probate records for documents and wills](https://www.gov.uk/search-will-probate)\n- [Scotland: Births, deaths and family in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family)\n- [Wales: Search probate records for documents and wills](https://www.gov.uk/search-will-probate)\n- [Northern Ireland: What to do when someone dies](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/births-deaths-baby-loss-marriages-and-civil-partnerships/death-and)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Identify and administer an estate**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Identify and administer an estate", "source": "services/locate-or-prove-will.md", "title": "Locate or prove a will within Identify and administer an estate" }, "process": { "id": "identify-and-administer-an-estate", "route": "enclosing-process/identify-and-administer-an-estate", "title": "Identify and administer an estate" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "administer-an-estate", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/administer-an-estate", "sequenced": false, "title": "Administer an estate" }, { "id": "notify-private-organisations-after-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/notify-private-organisations-after-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Notify private organisations after death" }, { "id": "pay-inheritance-tax", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/pay-inheritance-tax", "sequenced": false, "title": "Pay Inheritance Tax" }, { "id": "settle-estate-debts", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/settle-estate-debts", "sequenced": false, "title": "Settle estate debts" }, { "id": "update-property-records-after-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/update-property-records-after-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Update property records after death" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3102962694e54382b336c2b5", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/761e15751370aa169962ba83" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/locate-or-prove-will", "situations": [ "Those dealing with an estate need to establish whether a will exists and which instrument governs." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_probate_record_search", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "locate-or-prove-will-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not locate every unproved will, establish Scottish or Northern Ireland procedure or decide validity and interpretation." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "HM Courts and Tribunals Service", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2253ad21572703a927980aa0", "resource_id": "resource:locate-or-prove-will:locate-or-prove-will-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/locate-or-prove-will-locate-or-prove-will-primary", "summary": "Provides the England and Wales public search and document-order route for probate records and wills.", "title": "Search probate records for documents and wills", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/search-will-probate" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_death_bereavement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide cause, investigation, informant status, succession, tax or individual entitlement." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/57b9bbbfe54326d1e0c615e6", "resource_id": "resource:locate-or-prove-will:death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/locate-or-prove-will-death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes bereaved people to current Scottish registration, funeral, support and estate information.", "title": "Births, deaths and family in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_after_death_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide cause, investigation, informant status, succession, tax or entitlement." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a6c07059d15f330ca68a402b", "resource_id": "resource:locate-or-prove-will:death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/locate-or-prove-will-death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes bereaved people to current Northern Ireland registration, funeral, notification, benefit and estate information.", "title": "What to do when someone dies", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/births-deaths-baby-loss-marriages-and-civil-partnerships/death-and" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Locate or prove a will", "user_needs": [ "Separate finding a public probate record from legally proving a will." ] }, { "aliases": [ "register to vote", "update electoral register", "electoral roll address change" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "maintain-electoral-registration-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "maintain-electoral-registration-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "maintain-electoral-registration-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "maintain-electoral-registration-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "maintain-electoral-registration-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "maintain-electoral-registration-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "maintain-electoral-registration-primary", "provider": 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"supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "maintain-electoral-registration-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to maintain electoral registration and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the current registration service when eligible and update the relevant electoral-registration office after changes that affect the record." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d0172c116c27a19cdc1f3323", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/125f0d1f0541d68374b628e8", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a26444c8048a0ac676390989", "resource_route": "resource/maintain-electoral-registration-maintain-electoral-registration-primary", "source_id": "maintain-electoral-registration-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/982c9dcbd8ed1ce176b4a6ce" }, "route": "service-episode/maintain-electoral-registration-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bf85d7674aabd9ebc51c0f23", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8fcba0e196399a3955ee6150", "resource_route": "resource/maintain-electoral-registration-maintain-electoral-registration-primary", "source_id": "maintain-electoral-registration-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/maintain-electoral-registration-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "maintain-electoral-registration-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "maintain-electoral-registration", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Maintain electoral registration\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Participate in democracy and exercise information rights** in the **Citizenship, democracy and rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the current registration service when eligible and update the relevant electoral-registration office after changes that affect the record.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Register to vote](https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote)\n- [Scotland: Register to vote](https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote)\n- [Wales: Register to vote](https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote)\n- [Northern Ireland: Register to vote](https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Participate in democracy and exercise information rights**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Participate in democracy and exercise information rights", "source": "services/maintain-electoral-registration.md", "title": "Maintain electoral registration within Participate in democracy and exercise information rights" }, "process": { "id": "participate-in-democracy-and-exercise-information-rights", "route": "enclosing-process/participate-in-democracy-and-exercise-information-rights", "title": "Participate in democracy and exercise information rights" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "contact-elected-representative", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/contact-elected-representative", "sequenced": false, "title": 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consultation" }, { "id": "stand-for-election", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/stand-for-election", "sequenced": false, "title": "Stand for election" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/141545183923adf26944f15f", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/97b0f3e8b2003e5c1f03818e" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/maintain-electoral-registration", "situations": [ "A person wants to register, update details or confirm the responsible electoral-registration route." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_electoral_registration_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "maintain-electoral-registration-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not 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snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Make an advance care plan\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Arrange later-life care and future decisions** in the **Later life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nDiscuss future wishes and clinical or legal instruments with the responsible health team and advisers, document them and ensure relevant people can find them.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Why plan ahead for end of life care?](https://www.nhs.uk/tests-and-treatments/end-of-life-care/planning-ahead/why-plan-ahead/)\n- [Scotland: Benefits in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/benefits)\n- [Wales: Social care in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/social-care)\n- [Northern Ireland: Pensions and retirement planning](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/pensions-and-retirement-planning)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Arrange later-life care and future decisions**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Arrange later-life care and future decisions", "source": "services/make-advance-care-plan.md", "title": "Make an advance care plan within Arrange later-life care and future decisions" }, "process": { "id": "arrange-later-life-care-and-future-decisions", "route": "enclosing-process/arrange-later-life-care-and-future-decisions", "title": "Arrange later-life care and future decisions" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access palliative or end-of-life care" }, { "id": "get-carer-support-in-later-life", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-carer-support-in-later-life", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get carer support in later life" }, { "id": "get-housing-adaptation-in-later-life", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-housing-adaptation-in-later-life", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a housing adaptation in later life" }, { "id": "get-social-care-in-later-life", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-social-care-in-later-life", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get social care in later life" }, { "id": "make-lasting-power-of-attorney", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/make-lasting-power-of-attorney", "sequenced": false, "title": "Make a lasting power of attorney" }, { "id": "make-will", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/make-will", "sequenced": false, "title": "Make a will" } ], "relationship_assertions": { 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"jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "make-freedom-of-information-request-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "make-freedom-of-information-request-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Identify the public authority, describe the recorded information sought and use its review and commissioner route if access is refused.", "domain": { "id": "citizenship-democracy-and-rights", "route": "life-course-domain/citizenship-democracy-and-rights", "title": "Citizenship, democracy and rights" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person wants recorded information held by a public authority.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Identify the public authority, describe the recorded information sought and use 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"supported", "summary": "Identify the public authority, describe the recorded information sought and use its review and commissioner route if access is refused." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/43e39d0e1fbd5a927150fd6a", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fd696e045eb4323d8a856420", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7e7af0ebdc1cd540e4b0906a", "resource_route": "resource/make-freedom-of-information-request-make-freedom-of-information-request-primary", "source_id": "make-freedom-of-information-request-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/make-freedom-of-information-request-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "make-freedom-of-information-request-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c48e20a92a75d5d3280da4c6", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1cc4a4184364c4221b18758e" }, "route": "service-episode/make-freedom-of-information-request-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dc24fc829347392e3bb569d0", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cf1e7286d3fe4b3cbb360d8e", "resource_route": "resource/make-freedom-of-information-request-make-freedom-of-information-request-primary", "source_id": "make-freedom-of-information-request-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/make-freedom-of-information-request-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "make-freedom-of-information-request-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "make-freedom-of-information-request", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Make a freedom of information request\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Participate in democracy and exercise information rights** in the **Citizenship, democracy and rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the public authority, describe the recorded information sought and use its review and commissioner route if access is refused.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: How to make a freedom of information request](https://www.gov.uk/make-a-freedom-of-information-request)\n- [Scotland: How to make a freedom of information request](https://www.gov.uk/make-a-freedom-of-information-request)\n- [Wales: How to make a freedom of information request](https://www.gov.uk/make-a-freedom-of-information-request)\n- [Northern Ireland: How to make a freedom of information request](https://www.gov.uk/make-a-freedom-of-information-request)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Participate in democracy and exercise information rights**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Participate in democracy and exercise information rights", "source": "services/make-freedom-of-information-request.md", "title": "Make a freedom of information request within Participate in democracy and exercise information rights" }, "process": { "id": "participate-in-democracy-and-exercise-information-rights", "route": "enclosing-process/participate-in-democracy-and-exercise-information-rights", "title": "Participate in democracy and exercise information rights" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "contact-elected-representative", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/contact-elected-representative", "sequenced": false, "title": "Contact an elected representative" }, { "id": "exercise-data-protection-rights", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/exercise-data-protection-rights", "sequenced": false, "title": "Exercise data-protection rights" }, { "id": "maintain-electoral-registration", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/maintain-electoral-registration", "sequenced": false, "title": "Maintain electoral registration" }, { "id": "perform-jury-service", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/perform-jury-service", "sequenced": false, "title": "Perform jury service" }, { "id": "petition-government", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/petition-government", "sequenced": false, "title": "Petition government" }, { "id": "respond-to-public-consultation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/respond-to-public-consultation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Respond to a public consultation" }, { "id": "stand-for-election", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/stand-for-election", "sequenced": false, "title": "Stand for election" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fcf000ac7d39143b2c23aa38", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b147d0271e406222ca2a2df9" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/make-freedom-of-information-request", "situations": [ "A person wants recorded information held by a public authority." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_freedom_of_information_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "make-freedom-of-information-request-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify every covered authority, decide exemptions or obtain information on a person's behalf." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Cabinet Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b42c8d08b666d589c27e4196", "resource_id": "resource:make-freedom-of-information-request:make-freedom-of-information-request-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/make-freedom-of-information-request-make-freedom-of-information-request-primary", "summary": "Explains UK public-authority request, response, review and regulator handoffs.", "title": "How to make a freedom of information request", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/make-a-freedom-of-information-request" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Make a freedom of information request", "user_needs": [ "Distinguish FOI, environmental-information, personal-data and routine-publication routes." ] }, { "aliases": [ "appoint attorney for future", 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"topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "make-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Choose the applicable legal instrument and attorneys, complete and register it while the donor can make the decision and obtain advice for conflicts or complexity.", "domain": { "id": "later-life", "route": "life-course-domain/later-life", "title": "Later life" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person wants trusted people to act if they later cannot make specified decisions.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", 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"Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b7c4615d29b384eb40ebb2cd", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e5b9fc6367cfd1b1641d96c5", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/decfded72b29bb9e60e0be3a", "resource_route": "resource/make-lasting-power-of-attorney-make-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary", "source_id": "make-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c21a6891b1caeb3858591d3d", "resource_route": "resource/make-lasting-power-of-attorney-later-life-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "later-life-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/38b299697d4c87dfadaf490e", "resource_route": "resource/make-lasting-power-of-attorney-later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/make-lasting-power-of-attorney-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "make-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary", "later-life-scotland-handoff", "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to make a lasting power of attorney and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Choose the applicable legal instrument and attorneys, complete and register it while the donor can make the decision and obtain advice for conflicts or complexity." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c8811e083999eb3111055297", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/affe5c4f37726ee31e52f936", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a4dec5519cf379b2d1f06978", "resource_route": "resource/make-lasting-power-of-attorney-make-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary", "source_id": "make-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fadddad497ce21d5d0b86860", "resource_route": "resource/make-lasting-power-of-attorney-later-life-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "later-life-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/98db0c648251f5d96366a9a1", "resource_route": "resource/make-lasting-power-of-attorney-later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/make-lasting-power-of-attorney-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "make-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary", "later-life-scotland-handoff", "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9c7f5a1d78200be7dbe377b3", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/946cbc796b16e00d4113424a" }, "route": "service-episode/make-lasting-power-of-attorney-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/327f738200e1e879594a7003", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/df15f2be8108570d98b2a43d", "resource_route": "resource/make-lasting-power-of-attorney-make-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary", "source_id": "make-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2094f2713b9fadfb97982daa", "resource_route": "resource/make-lasting-power-of-attorney-later-life-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "later-life-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ef924e1d52181536dde1b870", "resource_route": "resource/make-lasting-power-of-attorney-later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/make-lasting-power-of-attorney-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "make-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary", "later-life-scotland-handoff", "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "make-lasting-power-of-attorney", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Make a lasting power of attorney\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Arrange later-life care and future decisions** in the **Later life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nChoose the applicable legal instrument and attorneys, complete and register it while the donor can make the decision and obtain advice for conflicts or complexity.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Make, register or end a lasting power of attorney](https://www.gov.uk/power-of-attorney)\n- [Scotland: Benefits in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/benefits)\n- [Wales: Make, register or end a lasting power of attorney](https://www.gov.uk/power-of-attorney)\n- [Northern Ireland: Pensions and retirement planning](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/pensions-and-retirement-planning)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Arrange later-life care and future decisions**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Arrange later-life care and future decisions", "source": "services/make-lasting-power-of-attorney.md", "title": "Make a lasting power of attorney within Arrange later-life care and future decisions" }, "process": { "id": "arrange-later-life-care-and-future-decisions", "route": "enclosing-process/arrange-later-life-care-and-future-decisions", "title": "Arrange later-life care and future decisions" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access palliative or end-of-life care" }, { "id": "get-carer-support-in-later-life", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-carer-support-in-later-life", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get carer support in later life" }, { "id": "get-housing-adaptation-in-later-life", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-housing-adaptation-in-later-life", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a housing adaptation in later life" }, { "id": "get-social-care-in-later-life", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-social-care-in-later-life", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get social care in later life" }, { "id": "make-advance-care-plan", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/make-advance-care-plan", "sequenced": false, "title": "Make an advance care plan" }, { "id": "make-will", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/make-will", "sequenced": false, "title": "Make a will" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/de5f0aab8f1c2a6e561d7b9b", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6f7d4c4161458d01d3d2c389" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/make-lasting-power-of-attorney", "situations": [ "A person wants trusted people to act if they later cannot make specified decisions." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_lasting_power_of_attorney", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "make-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not apply the Scottish or Northern Ireland instrument, assess capacity, choose attorneys or provide legal advice." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Office of the Public Guardian", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f4d630fc91fa662a77b5fa23", "resource_id": "resource:make-lasting-power-of-attorney:make-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/make-lasting-power-of-attorney-make-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary", "summary": "Routes England and Wales users through current lasting-power registration and use information.", "title": "Make, register or end a lasting power of attorney", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/power-of-attorney" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_later_life_benefit_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "later-life-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide entitlement, pension, care, legal planning or health needs." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/229bada4cc8c26132e85853b", "resource_id": "resource:make-lasting-power-of-attorney:later-life-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/make-lasting-power-of-attorney-later-life-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish benefit, disability and older-person support information.", "title": "Benefits in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/benefits" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_retirement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide pension entitlement, care, health or legal-planning needs." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dfb2b153a5e643aee7612a10", "resource_id": "resource:make-lasting-power-of-attorney:later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/make-lasting-power-of-attorney-later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland pension and retirement-planning information.", "title": "Pensions and retirement planning", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/pensions-and-retirement-planning" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Make a lasting power of attorney", "user_needs": [ "Use the correct territorial legal route without a capacity, suitability or drafting decision from the bundle." ] }, { "aliases": [ "small claims court", "claim money owed", "county court money claim" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "make-small-money-claim-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "make-small-money-claim-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "make-small-money-claim-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "make-small-money-claim-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Send the required pre-action information, use the correct court or online claim route and retain service, response and judgment records.", "domain": { "id": "shopping-and-consumer-rights", "route": "life-course-domain/shopping-and-consumer-rights", "title": "Shopping and consumer rights" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person or organisation seeks a civil money remedy within the applicable court process.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Send the required pre-action information, use the correct court or online claim route and retain service, response and judgment records.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f7180ecfdd1e4bbf79de308c", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fa3b0bff017b7ff580f3ffdb" }, "route": "service-episode/make-small-money-claim-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/680a98b77c0329b3e2f1518c", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6a1fab20fc9b42d409c849e9", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7ccd235630a6584bec175e03", "resource_route": "resource/make-small-money-claim-make-small-money-claim-primary", "source_id": "make-small-money-claim-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0076ea69379be245435c4d0e", "resource_route": "resource/make-small-money-claim-consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cdb44ab950491688bf2b5a7a", "resource_route": "resource/make-small-money-claim-consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/make-small-money-claim-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "make-small-money-claim-primary", "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/eed166e05749aae8c683f84d", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/59eab1db5ead5d818c1950e5", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d7f38df7a7d63973ad3bcc7c", "resource_route": "resource/make-small-money-claim-make-small-money-claim-primary", "source_id": "make-small-money-claim-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3621d65d5e0926e405407a4f", "resource_route": "resource/make-small-money-claim-consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3857e7f8b1baf5b530672ac5", "resource_route": "resource/make-small-money-claim-consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/make-small-money-claim-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "make-small-money-claim-primary", "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/540cbd379414d059562fd6ef", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3b5d971d74ae1ee42cc26b17" }, "route": "service-episode/make-small-money-claim-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4bf9cdf29e4c0e5422992a6f", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5d0acce732c39d35880c8ab2", "resource_route": "resource/make-small-money-claim-make-small-money-claim-primary", "source_id": "make-small-money-claim-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/aba45df1038cb02dba489480", "resource_route": "resource/make-small-money-claim-consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/007afc7e7a2b718956cf8409", "resource_route": "resource/make-small-money-claim-consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/make-small-money-claim-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "make-small-money-claim-primary", "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "make-small-money-claim", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Make a small money claim\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Report harm and use consumer redress** in the **Shopping and consumer rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSend the required pre-action information, use the correct court or online claim route and retain service, response and judgment records.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Make a court claim for money](https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim-for-money)\n- [Scotland: Consumer rights in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/consumer-rights)\n- [Wales: Make a court claim for money](https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim-for-money)\n- [Northern Ireland: Consumer rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Report harm and use consumer redress**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Report harm and use consumer redress", "source": "services/make-small-money-claim.md", "title": "Make a small money claim within Report harm and use consumer redress" }, "process": { "id": "report-harm-and-use-consumer-redress", "route": "enclosing-process/report-harm-and-use-consumer-redress", "title": "Report harm and use consumer redress" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "contact-trading-standards", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/contact-trading-standards", "sequenced": false, "title": "Contact Trading Standards" }, { "id": "report-product-safety-issue", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-product-safety-issue", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a product safety issue" }, { "id": "report-scam-or-fraud", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-scam-or-fraud", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a scam or fraud" }, { "id": "use-sector-ombudsman", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-sector-ombudsman", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a sector ombudsman" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/20650863ffc273dad8c61dd2", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/aabaaba7bbfa551e7b27ba49" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/make-small-money-claim", "situations": [ "A person or organisation seeks a civil money remedy within the applicable court process." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_money_claim_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "make-small-money-claim-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not advise whether to sue, calculate limitation or interest, draft a claim or predict judgment or recovery." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "HM Courts and Tribunals Service", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e3b3c698fabd53e11bc1c826", "resource_id": "resource:make-small-money-claim:make-small-money-claim-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/make-small-money-claim-make-small-money-claim-primary", "summary": "Provides England and Wales online and paper money-claim handoffs and fee information.", "title": "Make a court claim for money", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim-for-money" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_consumer_rights_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide whether goods, services, terms or credit breach a consumer's rights." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/eeb43b9757e1bf1ee50801b0", "resource_id": "resource:make-small-money-claim:consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/make-small-money-claim-consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish consumer advice, complaint and enforcement information.", "title": "Consumer rights in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/consumer-rights" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_consumer_rights_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain civil and consumer procedure does not establish Northern Ireland redress." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Competition and Markets Authority", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9d01feb8b0c103d2600fac22", "resource_id": "resource:make-small-money-claim:consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/make-small-money-claim-consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland consumer advice, complaints and enforcement.", "title": "Consumer rights in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Make a small money claim", "user_needs": [ "Find the jurisdiction-specific claim route without legal advice or an outcome prediction." ] }, { "aliases": [ "write a valid will", "choose executor", "update will" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "make-will-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "make-will-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "later-life-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "later-life-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "make-will-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "make-will-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Identify the applicable succession law, record wishes and executors using the required formalities and obtain legal advice for complexity or vulnerability.", "domain": { "id": "later-life", "route": "life-course-domain/later-life", "title": "Later life" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person wants to decide how their estate should be handled after death.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Identify the applicable succession law, record wishes and executors using the required formalities and obtain legal advice for complexity or vulnerability.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e96d55be32e9e7ddfa703a31", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7de68a72577d046450e810dc" }, "route": "service-episode/make-will-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c75dafa948673847ac2d82db", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8b8ac23bda8e0742be16db06", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fff4c1d00a26ce10e304fb35", "resource_route": "resource/make-will-make-will-primary", "source_id": "make-will-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3f7a7c65071356d8b05948b4", "resource_route": "resource/make-will-later-life-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "later-life-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5250a751a92d4d73d388b844", "resource_route": "resource/make-will-later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/make-will-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "make-will-primary", "later-life-scotland-handoff", "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to make a will and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Identify the applicable succession law, record wishes and executors using the required formalities and obtain legal advice for complexity or vulnerability." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8212327dc1c65204d794c9ef", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/17981becd81b340651b2ffcb", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/72a883c6b66e2fb72dbcbabf", "resource_route": "resource/make-will-make-will-primary", "source_id": "make-will-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/93fdeac2a3ef5cd1b622fb1c", "resource_route": "resource/make-will-later-life-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "later-life-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/22654d128a710b46c3d4de9d", "resource_route": "resource/make-will-later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/make-will-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "make-will-primary", "later-life-scotland-handoff", "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/649b7ce87d76110babb04f51", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/44f155896c6ebc16225ccc4d" }, "route": "service-episode/make-will-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/355af14c7733db291281641c", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fea38523d56ceedacbb01d0a", "resource_route": "resource/make-will-make-will-primary", "source_id": "make-will-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d1f0d7820290ffe6293e1e2a", "resource_route": "resource/make-will-later-life-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "later-life-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4506e70bc3a60fa277562b57", "resource_route": "resource/make-will-later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/make-will-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "make-will-primary", "later-life-scotland-handoff", "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "make-will", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Make a will\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Arrange later-life care and future decisions** in the **Later life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the applicable succession law, record wishes and executors using the required formalities and obtain legal advice for complexity or vulnerability.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Making a will](https://www.gov.uk/make-will)\n- [Scotland: Benefits in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/benefits)\n- [Wales: Making a will](https://www.gov.uk/make-will)\n- [Northern Ireland: Pensions and retirement planning](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/pensions-and-retirement-planning)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Arrange later-life care and future decisions**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Arrange later-life care and future decisions", "source": "services/make-will.md", "title": "Make a will within Arrange later-life care and future decisions" }, "process": { "id": "arrange-later-life-care-and-future-decisions", "route": "enclosing-process/arrange-later-life-care-and-future-decisions", "title": "Arrange later-life care and future decisions" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-palliative-or-end-of-life-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access palliative or end-of-life care" }, { "id": "get-carer-support-in-later-life", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-carer-support-in-later-life", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get carer support in later life" }, { "id": "get-housing-adaptation-in-later-life", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-housing-adaptation-in-later-life", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a housing adaptation in later life" }, { "id": "get-social-care-in-later-life", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-social-care-in-later-life", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get social care in later life" }, { "id": "make-advance-care-plan", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/make-advance-care-plan", "sequenced": false, "title": "Make an advance care plan" }, { "id": "make-lasting-power-of-attorney", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/make-lasting-power-of-attorney", "sequenced": false, "title": "Make a lasting power of attorney" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3fb6bca4a3404ed5505f5712", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d59fae1595676e7ef83e2425" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/make-will", "situations": [ "A person wants to decide how their estate should be handled after death." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_will_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "make-will-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish Scottish or Northern Ireland law, draft or validate a will or advise on tax and family provision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Justice", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b64759282c839eae283e2cbe", "resource_id": "resource:make-will:make-will-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/make-will-make-will-primary", "summary": "Explains England and Wales will, signing, witness, storage and update boundaries.", "title": "Making a will", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/make-will" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_later_life_benefit_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "later-life-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide entitlement, pension, care, legal planning or health needs." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/babf9d6a5e42a3c53628db95", "resource_id": "resource:make-will:later-life-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/make-will-later-life-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish benefit, disability and older-person support information.", "title": "Benefits in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/benefits" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_retirement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide pension entitlement, care, health or legal-planning needs." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/91091f5c86866c87c4715d00", "resource_id": "resource:make-will:later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/make-will-later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland pension and retirement-planning information.", "title": "Pensions and retirement planning", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/pensions-and-retirement-planning" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Make a will", "user_needs": [ "Reach current legal guidance without the bundle drafting, witnessing or validating a will." ] }, { "aliases": [ "protect copyrighted work", "copyright ownership and permission", "use creative work legally" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "manage-copyright-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "manage-copyright-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "manage-copyright-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "manage-copyright-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "manage-copyright-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "manage-copyright-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "manage-copyright-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "manage-copyright-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Identify the work, ownership, term and intended use and use permission, exception, licensing or enforcement routes as applicable.", "domain": { "id": "ideas-creativity-and-research", "route": "life-course-domain/ideas-creativity-and-research", "title": "Ideas, creativity and research" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A creator, user or organisation needs to understand rights in an original work or protected material.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Identify the work, ownership, term and intended use and use permission, exception, licensing or enforcement routes as applicable.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f085c4cb12c9dd432f87074c", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b01eae9ea286a19b76655f10" }, "route": "service-episode/manage-copyright-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3fb77ea857adc8ef2dafaefc", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9850694cfe2a1620f60a9e32", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8037c3f3f50a58b1c37b7d49", "resource_route": "resource/manage-copyright-manage-copyright-primary", "source_id": "manage-copyright-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/manage-copyright-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "manage-copyright-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to manage copyright and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Identify the work, ownership, term and intended use and use permission, exception, licensing or enforcement routes as applicable." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a5b4e539312fc0d652d89516", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2ca30876e2c2318588a5f1dd", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f3e03a003b442fa9506fc002", "resource_route": "resource/manage-copyright-manage-copyright-primary", "source_id": "manage-copyright-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/manage-copyright-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "manage-copyright-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2cfa5f947646b37bcff31ef1", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/99f92b1b87ff419af65ac4ef" }, "route": "service-episode/manage-copyright-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4263c3d1a2cea1331699be81", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5e43c755553f1325e8b09f8c", "resource_route": "resource/manage-copyright-manage-copyright-primary", "source_id": "manage-copyright-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/manage-copyright-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "manage-copyright-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "manage-copyright", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Manage copyright\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Protect and register intellectual property** in the **Ideas, creativity and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the work, ownership, term and intended use and use permission, exception, licensing or enforcement routes as applicable.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Copyright](https://www.gov.uk/copyright)\n- [Scotland: Copyright](https://www.gov.uk/copyright)\n- [Wales: Copyright](https://www.gov.uk/copyright)\n- [Northern Ireland: Copyright](https://www.gov.uk/copyright)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Protect and register intellectual property**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Protect and register intellectual property", "source": "services/manage-copyright.md", "title": "Manage copyright within Protect and register intellectual property" }, "process": { "id": "protect-and-register-intellectual-property", "route": "enclosing-process/protect-and-register-intellectual-property", "title": "Protect and register intellectual property" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-patent", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-patent", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for a patent" }, { "id": "license-intellectual-property", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/license-intellectual-property", "sequenced": false, "title": "License intellectual property" }, { "id": "protect-confidential-information", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/protect-confidential-information", "sequenced": false, "title": "Protect confidential information" }, { "id": "register-design", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-design", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a design" }, { "id": "register-trade-mark", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-trade-mark", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a trade mark" }, { "id": "request-patent-search-and-examination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/request-patent-search-and-examination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Request patent search and examination" }, { "id": "search-prior-art", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/search-prior-art", "sequenced": false, "title": "Search prior art" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a6cb7a488dcf91b82fd07f3b", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5cf5f04eecc3af773d786e48" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/manage-copyright", "situations": [ "A creator, user or organisation needs to understand rights in an original work or protected material." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_copyright_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "manage-copyright-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide ownership, term, subsistence, exception, infringement or remedy." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Intellectual Property Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dbf2b659380c7dfd29dcc743", "resource_id": "resource:manage-copyright:manage-copyright-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/manage-copyright-manage-copyright-primary", "summary": "Introduces UK automatic copyright, ownership, duration, licensing and infringement routes.", "title": "Copyright", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/copyright" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Manage copyright", "user_needs": [ "Navigate ownership and permission without the bundle deciding infringement, exceptions or term." ] }, { "aliases": [ "driving licence endorsements", "check points on licence", "totting up" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "manage-penalty-points-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": 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the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/79467a9bece0b385736842e3", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2251ba710f09918519460632", "resource_route": "resource/manage-penalty-points-manage-penalty-points-primary", "source_id": "manage-penalty-points-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c42d475391e3ade76337b4a3", "resource_route": "resource/manage-penalty-points-transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/10119b70e9492338cdaa1fcd", "resource_route": "resource/manage-penalty-points-transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/manage-penalty-points-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "manage-penalty-points-primary", "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "manage-penalty-points", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Manage penalty points\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Respond to road notices and penalties** in the **Transport enforcement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck the official driving record and use the authority or court route for endorsements, errors, expiry and disqualification consequences.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Penalty points and endorsements](https://www.gov.uk/penalty-points-endorsements)\n- [Scotland: Road safety, parking tickets, fines and bans in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport/penalty-points-fines)\n- [Wales: Penalty points and endorsements](https://www.gov.uk/penalty-points-endorsements)\n- [Northern Ireland: Motoring offences in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/fixed-penalties-motoring-offences)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Respond to road notices and penalties**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Respond to road notices and penalties", "source": "services/manage-penalty-points.md", "title": "Manage penalty points within Respond to road notices and penalties" }, "process": { "id": "respond-to-road-notices-and-penalties", "route": "enclosing-process/respond-to-road-notices-and-penalties", "title": "Respond to road notices and penalties" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "accept-fixed-penalty", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/accept-fixed-penalty", "sequenced": false, "title": "Accept a fixed penalty" }, { "id": "attend-driver-awareness-course", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/attend-driver-awareness-course", "sequenced": false, "title": "Attend a driver awareness course" }, { "id": "challenge-private-parking-charge", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/challenge-private-parking-charge", "sequenced": false, "title": "Challenge a private parking charge" }, { "id": "identify-driver-after-road-offence", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/identify-driver-after-road-offence", "sequenced": false, "title": "Identify the driver after a road offence" }, { "id": "respond-to-council-parking-penalty", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/respond-to-council-parking-penalty", "sequenced": false, "title": "Respond to a council parking penalty" }, { "id": "respond-to-speeding-notice", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/respond-to-speeding-notice", "sequenced": false, "title": "Respond to a speeding notice" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/97f90396d8aae7c1b607f880", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f8c269df06749dd07b041277" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/manage-penalty-points", "situations": [ "A driver needs to understand or correct points shown on the applicable licence record." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_penalty_points_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "manage-penalty-points-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish Northern Ireland procedure or predict a court or insurance outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9f2edf2d1483390f45e2ad6a", "resource_id": "resource:manage-penalty-points:manage-penalty-points-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/manage-penalty-points-manage-penalty-points-primary", "summary": "Explains Great Britain endorsement codes, points, record periods and disqualification handoffs.", "title": "Penalty points and endorsements", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/penalty-points-endorsements" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transport_enforcement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine whether a notice, penalty, prosecution or appeal is valid." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cd4fcae089ff3e5cf20945a3", "resource_id": 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ac1eae7ad57575021d8372e1", "resource_id": "resource:manage-penalty-points:transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/manage-penalty-points-transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland motoring-offence, penalty and court information.", "title": "Motoring offences in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/fixed-penalties-motoring-offences" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Manage penalty points", "user_needs": [ "Separate record facts from legal consequences and avoid calculating a disqualification locally." ] }, { "aliases": [ "repay student finance", "student loan deductions" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": 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state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dca62312e3978fb8c809223b", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/96646d355a5abd9a8de45218", "resource_route": "resource/manage-student-loan-repayment-manage-student-loan-repayment-primary", "source_id": "manage-student-loan-repayment-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/manage-student-loan-repayment-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "manage-student-loan-repayment-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "manage-student-loan-repayment", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Manage student loan repayment\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Manage personal tax and contributions** in the **Money, tax and benefits** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the repayment plan and use payroll, Self Assessment or overseas repayment routes for the account.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Repaying your student loan](https://www.gov.uk/repaying-your-student-loan)\n- [Scotland: Repaying your student loan](https://www.gov.uk/repaying-your-student-loan)\n- [Wales: Repaying your student loan](https://www.gov.uk/repaying-your-student-loan)\n- [Northern Ireland: Repaying your student loan](https://www.gov.uk/repaying-your-student-loan)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Manage personal tax and contributions**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Manage personal tax and contributions", "source": "services/manage-student-loan-repayment.md", "title": "Manage student loan repayment within Manage personal tax and contributions" }, "process": { "id": "manage-personal-tax-and-contributions", "route": "enclosing-process/manage-personal-tax-and-contributions", "title": "Manage personal tax and contributions" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-tax-refund", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-tax-refund", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim a tax refund" }, { "id": "file-self-assessment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/file-self-assessment", "sequenced": false, "title": "File Self Assessment" }, { "id": "get-national-insurance-record", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-national-insurance-record", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a National Insurance record" }, { "id": "pay-council-tax", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/pay-council-tax", "sequenced": false, "title": "Pay Council Tax" }, { "id": "register-for-income-tax", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-for-income-tax", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register for Income Tax" }, { "id": "register-for-vat", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-for-vat", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register for VAT" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/85f69f3b2e7d19176fbca169", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d23c21cf10a3b761b0673e9b" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/manage-student-loan-repayment", "situations": [ "A borrower needs to understand or correct student-loan repayments." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_student_loan_repayment_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "manage-student-loan-repayment-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not calculate a balance or advise early repayment." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Student Loans Company", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3ab607d96f2984aa6686a6c3", "resource_id": "resource:manage-student-loan-repayment:manage-student-loan-repayment-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/manage-student-loan-repayment-manage-student-loan-repayment-primary", "summary": "Explains plan-specific repayment, payroll, tax-return and overseas routes.", "title": "Repaying your student loan", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/repaying-your-student-loan" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Manage student loan repayment", "user_needs": [ "Use the official plan, balance and deduction routes without financial advice from the bundle." ] }, { "aliases": [ "move abroad tax pension", "benefits while overseas", "National Insurance abroad" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad-primary", "provider": 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"order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Notify the relevant bodies, identify residence and reciprocal-arrangement questions and use specialist advice for cross-border tax or entitlement decisions." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/619e910b6fb83a4af58dfda0", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0ccf292d2f06ded6d2098bb2", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a1417cd1968f732a9d7841d7", "resource_route": "resource/manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad-manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad-primary", "source_id": "manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": 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authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0d0ea49c582fa4685688df4e", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/67b00b2017fcec07b7d72721", "resource_route": "resource/manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad-manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad-primary", "source_id": "manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Manage tax, National Insurance, benefits and pensions abroad\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Live, work and get help overseas** in the **Holidays, volunteering and living overseas** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNotify the relevant bodies, identify residence and reciprocal-arrangement questions and use specialist advice for cross-border tax or entitlement decisions.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Tax if you retire abroad](https://www.gov.uk/tax-right-retire-abroad-return-to-uk)\n- [Scotland: Tax if you retire abroad](https://www.gov.uk/tax-right-retire-abroad-return-to-uk)\n- [Wales: Tax if you retire abroad](https://www.gov.uk/tax-right-retire-abroad-return-to-uk)\n- [Northern Ireland: Tax if you retire abroad](https://www.gov.uk/tax-right-retire-abroad-return-to-uk)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Live, work and get help overseas**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Live, work and get help overseas", "source": "services/manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad.md", "title": "Manage tax, National Insurance, benefits and pensions abroad within Live, work and get help overseas" }, "process": { "id": "live-work-and-get-help-overseas", "route": "enclosing-process/live-work-and-get-help-overseas", "title": "Live, work and get help overseas" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-consular-assistance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-consular-assistance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get consular assistance" }, { "id": "get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad", "relationship": 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deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "manage-university-intellectual-property", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Manage university intellectual property\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Conduct and recognise research and qualifications** in the **Further education, university and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nLocate the institution's intellectual-property policy and use disclosure, ownership and commercialisation routes.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Intellectual asset management for universities](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/intellectual-asset-management-for-universities)\n- [Scotland: Further and higher education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Further and higher education in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Higher education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education/higher-education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Conduct and recognise research and qualifications**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Conduct and recognise research and qualifications", "source": "services/manage-university-intellectual-property.md", "title": "Manage university intellectual property within Conduct and recognise research and qualifications" }, "process": { "id": "conduct-and-recognise-research-and-qualifications", "route": "enclosing-process/conduct-and-recognise-research-and-qualifications", "title": "Conduct and recognise research and qualifications" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-academic-qualification-recognised", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-academic-qualification-recognised", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get an academic qualification recognised" }, { "id": "obtain-research-ethics-approval", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-research-ethics-approval", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain research ethics approval" }, { "id": "seek-research-funding", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/seek-research-funding", "sequenced": false, "title": "Seek research funding" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9dbff647774d005f3f9bdeb0", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c01b87369c1b84a91681dc5c" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/manage-university-intellectual-property", "situations": [ "A student, researcher or institution needs to manage intellectual assets arising from university activity." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": 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"url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/intellectual-asset-management-for-universities" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_post_school_study_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a course, funding, admission or research decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5884738d341ae7f9949d5945", "resource_id": "resource:manage-university-intellectual-property:post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/manage-university-intellectual-property-post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish college, university and student-support services.", "title": "Further and higher education in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_post_school_study_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a course, funding, admission or research decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/33ef6dafa31ce9f3557041ca", "resource_id": "resource:manage-university-intellectual-property:post-school-study-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/manage-university-intellectual-property-post-school-study-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh further- and higher-education services and policy.", "title": 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What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind each scheme, obtain its options and regulated guidance, understand tax and benefit effects and make decisions through the scheme provider.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Workplace pensions](https://www.gov.uk/workplace-pensions)\n- [Scotland: Workplace pensions](https://www.gov.uk/workplace-pensions)\n- [Wales: Workplace pensions](https://www.gov.uk/workplace-pensions)\n- [Northern Ireland: Workplace pensions](https://www.gov.uk/workplace-pensions)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Secure later-life income and mobility**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Secure later-life income and mobility", "source": "services/manage-workplace-pension-in-retirement.md", "title": "Manage a workplace pension in retirement within Secure later-life income and mobility" }, "process": { "id": "secure-later-life-income-and-mobility", "route": "enclosing-process/secure-later-life-income-and-mobility", "title": "Secure later-life income and mobility" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-attendance-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-attendance-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Attendance Allowance" }, { "id": "claim-pension-credit", "relationship": 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4898959c6ae04ecd665df44c", "resource_route": "resource/marry-marry-primary", "source_id": "marry-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0c5f36a90097ecab72879468", "resource_route": "resource/marry-family-change-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d7610e1092e395bc66c20d60", "resource_route": "resource/marry-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/marry-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "marry-primary", "family-change-scotland-handoff", "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "marry", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Marry\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Form, change and support family relationships** in the **Relationships and family change** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSelect the law and registration route for the place of marriage, give any required notice and complete the source-defined ceremony and registration steps.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Marriages and civil partnerships in England and Wales](https://www.gov.uk/marriages-civil-partnerships)\n- [Scotland: Births, deaths and family in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family)\n- [Wales: Marriages and civil partnerships in England and Wales](https://www.gov.uk/marriages-civil-partnerships)\n- [Northern Ireland: Find out your rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/find-out-your-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Form, change and support family relationships**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Form, change and support family relationships", "source": "services/marry.md", "title": "Marry within Form, change and support family relationships" }, "process": { "id": "form-change-and-support-family-relationships", "route": "enclosing-process/form-change-and-support-family-relationships", "title": "Form, change and support family relationships" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "adopt-child", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/adopt-child", "sequenced": false, "title": "Adopt a child" }, { "id": "arrange-child-maintenance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-child-maintenance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange child maintenance" }, { "id": "change-name", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/change-name", "sequenced": false, "title": "Change name" }, { "id": "divorce-or-dissolve-partnership", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/divorce-or-dissolve-partnership", "sequenced": false, "title": "Divorce or dissolve a partnership" }, { "id": "form-civil-partnership", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/form-civil-partnership", "sequenced": false, "title": "Form a civil partnership" }, { "id": "resolve-parental-responsibility", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/resolve-parental-responsibility", "sequenced": false, "title": "Resolve parental responsibility" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6e50ff6e1d6d912b6491c175", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f402f6e52e3b8b27f298b3e1" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/marry", "situations": [ "Two people intend to enter a legally recognised marriage." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_marriage_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "marry-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish Scotland or Northern Ireland procedure or decide capacity or immigration status." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "General Register Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b75bf32900aef9cf1076109c", "resource_id": "resource:marry:marry-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/marry-marry-primary", "summary": "Introduces England and Wales notice, document, ceremony and registration routes.", "title": "Marriages and civil partnerships in England and Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/marriages-civil-partnerships" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_family_change_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "family-change-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine status, legal rights, eligibility, safeguarding action or an individual court route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8697494a1c9b2b6ea09e234f", "resource_id": "resource:marry:family-change-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/marry-family-change-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish marriage, civil partnership, family, care and representation information.", "title": "Births, deaths and family in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_family_change_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish the applicable court, safeguarding, care or representation route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9486cb3b6212de3b44fa9951", "resource_id": "resource:marry:family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/marry-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Introduces Northern Ireland marriage, civil partnership, separation, parental-responsibility, family-safety and wider rights handoffs.", "title": "Find out your rights in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/find-out-your-rights" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Marry", "user_needs": [ "Find the correct registration authority, preliminaries and exception route without assuming one UK process." ] }, { "aliases": [ "building control approval", "building regulations application", "completion certificate" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "meet-building-regulations-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "meet-building-regulations-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "housing-community-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "housing-community-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "housing-community-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Select the applicable building-control route, provide plans and notices and retain inspection and completion evidence.", "domain": { "id": "housing-and-community", "route": "life-course-domain/housing-and-community", "title": "Housing and community life" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "Building work may be controlled by safety", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Select the applicable building-control route, provide plans and notices and retain inspection and completion evidence.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/823548bf8333e4d9a5bbcdee", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d6a0207e27cee9eba13119eb" }, "route": "service-episode/meet-building-regulations-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/656200d75d6819c9fe2490de", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ec252da021d0979da49eaf75", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/931a95f1562f64a943a37c28", "resource_route": "resource/meet-building-regulations-meet-building-regulations-primary", "source_id": "meet-building-regulations-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a56b87a21aac98171a0814fa", "resource_route": "resource/meet-building-regulations-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7acd37eb660e1ad9a2c8c0c7", "resource_route": "resource/meet-building-regulations-housing-community-wales-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7be66570bbeeeaf94b92f1f7", "resource_route": "resource/meet-building-regulations-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/meet-building-regulations-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "meet-building-regulations-primary", "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "housing-community-wales-handoff", "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to meet building regulations and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Select the applicable building-control route, provide plans and notices and retain inspection and completion evidence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c590e36ec509f44546c2bfcf", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c1a6d2d03c6bfb2d1f830b8d", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b69f26c7ccfd71c9c3bc4e08", "resource_route": "resource/meet-building-regulations-meet-building-regulations-primary", "source_id": "meet-building-regulations-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c0ed9815e6933827bd7b68e0", "resource_route": "resource/meet-building-regulations-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ded44ea841d6db65c37485b2", "resource_route": "resource/meet-building-regulations-housing-community-wales-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/36908ff072b1db28d4a93476", "resource_route": "resource/meet-building-regulations-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/meet-building-regulations-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "meet-building-regulations-primary", "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "housing-community-wales-handoff", "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ca39427eeb8cb7115ad51571", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/067016270f32f635b231c4fd" }, "route": "service-episode/meet-building-regulations-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e2a20a14ca65a07e83addae8", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8144091c9c9a50026ad6fd96", "resource_route": "resource/meet-building-regulations-meet-building-regulations-primary", "source_id": "meet-building-regulations-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/37059c8474ac950a676c0753", "resource_route": "resource/meet-building-regulations-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f5737d3fc9750fc4af3f8cbd", "resource_route": "resource/meet-building-regulations-housing-community-wales-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/288787364591c06a52cd49a5", "resource_route": "resource/meet-building-regulations-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/meet-building-regulations-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "meet-building-regulations-primary", "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "housing-community-wales-handoff", "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "meet-building-regulations", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Meet building regulations\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Adapt, develop and protect home and neighbourhood** in the **Housing and community life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSelect the applicable building-control route, provide plans and notices and retain inspection and completion evidence.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Building regulations approval](https://www.gov.uk/building-regulations-approval)\n- [Scotland: Housing and local services in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services)\n- [Wales: Housing in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/housing)\n- [Northern Ireland: Property and housing in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/property-and-housing)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Adapt, develop and protect home and neighbourhood**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Adapt, develop and protect home and neighbourhood", "source": "services/meet-building-regulations.md", "title": "Meet building regulations within Adapt, develop and protect home and neighbourhood" }, "process": { "id": "adapt-develop-and-protect-home-and-neighbourhood", "route": "enclosing-process/adapt-develop-and-protect-home-and-neighbourhood", "title": "Adapt, develop and protect home and neighbourhood" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-home-adaptation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-home-adaptation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for a home adaptation" }, { "id": "report-noise-or-pest-nuisance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-noise-or-pest-nuisance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a noise or pest nuisance" }, { "id": "seek-planning-permission", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/seek-planning-permission", "sequenced": false, "title": "Seek planning permission" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0dd7528de1b7749995eb25d0", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/39d05e1f43a4fcc0d0f00527" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/meet-building-regulations", "situations": [ "Building work may be controlled by safety, accessibility, energy or construction requirements." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_building_control_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "meet-building-regulations-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess design compliance, appoint an inspector or approve work." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1cfef152e440fe070bd9b227", "resource_id": "resource:meet-building-regulations:meet-building-regulations-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/meet-building-regulations-meet-building-regulations-primary", "summary": "Explains England approval routes, inspections and completion evidence.", "title": "Building regulations approval", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/building-regulations-approval" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England housing rule or local route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/52d458057c95c26d5528bae1", "resource_id": "resource:meet-building-regulations:housing-community-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/meet-building-regulations-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish housing, planning, local-tax and neighbourhood services.", "title": "Housing and local services in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services" }, { "authority_role": "wales_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine a tenancy, planning, homelessness or adaptation decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5cfc7ad07ed83cd8f0929e3e", "resource_id": "resource:meet-building-regulations:housing-community-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/meet-building-regulations-housing-community-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh housing policy, support and service information.", "title": "Housing in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/housing" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "England, Scotland and Wales housing rules do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/386db0bdf4e643a7b952209c", "resource_id": "resource:meet-building-regulations:housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/meet-building-regulations-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland property, housing and local-service information.", "title": "Property and housing in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/property-and-housing" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Meet building regulations", "user_needs": [ "Distinguish 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action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Meet school attendance duties\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter and attend school** in the **School years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUnderstand the attendance route, authorised-absence boundary and response when attendance is disrupted.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: School attendance and absence](https://www.gov.uk/school-attendance-absence)\n- [Scotland: School education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter and attend school**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter and attend school", "source": "services/meet-school-attendance-duty.md", "title": "Meet school attendance duties within Enter and attend school" }, "process": { "id": "enter-and-attend-school", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-and-attend-school", "title": "Enter and attend school" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "appeal-school-admission", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/appeal-school-admission", "sequenced": false, "title": "Appeal a school admission decision" }, { "id": "apply-for-free-school-meals", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-free-school-meals", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for free school meals" }, { "id": "apply-for-school-place", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-school-place", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for a school place" }, { "id": "arrange-school-transport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-school-transport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange school transport" }, { "id": "choose-home-education", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/choose-home-education", "sequenced": false, "title": "Choose home education" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8defb35e31449b04e1df1643", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2e1932830bf8ce545eae4c5f" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/meet-school-attendance-duty", "situations": [ "A parent, carer or pupil 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"output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/93077b7253b64d1229ec692f", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2044d2729773f1a004fb8c25", "resource_route": "resource/meet-workplace-safety-duties-meet-workplace-safety-duties-primary", "source_id": "meet-workplace-safety-duties-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b288901fa6a169eac0b682ca", "resource_route": "resource/meet-workplace-safety-duties-organisation-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "organisation-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/meet-workplace-safety-duties-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "meet-workplace-safety-duties-primary", "organisation-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "meet-workplace-safety-duties", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Meet workplace safety duties\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Operate, regulate and close an organisation** in the **Starting and running an organisation** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the enforcing authority, assess and control work risks and maintain the current records, consultation and reporting arrangements.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Health and safety basics for your business](https://www.hse.gov.uk/simple-health-safety/)\n- [Scotland: Health and safety basics for your business](https://www.hse.gov.uk/simple-health-safety/)\n- [Wales: Health and safety basics for your business](https://www.hse.gov.uk/simple-health-safety/)\n- [Northern Ireland: Starting a business in Northern Ireland](https://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/starting-business)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Operate, regulate and close an organisation**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Operate, regulate and close an organisation", "source": "services/meet-workplace-safety-duties.md", "title": "Meet workplace safety duties within Operate, regulate and close an organisation" }, "process": { "id": "operate-regulate-and-close-an-organisation", "route": "enclosing-process/operate-regulate-and-close-an-organisation", "title": "Operate, regulate and close an organisation" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "bid-for-public-contract", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/bid-for-public-contract", "sequenced": false, "title": "Bid for a public contract" }, { "id": "close-or-insolvent-business", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/close-or-insolvent-business", "sequenced": false, "title": "Close or make a business insolvent" }, { "id": "obtain-business-licence", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-business-licence", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a business licence" }, { "id": "register-data-protection-fee", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-data-protection-fee", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a data-protection fee" }, { "id": "run-payroll", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/run-payroll", "sequenced": false, "title": "Run payroll" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c38dcefaf11136eca5577688", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a7cd7f405f22ae0253fa3f49" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, 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"resource/meet-workplace-safety-duties-meet-workplace-safety-duties-primary", "summary": "Introduces Great Britain employer and self-employed risk, policy, consultation, reporting and insurance duties.", "title": "Health and safety basics for your business", "url": "https://www.hse.gov.uk/simple-health-safety/" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_business_support_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "organisation-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not register an organisation, decide legal form or replace Companies House, HMRC or a licensing authority." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Invest Northern Ireland", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0e44c5b5551680a8f90231cc", "resource_id": "resource:meet-workplace-safety-duties:organisation-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": 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} ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/move-home-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "move-home-primary", "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "housing-community-wales-handoff", "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route 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"The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/016edf4bd979a3bce3dd1b73", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/040876f8bdd8ada77a62c792", "resource_route": "resource/move-home-move-home-primary", "source_id": "move-home-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1311af384e2c47f90df1ab40", "resource_route": "resource/move-home-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/01cc9f599c24828841080b8b", "resource_route": "resource/move-home-housing-community-wales-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/007e5f86de065b527de3ecfd", "resource_route": "resource/move-home-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/move-home-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "move-home-primary", "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "housing-community-wales-handoff", "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "move-home", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Move home\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Secure and move home** in the **Housing and community life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCoordinate the old and new housing route, utilities, local records, address changes and handover evidence around a move.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Moving from your owned home](https://www.gov.uk/selling-a-home)\n- [Scotland: Housing and local services in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services)\n- [Wales: Housing in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/housing)\n- [Northern Ireland: Property and housing in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/property-and-housing)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Secure and move home**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Secure and move home", "source": "services/move-home.md", "title": "Move home within Secure and move home" }, "process": { "id": "secure-and-move-home", "route": "enclosing-process/secure-and-move-home", "title": "Secure and move home" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-social-housing", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-social-housing", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for social housing" }, { "id": "buy-home", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/buy-home", "sequenced": false, "title": "Buy a home" }, { "id": "get-homelessness-help", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-homelessness-help", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get homelessness help" }, { "id": "protect-tenancy-deposit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/protect-tenancy-deposit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Protect a tenancy deposit" }, { "id": "prove-right-to-rent", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/prove-right-to-rent", "sequenced": false, "title": "Prove the right to rent" }, { "id": "register-for-council-tax", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-for-council-tax", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register for Council Tax" }, { "id": "rent-private-home", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/rent-private-home", "sequenced": false, "title": "Rent a private home" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ec8be5992bdfa3e8afe07901", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/98dcd3ec6a24610184d215da" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/move-home", "situations": [ "A household is preparing to leave one home and occupy another." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_home_moving_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "move-home-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not cover every tenure, complete address changes or provide conveyancing advice." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/468b6d95f961260ebdb7d691", "resource_id": "resource:move-home:move-home-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/move-home-move-home-primary", "summary": "Introduces the England selling, completion and moving-out process and its professional handoffs.", "title": "Moving from your owned home", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/selling-a-home" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England housing rule or local route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fb396238210361b53724b52b", "resource_id": "resource:move-home:housing-community-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/move-home-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish housing, planning, local-tax and neighbourhood services.", "title": "Housing and local services in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services" }, { "authority_role": "wales_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine a tenancy, planning, homelessness or adaptation decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0dfa94df15e5a1061ac6d724", "resource_id": "resource:move-home:housing-community-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/move-home-housing-community-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh housing policy, support and service information.", "title": "Housing in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/housing" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "England, Scotland and Wales housing rules do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6ff850ca6d4f93422260bf9f", "resource_id": "resource:move-home:housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/move-home-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland property, housing and local-service information.", "title": "Property and housing in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/property-and-housing" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Move home", "user_needs": [ "Place notices, handover, address updates and service transfers into a safe sequence." ] }, { "aliases": [ "Tell Us Once", "tell government about a death", "close accounts after death", "notify banks after death" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England, Scotland and Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "tell-us-once", "primary_source": "govuk-tell-us-once", "provider": "organisation:tell-us-once-service" } ], "source_ids": [ "govuk-tell-us-once" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "manual-notifications", "primary_source": "nidirect-who-to-tell", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-bereavement-service" } ], "source_ids": [ "nidirect-who-to-tell", "nidirect-bereavement-service" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Use Tell Us Once where its current coverage applies and preserve separate notifications for public and private bodies outside that coverage.", "domain": { "id": "death-and-bereavement", "route": "life-course-domain/death-and-bereavement", "title": "Death and bereavement" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A synthetic registration output and list of organisations are available.", "id": "notify-covered-and-uncovered-bodies", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Each notification is recorded as acknowledged, pending, failed or not yet made.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/37b4993aa1b3decfb6a5931d", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8d5f80194246dc3ac5b47a1f" }, "route": "service-episode/notify-organisations-after-a-death-notify-covered-and-uncovered-bodies", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current Tell Us Once or Northern Ireland guidance route." }, "cost": { "reason": "No notification charge is modelled.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Synthetic reference and body list." }, "id": "determine-coverage", "interaction": "Check residence, service availability and the current covered-body list.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Ready to make service or body-specific notifications." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Covered and uncovered organisation lists." }, "provider": "organisation:notification-service", "redress": { "reason": "Redress follows a failed or disputed notification.", "state": "not_applicable" }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/28c9e69397cf798d2c7acf93", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/63634e7af9c3d41b0c001c73", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/64502c19e61e6e069f3a2c14", "resource_route": "resource/notify-organisations-after-a-death-govuk-tell-us-once", "source_id": "govuk-tell-us-once" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/de4d3d27e7dd0847e9b155af", "resource_route": "resource/notify-organisations-after-a-death-nidirect-who-to-tell", "source_id": "nidirect-who-to-tell" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1e27b85b1397f49654e53660", "resource_route": "resource/notify-organisations-after-a-death-nidirect-bereavement-service", "source_id": "nidirect-bereavement-service" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Registration output, residence and service reference where supplied." }, "route": "service-step/notify-organisations-after-a-death-notify-covered-and-uncovered-bodies-determine-coverage", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Tell Us Once does not apply to Northern Ireland and does not cover every organisation." }, "source_ids": [ "govuk-tell-us-once", "nidirect-who-to-tell", "nidirect-bereavement-service" ], "time": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Follow current service and body-specific timing." } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Government service or body-specific official route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the recipient's current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Synthetic notification record and response." }, "id": "notify-and-track-each-body", "interaction": "Use each applicable official or body-specific route and retain the result.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Notification matrix remains inspectable." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Acknowledgement, request for evidence, failure or pending state." }, "provider": "role:body-requiring-death-notification", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Recipient complaint route for an unresolved notification." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f17eac76f4a681c1a24f308f", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c54ef283676a550bdf951d61", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ba8ab75343796483b651e293", "resource_route": "resource/notify-organisations-after-a-death-govuk-tell-us-once", "source_id": "govuk-tell-us-once" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d7044df566a579b75f256331", "resource_route": "resource/notify-organisations-after-a-death-nidirect-who-to-tell", "source_id": "nidirect-who-to-tell" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d4b39ff69ae1badb34e00627", "resource_route": "resource/notify-organisations-after-a-death-nidirect-bereavement-service", "source_id": "nidirect-bereavement-service" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Evidence requested by that body and authority to act where required." }, "route": "service-step/notify-organisations-after-a-death-notify-covered-and-uncovered-bodies-notify-and-track-each-body", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Each recipient's current requirements control." }, "source_ids": [ "govuk-tell-us-once", "nidirect-who-to-tell", "nidirect-bereavement-service" ], "time": { "reason": "Body-specific time limits are not generalized.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Notify covered and uncovered bodies" }, { "entry_state": "The service is unavailable, its reference is absent or an organisation is not covered.", "id": "service-unavailable-reference-missing-or-body-uncovered", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "A body-specific route is used or the unresolved gap is made explicit.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/755ffb2e13ffdba24a180ffd", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/34398a8bf2c481b424829d18" }, "route": "service-episode/notify-organisations-after-a-death-service-unavailable-reference-missing-or-body-uncovered", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Recipient's current official route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Recipient-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Synthetic contact and response record." }, "id": "fall-back-to-body-specific-route", "interaction": "Contact the body through its current official channel and record the result separately.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Remaining work stays visible." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Acknowledged, pending, failed or unresolved notification." }, "provider": "role:body-requiring-death-notification", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Recipient complaint or regulated redress where applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/46ed45a846a48c89fdfee513", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e4c363baf7ca77477a936749", "resource_route": "resource/notify-organisations-after-a-death-govuk-tell-us-once", "source_id": "govuk-tell-us-once" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b97f1529af11a5812d48cf9e", "resource_route": "resource/notify-organisations-after-a-death-nidirect-who-to-tell", "source_id": "nidirect-who-to-tell" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Body-specific evidence and authority to act." }, "route": "service-step/notify-organisations-after-a-death-service-unavailable-reference-missing-or-body-uncovered-fall-back-to-body-specific-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No notification success is inferred." }, "source_ids": [ "govuk-tell-us-once", "nidirect-who-to-tell" ], "time": { "reason": "Recipient-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Service unavailable reference missing or body uncovered" } ], "id": "notify-organisations-after-a-death", "interaction_boundary": "Discovery and notification tracking only; use of a route does not prove that data sharing or a body-specific notification succeeded.", "limitations": [ "Covered organisations and requirements can change and must be checked before use.", "Private organisations retain their own evidence and redress requirements." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Notify organisations after a death\n\nThis family records which body was told, by which route, using which evidence\nand at what time. [Tell Us Once](generated/browser/services/tell-us-once.html) is available only within its\nobserved England, Scotland and Wales residence boundary. Northern Ireland uses\nan independently sourced [manual notification route](generated/browser/services/northern-ireland-death-notifications.html).\n\nNeither route covers every private bank, insurer, pension provider, employer\nor utility. Each uncovered organisation retains its own current requirements.", "process_context": "Certify, register, notify and arrange after death", "source": "services/notify-organisations-after-a-death.md", "title": "Notify organisations after a death within Certify, register, notify and arrange after death" }, "process": { "id": "certify-register-notify-and-arrange-after-death", "route": "enclosing-process/certify-register-notify-and-arrange-after-death", "title": "Certify, register, notify and arrange after death" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-burial-or-cremation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-burial-or-cremation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange burial or cremation" }, { "id": "arrange-funeral", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-funeral", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange a funeral" }, { "id": "arrange-repatriation-after-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-repatriation-after-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange repatriation after death" }, { "id": "claim-bereavement-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-bereavement-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim bereavement support" }, { "id": "obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a medical certificate of cause of death" }, { "id": "refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal", "sequenced": false, "title": "Refer a death to a coroner or procurator fiscal" }, { "id": "register-a-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-a-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a death" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/19df98889aa115b1a0367799", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2781320ab36b5b6ad4879867" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/notify-organisations-after-a-death", "situations": [ "Government and private organisations need to be told after a death.", "Tell Us Once is unavailable, does not cover the residence, or does not cover a body." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "tell_us_once_service_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "govuk-tell-us-once", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England, Scotland and Wales" ], "limitations": [ "unavailable where the person lived in Northern Ireland or permanently abroad; private organisations remain outside the service" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Government Digital Service", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f0dc61c3cfc8034ba8d7ed15", "resource_id": "resource:notify-organisations-after-a-death:govuk-tell-us-once", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/notify-organisations-after-a-death-govuk-tell-us-once", "summary": "Tell Us Once availability for a person living in England, Scotland or Wales and its covered-government boundary", "title": "Tell Us Once availability for a person living in England, Scotland or Wales and its covered-government boundary", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/organisations-you-need-to-contact-and-tell-us-once" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_manual_death_notification_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "nidirect-who-to-tell", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "each body's current evidence, account and notification conditions remain controlling" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0a74826d17d86bf2e51e707a", "resource_id": "resource:notify-organisations-after-a-death:nidirect-who-to-tell", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/notify-organisations-after-a-death-nidirect-who-to-tell", "summary": "public and private bodies that may require separate notification in Northern Ireland", "title": "Public and private bodies that may require separate notification in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/who-tell-about-death" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_benefit_death_notification_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "nidirect-bereavement-service", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "not Tell Us Once and not notification of every public or private body" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Department for Communities Northern Ireland", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/60dfe996ea210bc9b1453f1a", "resource_id": "resource:notify-organisations-after-a-death:nidirect-bereavement-service", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/notify-organisations-after-a-death-nidirect-bereavement-service", "summary": "reporting a death to the Northern Ireland Department for Communities benefit offices", "title": "Reporting a death to the Northern Ireland Department for Communities benefit offices", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/bereavement-service-reporting-death" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Notify organisations after a death", "user_needs": [ "Find whether Tell Us Once applies and what it covers.", "Notify every uncovered public or private organisation separately.", "Retain evidence of each notification and unresolved response." ] }, { "aliases": [ "close bank accounts after death", "tell utilities someone died", "notify insurer landlord employer" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "notify-private-organisations-after-death-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "notify-private-organisations-after-death-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "notify-private-organisations-after-death-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "notify-private-organisations-after-death-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "notify-private-organisations-after-death-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "notify-private-organisations-after-death-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "notify-private-organisations-after-death-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "notify-private-organisations-after-death-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Build a controlled list of banks, insurers, landlords, employers, utilities and subscriptions outside public notification coverage and follow each bereavement 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unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5c07768509dcafa1c7558c9c", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b5b70ea2010dfc8a81bf4e2c", "resource_route": "resource/notify-private-organisations-after-death-notify-private-organisations-after-death-primary", "source_id": "notify-private-organisations-after-death-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/notify-private-organisations-after-death-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "notify-private-organisations-after-death-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "notify-private-organisations-after-death", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Notify private organisations after death\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Identify and administer an estate** in the **Death and bereavement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nBuild a controlled list of banks, insurers, landlords, employers, utilities and subscriptions outside public notification coverage and follow each bereavement route without sharing unnecessary data.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Organisations you need to contact and Tell Us Once](https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/organisations-you-need-to-contact-and-tell-us-once)\n- [Scotland: Organisations you need to contact and Tell Us Once](https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/organisations-you-need-to-contact-and-tell-us-once)\n- [Wales: Organisations you need to contact and Tell Us Once](https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/organisations-you-need-to-contact-and-tell-us-once)\n- [Northern Ireland: Organisations you need to contact and Tell Us Once](https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/organisations-you-need-to-contact-and-tell-us-once)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Identify and administer an estate**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Identify and administer an estate", "source": "services/notify-private-organisations-after-death.md", "title": "Notify private organisations after death within Identify and administer an estate" }, "process": { "id": "identify-and-administer-an-estate", "route": "enclosing-process/identify-and-administer-an-estate", "title": "Identify and administer an estate" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "administer-an-estate", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/administer-an-estate", "sequenced": false, "title": "Administer an estate" }, { "id": "locate-or-prove-will", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/locate-or-prove-will", "sequenced": false, "title": "Locate or prove a will" }, { "id": "pay-inheritance-tax", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/pay-inheritance-tax", "sequenced": false, "title": "Pay Inheritance Tax" }, { "id": "settle-estate-debts", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/settle-estate-debts", "sequenced": false, "title": "Settle estate debts" }, { "id": "update-property-records-after-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/update-property-records-after-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Update property records after death" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e7eee40c8e1a305760db23e1", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e3108ec4e2ba3217c5fe1e7b" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/notify-private-organisations-after-death", "situations": [ "A bereaved person or estate representative must notify private organisations and settle or transfer accounts." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_after_death_notification_scope", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "notify-private-organisations-after-death-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not contact organisations, establish estate authority, close accounts or apply Northern Ireland Tell Us Once coverage." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Cabinet Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fb39c9b9b1085e5b8b4e440f", "resource_id": "resource:notify-private-organisations-after-death:notify-private-organisations-after-death-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/notify-private-organisations-after-death-notify-private-organisations-after-death-primary", "summary": "Identifies public notification scope and prompts separate contact with banks, mortgage, pension, insurer and other organisations.", "title": "Organisations you need to contact and Tell Us Once", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/organisations-you-need-to-contact-and-tell-us-once" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Notify private organisations after death", "user_needs": [ "Distinguish authority to notify from authority to close, transfer, claim or distribute." ] }, { "aliases": [ "order a birth certificate", "get a copy birth record" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "obtain-birth-certificates-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "obtain-birth-certificates-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "obtain-birth-certificates-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "obtain-birth-certificates-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Find the responsible registration authority and order an official copy of a birth certificate.", "domain": { "id": "birth-and-newborn", "route": "life-course-domain/birth-and-newborn", "title": "Birth and the newborn period" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person needs an official birth certificate after registration or for a later process.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Find the responsible registration authority and order an official copy of a birth certificate.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/aedd44593b7d6d1d09426eae", "family_episode": 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"resource/obtain-birth-certificates-birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-birth-certificates-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-birth-certificates-primary", "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { 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"service-step/obtain-birth-certificates-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-birth-certificates-primary", "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/949b1b527da1a142c04b9fec", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3123d298aac210540b1ef2b8" }, "route": "service-episode/obtain-birth-certificates-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f970b58cac859cf6c6fbda0d", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4382b33ae182d3d597baa2fe", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-birth-certificates-obtain-birth-certificates-primary", "source_id": "obtain-birth-certificates-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a39e8bca8b49b0bd3669acfd", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-birth-certificates-birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f2ba9b431c7db4e66bba2679", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-birth-certificates-birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-birth-certificates-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-birth-certificates-primary", "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "obtain-birth-certificates", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Obtain birth certificates\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish a child's legal identity** in the **Birth and the newborn period** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind the responsible registration authority and order an official copy of a birth certificate.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Order a birth, death, marriage or civil partnership certificate](https://www.gov.uk/order-copy-birth-death-marriage-certificate)\n- [Scotland: Register a birth in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/register-birth)\n- [Wales: Order a birth, death, marriage or civil partnership certificate](https://www.gov.uk/order-copy-birth-death-marriage-certificate)\n- [Northern Ireland: Registering and naming your baby](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/registering-and-naming-your-baby)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish a child's legal identity**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish a child's legal identity", "source": "services/obtain-birth-certificates.md", "title": "Obtain birth certificates within Establish a child's legal identity" }, "process": { "id": "establish-a-childs-legal-identity", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-a-childs-legal-identity", "title": "Establish a child's legal identity" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "check-child-nationality-status", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-child-nationality-status", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check a child's nationality status" }, { "id": "claim-child-benefit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-child-benefit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Child Benefit" }, { "id": "correct-a-birth-registration", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/correct-a-birth-registration", "sequenced": false, "title": "Correct a birth registration" }, { "id": "establish-parental-responsibility", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/establish-parental-responsibility", "sequenced": false, "title": "Establish parental responsibility" }, { "id": "obtain-child-passport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-child-passport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a child passport" }, { "id": "register-a-birth", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-a-birth", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a birth" }, { "id": "register-a-stillbirth", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-a-stillbirth", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a stillbirth" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2081ff00a7a34bab29df14aa", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/addf47840505913db90f41b5" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/obtain-birth-certificates", "situations": [ "A person needs an official birth certificate after registration or for a later process." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_certificate_ordering_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "obtain-birth-certificates-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not guarantee a record match, delivery time, identity use or another nation's register." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "General Register Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0d9c3a296b38f74e78f7a753", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-birth-certificates:obtain-birth-certificates-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-birth-certificates-obtain-birth-certificates-primary", "summary": "Routes people to current certificate-ordering services for England and Wales and signposts other registers.", "title": "Order a birth, death, marriage or civil partnership certificate", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/order-copy-birth-death-marriage-certificate" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_birth_registration_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove another newborn family's clinical, benefit, passport or nationality rules." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/14ab27e7805c643708195ff5", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-birth-certificates:birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-birth-certificates-birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Scotland through the current birth-registration service and its local registrar handoff.", "title": "Register a birth in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/register-birth" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_birth_and_newborn_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove every newborn health, benefit, passport or nationality rule." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8ca91c434f65fb7b280168ca", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-birth-certificates:birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-birth-certificates-birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Explains Northern Ireland birth registration and the registration-card handoff into GP registration.", "title": "Registering and naming your baby", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/registering-and-naming-your-baby" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Obtain birth certificates", "user_needs": [ "Identify the correct register, search details, fee and delivery route." ] }, { "aliases": [ "find business permit", "apply for trading licence", "licence finder" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "obtain-business-licence-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "obtain-business-licence-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "organisation-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "organisation-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "obtain-business-licence-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "obtain-business-licence-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "organisation-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "organisation-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Identify every activity and place that may require consent and apply to the named national, devolved or local licensing authority.", "domain": { "id": "starting-and-running-organisation", "route": "life-course-domain/starting-and-running-organisation", "title": "Starting and running an organisation" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "An organisation plans an activity that may require a licence, registration, permit or consent.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Identify every activity and place that may require consent and apply to the named national, devolved or local licensing authority.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e3f0014ae40cc3f4da04c361", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bd4cf79ac9eab2bd6cb65a53" }, "route": "service-episode/obtain-business-licence-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4ce8f00c89af61394e03cdc1", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6684c3cd741c001ebc8c8088", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/68c9d0612c3e2c40a520cf18", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-business-licence-obtain-business-licence-primary", "source_id": "obtain-business-licence-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e10a35c9f882e5093d4bdf18", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-business-licence-organisation-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "organisation-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/675496f4f3c8ea15301310f4", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-business-licence-organisation-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "organisation-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-business-licence-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-business-licence-primary", "organisation-scotland-handoff", "organisation-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to obtain a business licence and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Identify every activity and place that may require consent and apply to the named national, devolved or local licensing authority." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ebcad37811f54761d260959e", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/908b08e5091b960d1b53bebe", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/887a703e5b373e88f2903b89", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-business-licence-obtain-business-licence-primary", "source_id": "obtain-business-licence-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d7c12233f77be587f8147202", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-business-licence-organisation-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "organisation-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/649fe2ff2f3137e32dcf3e55", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-business-licence-organisation-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "organisation-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-business-licence-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-business-licence-primary", "organisation-scotland-handoff", "organisation-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2b6a74143b79960f61395255", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e0854fa28b335d2b389cf2f2" }, "route": "service-episode/obtain-business-licence-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8c85db9a4c4b5a032ec0f205", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ccf9babe6dcfafe7c04fc5e7", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-business-licence-obtain-business-licence-primary", "source_id": "obtain-business-licence-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/eee41f6cdefdec83738bd8c5", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-business-licence-organisation-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "organisation-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/91e7a76cee4ee05a41642c95", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-business-licence-organisation-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "organisation-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-business-licence-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-business-licence-primary", "organisation-scotland-handoff", "organisation-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "obtain-business-licence", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Obtain a business licence\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Operate, regulate and close an organisation** in the **Starting and running an organisation** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify every activity and place that may require consent and apply to the named national, devolved or local licensing authority.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Licence finder](https://www.gov.uk/licence-finder)\n- [Scotland: Business support in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/business-support)\n- [Wales: Licence finder](https://www.gov.uk/licence-finder)\n- [Northern Ireland: Starting a business in Northern Ireland](https://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/starting-business)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Operate, regulate and close an organisation**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Operate, regulate and close an organisation", "source": "services/obtain-business-licence.md", "title": "Obtain a business licence within Operate, regulate and close an organisation" }, "process": { "id": "operate-regulate-and-close-an-organisation", "route": "enclosing-process/operate-regulate-and-close-an-organisation", "title": "Operate, regulate and close an organisation" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "bid-for-public-contract", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/bid-for-public-contract", "sequenced": false, "title": "Bid for a public contract" }, { "id": "close-or-insolvent-business", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/close-or-insolvent-business", "sequenced": false, "title": "Close or make a business insolvent" }, { "id": "meet-workplace-safety-duties", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/meet-workplace-safety-duties", "sequenced": false, "title": "Meet workplace safety duties" }, { "id": "register-data-protection-fee", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-data-protection-fee", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a data-protection fee" }, { "id": "run-payroll", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/run-payroll", "sequenced": false, "title": "Run payroll" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ff45893c33b1b476c58da552", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b7ecf5ee981ac3519da3053f" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/obtain-business-licence", "situations": [ "An organisation plans an activity that may require a licence, registration, permit or consent." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_business_licence_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "obtain-business-licence-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify every local, Scottish or Northern Ireland licence or grant consent." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Business and Trade", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8172e25235a57698566b2814", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-business-licence:obtain-business-licence-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-business-licence-obtain-business-licence-primary", "summary": "Routes England and Wales businesses to many activity-specific licence authorities.", "title": "Licence finder", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/licence-finder" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_business_support_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "organisation-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not choose a legal form, register an organisation, decide tax or grant eligibility or replace regulators." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/29cc2ef8fc149f9f31e26b57", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-business-licence:organisation-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-business-licence-organisation-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes organisations to current Scottish startup, funding, licensing and operating support.", "title": "Business support in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/business-support" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_business_support_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "organisation-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not register an organisation, decide legal form or replace Companies House, HMRC or a licensing authority." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Invest Northern Ireland", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/69041c49fdd32975e9a46650", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-business-licence:organisation-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-business-licence-organisation-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes organisations to 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urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3b718248dcb591bfb3e99a33", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/30915729e5cb832e2f18ba23", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-child-passport-obtain-child-passport-primary", "source_id": "obtain-child-passport-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined 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where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Obtain a child passport\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish a child's legal identity** in the **Birth and the newborn period** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the current HM Passport Office route for a child's first, renewed or replacement passport.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Get a passport for your child](https://www.gov.uk/get-a-child-passport)\n- [Scotland: Get a passport for your child](https://www.gov.uk/get-a-child-passport)\n- [Wales: Get a passport for your child](https://www.gov.uk/get-a-child-passport)\n- [Northern Ireland: Get a passport for your child](https://www.gov.uk/get-a-child-passport)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish a child's legal identity**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish a child's legal identity", "source": "services/obtain-child-passport.md", "title": "Obtain a child passport within Establish a child's legal identity" }, "process": { "id": "establish-a-childs-legal-identity", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-a-childs-legal-identity", "title": "Establish a child's legal identity" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "check-child-nationality-status", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-child-nationality-status", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check a child's nationality status" }, { "id": "claim-child-benefit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-child-benefit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Child Benefit" }, { "id": "correct-a-birth-registration", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/correct-a-birth-registration", "sequenced": false, "title": "Correct a birth registration" }, { "id": "establish-parental-responsibility", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/establish-parental-responsibility", "sequenced": false, "title": "Establish parental responsibility" }, { "id": "obtain-birth-certificates", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-birth-certificates", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain birth certificates" }, { "id": "register-a-birth", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-a-birth", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a birth" }, { "id": "register-a-stillbirth", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-a-stillbirth", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a 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provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-concessionary-travel-primary", "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7e42727f1a06bd16ba02cecf", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a125a6a3d66ea9e9c61b4cd6" }, "route": "service-episode/obtain-concessionary-travel-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/eb08afe65091c16267c7b4ae", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0e2a264dfa1a976b4ae62fe6", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-concessionary-travel-obtain-concessionary-travel-primary", "source_id": "obtain-concessionary-travel-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6d3783bd12349da94bd41782", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-concessionary-travel-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0c44d53c210f87a44581c76c", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-concessionary-travel-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d687d38f82386cad6677f916", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-concessionary-travel-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-concessionary-travel-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-concessionary-travel-primary", "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "obtain-concessionary-travel", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Obtain concessionary travel\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Obtain accessible and community mobility** in the **Public and private transport** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nApply to the responsible national or local scheme and retain eligibility, card, renewal and appeal information.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Apply for an older person's bus pass](https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-elderly-person-bus-pass)\n- [Scotland: Transport and travel in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport)\n- [Wales: Transport in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/transport)\n- [Northern Ireland: Travel, transport and roads in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/travel-transport-and-roads)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Obtain accessible and community mobility**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Obtain accessible and community mobility", "source": "services/obtain-concessionary-travel.md", "title": "Obtain concessionary travel within Obtain accessible and community mobility" }, "process": { "id": "obtain-accessible-and-community-mobility", "route": "enclosing-process/obtain-accessible-and-community-mobility", "title": "Obtain accessible and community mobility" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-blue-badge", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-blue-badge", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a Blue Badge" }, { "id": "license-taxi-or-private-hire", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/license-taxi-or-private-hire", "sequenced": false, "title": "License a taxi or private-hire service" }, { "id": "plan-accessible-public-transport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/plan-accessible-public-transport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Plan accessible public transport" }, { "id": "use-community-transport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-community-transport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use community transport" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/002403604684dc6ca07ce166", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2c69fa6edaf706caf7897ab8" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/obtain-concessionary-travel", "situations": [ "A person may qualify by age, disability or another governed category for discounted public transport." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_older_person_bus_pass_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "obtain-concessionary-travel-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide age, residence, disability or companion entitlement and does not cover all schemes." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/80c1642d4795db055dcf4df4", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-concessionary-travel:obtain-concessionary-travel-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-concessionary-travel-obtain-concessionary-travel-primary", "summary": "Routes England applicants to the local authority older-person bus-pass service.", "title": "Apply for an older person's bus pass", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-elderly-person-bus-pass" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England concession, permit or operator-licensing route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e38129f64e114b9678d833fb", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-concessionary-travel:public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-concessionary-travel-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish public, accessible, local and road-transport services.", "title": "Transport and travel in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport" }, { "authority_role": "wales_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine a local permit, concession, operator licence or journey accessibility." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f82e32f12fa4b62808184349", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-concessionary-travel:public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-concessionary-travel-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh transport policy, concessions and service information.", "title": "Transport in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/transport" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain vehicle and local-transport pages do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/46cd5b99d1bef8b569d57e1c", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-concessionary-travel:public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-concessionary-travel-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland public-transport, motoring and road services.", "title": "Travel, transport and roads in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/travel-transport-and-roads" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Obtain concessionary travel", "user_needs": [ "Find the scheme for the journey and residence location without assuming one UK entitlement." ] }, { "aliases": [ "emergency passport abroad", "lost passport overseas", "urgent travel document" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "obtain-emergency-travel-document-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "obtain-emergency-travel-document-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "obtain-emergency-travel-document-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "obtain-emergency-travel-document-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "obtain-emergency-travel-document-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "obtain-emergency-travel-document-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "obtain-emergency-travel-document-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "obtain-emergency-travel-document-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Confirm the need and journey, use the official application route and follow identity, evidence, fee, collection and destination acceptance steps.", "domain": { "id": "holidays-volunteering-and-living-overseas", "route": "life-course-domain/holidays-volunteering-and-living-overseas", "title": "Holidays, volunteering and living overseas" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A British national abroad cannot use their passport for urgent travel.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Confirm the need and journey, use the official application route and follow identity, evidence, fee, collection and destination acceptance steps.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/53038aad7f3e9f99cc1cb454", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6031dadca144bb4265deb73f" }, "route": "service-episode/obtain-emergency-travel-document-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/267deb9191726c384b3a6130", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/86d2e950d1c583a39b3c3efb", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/434cff1e4ec3bbcd9301cf86", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-emergency-travel-document-obtain-emergency-travel-document-primary", "source_id": "obtain-emergency-travel-document-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-emergency-travel-document-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-emergency-travel-document-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to obtain an emergency travel document and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Confirm the need and journey, use the official application route and follow identity, evidence, fee, collection and destination acceptance steps." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ad972d65e0fbb474049351cd", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a4ced48bf96d084ade6d3ddc", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c29286f87a169d0641d56fcf", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-emergency-travel-document-obtain-emergency-travel-document-primary", "source_id": "obtain-emergency-travel-document-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-emergency-travel-document-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-emergency-travel-document-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/81401603e16b635b5780dea4", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0b3a32d363f0c6e348540087" }, "route": "service-episode/obtain-emergency-travel-document-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dba2c8c4e7b3097dfeede8c8", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f38ed36d8a7762ff19da2046", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-emergency-travel-document-obtain-emergency-travel-document-primary", "source_id": "obtain-emergency-travel-document-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-emergency-travel-document-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-emergency-travel-document-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "obtain-emergency-travel-document", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Obtain an emergency travel document\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Live, work and get help overseas** in the **Holidays, volunteering and living overseas** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nConfirm the need and journey, use the official application route and follow identity, evidence, fee, collection and destination acceptance steps.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Apply for an emergency travel document](https://www.gov.uk/emergency-travel-document)\n- [Scotland: Apply for an emergency travel document](https://www.gov.uk/emergency-travel-document)\n- [Wales: Apply for an emergency travel document](https://www.gov.uk/emergency-travel-document)\n- [Northern Ireland: Apply for an emergency travel document](https://www.gov.uk/emergency-travel-document)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Live, work and get help overseas**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Live, work and get help overseas", "source": "services/obtain-emergency-travel-document.md", "title": "Obtain an emergency travel document within Live, work and get help overseas" }, "process": { "id": "live-work-and-get-help-overseas", "route": "enclosing-process/live-work-and-get-help-overseas", "title": "Live, work and get help overseas" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-consular-assistance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-consular-assistance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get consular assistance" }, { "id": "get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get help after a serious incident abroad" }, { "id": "manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad", "sequenced": false, "title": "Manage tax, National Insurance, benefits and pensions abroad" }, { "id": "study-or-volunteer-overseas", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/study-or-volunteer-overseas", "sequenced": false, "title": "Study or volunteer overseas" }, { "id": "work-overseas", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/work-overseas", "sequenced": false, "title": "Work overseas" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1426b644e07f526e1985f62f", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c5d7797923caf8dbfef87966" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/obtain-emergency-travel-document", "situations": [ "A British national abroad cannot use their passport for urgent travel." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_emergency_travel_document", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "obtain-emergency-travel-document-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not guarantee issue, timing, transit acceptance or entry at a destination." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/23d7aa1659684fc5cd29d009", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-emergency-travel-document:obtain-emergency-travel-document-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": 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only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Obtain a GHIC or EHIC\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Prepare for international travel** in the **Holidays, volunteering and living overseas** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck which reciprocal-healthcare card applies, apply through the official route and understand that travel insurance and local charges may still be required.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Applying for healthcare cover abroad](https://www.gov.uk/global-health-insurance-card)\n- [Scotland: Applying for healthcare cover abroad](https://www.gov.uk/global-health-insurance-card)\n- [Wales: Applying for healthcare cover abroad](https://www.gov.uk/global-health-insurance-card)\n- [Northern Ireland: Applying for healthcare cover abroad](https://www.gov.uk/global-health-insurance-card)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Prepare for international travel**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Prepare for international travel", "source": "services/obtain-ghic-or-ehic.md", "title": "Obtain a GHIC or EHIC within Prepare for international travel" }, "process": { "id": "prepare-for-international-travel", "route": "enclosing-process/prepare-for-international-travel", "title": "Prepare for international travel" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "buy-travel-insurance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/buy-travel-insurance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Buy travel insurance" }, { "id": "check-entry-requirements", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-entry-requirements", "sequenced": 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c049beab51638982138f7327", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death-obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death-primary", "source_id": "obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7bde99b6ebcc2bf5d4930369", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death-death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "death-bereavement-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1185d7fbffbadf9aa49b3559", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death-death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death-primary", "death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Obtain a medical certificate of cause of death\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Certify, register, notify and arrange after death** in the **Death and bereavement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFollow the responsible medical examiner or practitioner process for certification and use the coroner or procurator-fiscal route when certification is not available.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Medical certificate of cause of death guidance](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death-mccd-guidance-for-medical-practitioners)\n- [Scotland: Births, deaths and family in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family)\n- [Wales: Medical certificate of cause of death guidance](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death-mccd-guidance-for-medical-practitioners)\n- [Northern Ireland: What to do when someone dies](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/births-deaths-baby-loss-marriages-and-civil-partnerships/death-and)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Certify, register, notify and arrange after death**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Certify, register, notify and arrange after death", "source": "services/obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death.md", "title": "Obtain a medical certificate of cause of death within Certify, register, notify and arrange after death" }, "process": { "id": "certify-register-notify-and-arrange-after-death", "route": "enclosing-process/certify-register-notify-and-arrange-after-death", "title": "Certify, register, notify and arrange after death" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-burial-or-cremation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-burial-or-cremation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange burial or cremation" }, { "id": "arrange-funeral", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-funeral", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange a funeral" }, { "id": "arrange-repatriation-after-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-repatriation-after-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange repatriation after death" }, { "id": "claim-bereavement-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-bereavement-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim bereavement support" }, { "id": "notify-organisations-after-a-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/notify-organisations-after-a-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Notify organisations after a death" }, { "id": "refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal", "sequenced": false, "title": "Refer a death to a coroner or procurator fiscal" }, { "id": "register-a-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-a-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a death" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/312811aa20da0ed676ca31ac", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/709d9472990961a6c69ace75" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death", "situations": [ "A death needs medical certification before registration unless it enters an investigation route." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_mccd_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not certify an 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"scotland_death_bereavement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide cause, investigation, informant status, succession, tax or individual entitlement." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0f53670b96be9688157dfe97", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death:death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death-death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes bereaved people to current Scottish registration, funeral, support and estate information.", "title": "Births, deaths and family in Scotland", "url": 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notification, benefit and estate information.", "title": "What to do when someone dies", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/births-deaths-baby-loss-marriages-and-civil-partnerships/death-and" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Obtain a medical certificate of cause of death", "user_needs": [ "Understand the certification handoff without the bundle determining cause of death or issuing a document." ] }, { "aliases": [ "book MOT", "vehicle roadworthiness certificate", "check MOT result" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "obtain-mot-test-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "obtain-mot-test-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": 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"supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Check when testing applies, use an approved test station and retain the certificate, advisory and failure information.", "domain": { "id": "public-and-private-transport", "route": "life-course-domain/public-and-private-transport", "title": "Public and private transport" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A vehicle keeper needs to meet the applicable periodic roadworthiness-test requirement.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Check when testing applies, use an approved test station and retain the certificate, advisory and failure information.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ed6e4f960c4957466ba167ff", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2c95dd23cfaf2bf6fe432971" }, "route": "service-episode/obtain-mot-test-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4bea5a127d6d33822a5f7eb8", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/223d03a36fd71bf5de6d49cf", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ddb3e0006a978231eb36de00", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-mot-test-obtain-mot-test-primary", "source_id": "obtain-mot-test-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/190707a899465e830a17c995", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-mot-test-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/16f1525bfd4e0f618b030514", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-mot-test-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": 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"Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/379141d1f4f90dacd533f290", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/493290588e83951119b159d3" }, "route": "service-episode/obtain-mot-test-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the 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"resource/obtain-mot-test-obtain-mot-test-primary", "source_id": "obtain-mot-test-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f7473909a595d768989fbdc9", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-mot-test-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8e395e83ec25e4548238349d", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-mot-test-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/82d1d8843271926aa0a508c8", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-mot-test-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-mot-test-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-mot-test-primary", "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "obtain-mot-test", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Obtain an MOT test\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Own and use a road vehicle** in the **Public and private transport** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck when testing applies, use an approved test station and retain the certificate, advisory and failure information.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Getting an MOT](https://www.gov.uk/getting-an-mot)\n- [Scotland: Transport and travel in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport)\n- [Wales: Transport in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/transport)\n- [Northern Ireland: Travel, transport and roads in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/travel-transport-and-roads)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Own and use a road vehicle**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Own and use a road vehicle", "source": "services/obtain-mot-test.md", "title": "Obtain an MOT test within Own and use a road vehicle" }, "process": { "id": "own-and-use-a-road-vehicle", "route": "enclosing-process/own-and-use-a-road-vehicle", "title": "Own and use a road vehicle" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-parking-permit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-parking-permit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a parking permit" }, { "id": "obtain-motor-insurance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-motor-insurance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain motor insurance" }, { "id": "pay-clean-air-zone-charge", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/pay-clean-air-zone-charge", "sequenced": false, "title": "Pay a clean air zone charge" }, { "id": "register-vehicle", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-vehicle", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a vehicle" }, { "id": "report-road-collision", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-road-collision", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a road collision" }, { "id": "tax-or-sorn-vehicle", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/tax-or-sorn-vehicle", "sequenced": false, "title": "Tax or make a SORN for a vehicle" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3ff982ae2b8a519732831f2c", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6426e298b6054337f83a835d" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/obtain-mot-test", "situations": [ "A vehicle keeper needs to meet the applicable periodic roadworthiness-test requirement." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_mot_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "obtain-mot-test-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not inspect a vehicle, guarantee roadworthiness or establish Northern Ireland testing procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5ae94f76fdb08409267f62aa", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-mot-test:obtain-mot-test-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-mot-test-obtain-mot-test-primary", "summary": "Explains Great Britain MOT timing, approved centres, results and appeal handoffs.", "title": "Getting an MOT", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/getting-an-mot" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England concession, permit or operator-licensing route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5e1d65666b2ab1fd8c99de6a", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-mot-test:public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-mot-test-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish public, accessible, local and road-transport services.", "title": "Transport and travel in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport" }, { "authority_role": "wales_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine a local permit, concession, operator licence or journey accessibility." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/16a6440e9ec067547928d859", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-mot-test:public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-mot-test-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh transport policy, concessions and service information.", "title": "Transport in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/transport" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain vehicle and local-transport pages do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2d6804b926f6d38c15f69472", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-mot-test:public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-mot-test-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland public-transport, motoring and road services.", "title": "Travel, transport and roads in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/travel-transport-and-roads" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Obtain an MOT test", "user_needs": [ "Verify the approved provider and understand test, repair, retest and appeal boundaries." ] }, { "aliases": [ "car insurance legal requirement", "insure a vehicle", "check motor insurer" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "obtain-motor-insurance-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "obtain-motor-insurance-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Use an authorised insurer or intermediary to obtain cover suitable for the vehicle and use, then retain policy and certificate evidence.", "domain": { "id": "public-and-private-transport", "route": "life-course-domain/public-and-private-transport", "title": "Public and private transport" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person will keep or use a motor vehicle and needs the applicable compulsory cover.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Use an authorised insurer or intermediary to obtain cover suitable for the vehicle and use, then retain policy and certificate evidence.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1415603d1f00dbf558c635db", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/adf46d03989f419bd090bdcc" }, "route": "service-episode/obtain-motor-insurance-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/415db43bdf5e1161e48ad17e", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ddafbbad7fe093c2930f5789", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b726c1c23033217853b3b986", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-motor-insurance-obtain-motor-insurance-primary", "source_id": "obtain-motor-insurance-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f98a096d02559e1c381b22ae", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-motor-insurance-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/433c21bcf7675e8f7534116a", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-motor-insurance-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7d96d1a5bb8dc0431ab2f6d2", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-motor-insurance-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-motor-insurance-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-motor-insurance-primary", "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to obtain motor insurance and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use an authorised insurer or intermediary to obtain cover suitable for the vehicle and use, then retain policy and certificate evidence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/adb35196fe63113f9309d573", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/429e70b6242fcbf250f3c229", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8e09d3210eaa6de6a476d477", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-motor-insurance-obtain-motor-insurance-primary", "source_id": "obtain-motor-insurance-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4184518f212481e4387bf8bd", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-motor-insurance-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3aaf8283921737de5fbed21f", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-motor-insurance-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/468f3789dd2dfac5288feccc", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-motor-insurance-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-motor-insurance-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-motor-insurance-primary", "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7f7e726b5b9fef4d4ceb2a46", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a28615dca435a0a937df25f0" }, "route": "service-episode/obtain-motor-insurance-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6760e8c9d92edf8742ef5ff9", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/033e69f1a291e47b2fa2e250", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-motor-insurance-obtain-motor-insurance-primary", "source_id": "obtain-motor-insurance-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ca8aa2330f7f3cd5167c858e", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-motor-insurance-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d7c4b0a606acba3af97bec91", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-motor-insurance-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6f3bd3c219bd8ae00aa98e7d", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-motor-insurance-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-motor-insurance-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-motor-insurance-primary", "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "obtain-motor-insurance", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Obtain motor insurance\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Own and use a road vehicle** in the **Public and private transport** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse an authorised insurer or intermediary to obtain cover suitable for the vehicle and use, then retain policy and certificate evidence.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Vehicle insurance](https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-insurance)\n- [Scotland: Transport and travel in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport)\n- [Wales: Transport in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/transport)\n- [Northern Ireland: Travel, transport and roads in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/travel-transport-and-roads)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Own and use a road vehicle**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Own and use a road vehicle", "source": "services/obtain-motor-insurance.md", "title": "Obtain motor insurance within Own and use a road vehicle" }, "process": { "id": "own-and-use-a-road-vehicle", "route": "enclosing-process/own-and-use-a-road-vehicle", "title": "Own and use a road vehicle" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-parking-permit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-parking-permit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a parking permit" }, { "id": "obtain-mot-test", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-mot-test", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain an MOT test" }, { "id": "pay-clean-air-zone-charge", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/pay-clean-air-zone-charge", "sequenced": false, "title": "Pay a clean air zone charge" }, { "id": "register-vehicle", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-vehicle", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a vehicle" }, { "id": "report-road-collision", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-road-collision", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a road collision" }, { "id": "tax-or-sorn-vehicle", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/tax-or-sorn-vehicle", "sequenced": false, "title": "Tax or make a SORN for a vehicle" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fa73e211d8c8b7c00d93ddc3", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a1a4e34718b47b85b7deb6d5" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/obtain-motor-insurance", "situations": [ "A person will keep or use a motor vehicle and needs the applicable compulsory cover." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_vehicle_insurance_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "obtain-motor-insurance-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not recommend or arrange a policy, assess risk, set a premium or decide a claim." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Transport", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c55e79432dbfeba1bf0b49e6", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-motor-insurance:obtain-motor-insurance-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-motor-insurance-obtain-motor-insurance-primary", "summary": "Explains compulsory motor-insurance responsibilities and official enforcement handoffs.", "title": "Vehicle insurance", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-insurance" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England concession, permit or operator-licensing route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3e2e9c0e0d66e13f9669c58e", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-motor-insurance:public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-motor-insurance-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish public, accessible, local and road-transport services.", "title": "Transport and travel in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport" }, { "authority_role": "wales_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine a local permit, concession, operator licence or journey accessibility." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5831b10e1e7a66e5cfe45156", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-motor-insurance:public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-motor-insurance-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh 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people to current Northern Ireland public-transport, motoring and road services.", "title": "Travel, transport and roads in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/travel-transport-and-roads" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Obtain motor insurance", "user_needs": [ "Start with regulated-provider checks and distinguish legal minimum cover from personal product selection." ] }, { "aliases": [ "free solicitor at police station", "legal advice in custody", "duty solicitor" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "obtain-police-station-legal-advice-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "obtain-police-station-legal-advice-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": 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"resource_route": "resource/obtain-police-station-legal-advice-police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-police-station-legal-advice-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-police-station-legal-advice-primary", "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "obtain-police-station-legal-advice", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Obtain police-station legal advice\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Obtain legal help and use adjudication** in the **Police and legal services** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nAsk for independent legal advice through the custody or voluntary-interview route before answering questions where that right applies.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Legal advice at the police station](https://www.gov.uk/arrested-your-rights/legal-advice-at-the-police-station)\n- [Scotland: Crime, justice and the law in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/crime-justice-law)\n- [Wales: Legal advice at the police station](https://www.gov.uk/arrested-your-rights/legal-advice-at-the-police-station)\n- [Northern Ireland: Crime, justice and the law in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/crime-justice-and-law)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Obtain legal help and use adjudication**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Obtain legal help and use adjudication", "source": "services/obtain-police-station-legal-advice.md", "title": "Obtain police-station legal advice within Obtain legal help and use adjudication" }, "process": { "id": "obtain-legal-help-and-use-adjudication", "route": "enclosing-process/obtain-legal-help-and-use-adjudication", "title": "Obtain legal help and use adjudication" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision", "sequenced": false, "title": "Appeal a court or tribunal decision" }, { "id": "get-legal-aid", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-legal-aid", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get legal aid" }, { "id": "use-civil-or-family-court", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-civil-or-family-court", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a civil or family court" }, { "id": "use-tribunal", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-tribunal", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a tribunal" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3fc92b2200de1ac7cc9b565c", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/63d31daf4f4bdfbf1bb0822b" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/obtain-police-station-legal-advice", "situations": [ "A person is arrested, detained or asked to attend a police interview as a suspect." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_police_station_legal_advice", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "obtain-police-station-legal-advice-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not provide legal advice, select a representative or establish Scotland or Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Home Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ef19cfd53ef8619d6bc5fe3b", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-police-station-legal-advice:obtain-police-station-legal-advice-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-police-station-legal-advice-obtain-police-station-legal-advice-primary", "summary": "Explains England and Wales access to free independent legal advice at a police station.", "title": "Legal advice at the police station", "url": 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courts and tribunal services.", "title": "Crime, justice and the law in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/crime-justice-and-law" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Obtain police-station legal advice", "user_needs": [ "Reach the duty or chosen solicitor without the bundle advising on silence, interview or plea." ] }, { "aliases": [ "get photo ID", "prove age as a young person" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "provider": 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"resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bbd054f26f7a365c29bfc9c2", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/145d67fe4192ae237c7a37d5", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity-obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity-primary", "source_id": "obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bb6686984d4d81b6983554ad", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity-transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1b1df971eda336e1f638210e", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity-transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/520d0252447f7d669f278092", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity-transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity-primary", "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Obtain proof of age or identity\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish adult work, civic and identity records** in the **Transition to adulthood** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSelect an authoritative identity route for the intended purpose and obtain the required evidence.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Apply online for a first adult passport](https://www.gov.uk/apply-first-adult-passport)\n- [Scotland: Education and training in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Young people in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish adult work, civic and identity records**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish adult work, civic and identity records", "source": "services/obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity.md", "title": "Obtain proof of age or identity within Establish adult work, civic and identity records" }, "process": { "id": "establish-adult-work-civic-and-identity-records", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-adult-work-civic-and-identity-records", "title": "Establish adult work, civic and identity records" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-careers-advice", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-careers-advice", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get careers advice" }, { "id": "receive-national-insurance-number", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-national-insurance-number", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive a National Insurance number" }, { "id": "register-to-vote-for-first-time", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-to-vote-for-first-time", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register to vote for the first time" }, { "id": "start-apprenticeship", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-apprenticeship", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start an apprenticeship" }, { "id": "start-first-job", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-first-job", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start a first job" }, { "id": "verify-qualifications", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/verify-qualifications", "sequenced": false, "title": "Verify qualifications" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0f0c7a3a5c241cfd9d4e540c", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ae89da3162eb22f59b4200ea" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity", "situations": [ "A young person needs accepted proof of identity, age or nationality." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_first_adult_passport_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "A passport is not the only proof-of-age route and the bundle does not decide eligibility or document acceptance." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "HM Passport Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ed142f91d45b930bfdf4ccf5", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity:obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity-obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity-primary", "summary": "Provides an authoritative UK passport identity route for eligible first-time adult applicants.", "title": "Apply online for a first adult passport", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/apply-first-adult-passport" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": 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"post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to obtain research ethics approval and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Identify the sponsor, institutional and statutory approvals applicable to a proposed study before it begins." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": 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regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4e07cb34dded8f4c41732a20", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1fec80407921897352a44ce2", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-research-ethics-approval-obtain-research-ethics-approval-primary", "source_id": "obtain-research-ethics-approval-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d5f713d77c985333bcd94203", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-research-ethics-approval-post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/de5ed869670c6caac5889df1", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-research-ethics-approval-post-school-study-wales-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/df88bb8ab4ad7b3778d883b2", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-research-ethics-approval-post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-research-ethics-approval-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-research-ethics-approval-primary", "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "obtain-research-ethics-approval", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Obtain research ethics approval\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Conduct and recognise research and qualifications** in the **Further education, university and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the sponsor, institutional and statutory approvals applicable to a proposed study before it begins.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Health Research Authority](https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/health-research-authority/about)\n- [Scotland: Further and higher education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Further and higher education in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Higher education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education/higher-education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Conduct and recognise research and qualifications**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Conduct and recognise research and qualifications", "source": "services/obtain-research-ethics-approval.md", "title": "Obtain research ethics approval within Conduct and recognise research and qualifications" }, "process": { "id": "conduct-and-recognise-research-and-qualifications", "route": "enclosing-process/conduct-and-recognise-research-and-qualifications", "title": "Conduct and recognise research and qualifications" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-academic-qualification-recognised", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-academic-qualification-recognised", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get an academic qualification recognised" }, { "id": "manage-university-intellectual-property", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/manage-university-intellectual-property", "sequenced": false, "title": "Manage university intellectual property" }, { "id": "seek-research-funding", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/seek-research-funding", "sequenced": false, "title": "Seek research funding" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3bff826b21b91f6c137f43df", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/55d4612268f5ae57d7fe85c4" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/obtain-research-ethics-approval", "situations": [ "A research proposal may require ethical or regulatory review." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_health_and_social_care_research_approval_authority", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "obtain-research-ethics-approval-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Not every research project is health research; institutional and devolved approvals remain separate." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Health Research Authority", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1e447958f650109fb8164426", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-research-ethics-approval:obtain-research-ethics-approval-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-research-ethics-approval-obtain-research-ethics-approval-primary", "summary": "Identifies the authority responsible for health and social-care research approvals in England.", "title": "Health Research Authority", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/health-research-authority/about" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_post_school_study_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a course, funding, admission or research decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0ce59c7e1c9872e576b98895", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-research-ethics-approval:post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-research-ethics-approval-post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish college, university and student-support services.", "title": "Further and higher education in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_post_school_study_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a course, funding, admission or research decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/67b81c7a6a87202fa814507c", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-research-ethics-approval:post-school-study-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-research-ethics-approval-post-school-study-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh further- and higher-education services and policy.", "title": "Further and higher education in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/education-skills" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_post_school_study_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a course, funding, admission or research decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/01a24aa29cd21f52aa191a84", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-research-ethics-approval:post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-research-ethics-approval-post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland higher-education and student-support services.", "title": "Higher education in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education/higher-education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Obtain research ethics approval", "user_needs": [ "Use the institution and relevant statutory authority to determine and evidence required approvals." ] }, { "aliases": [ "apply for British passport", "first adult passport", "replace UK passport" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "obtain-uk-passport-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "obtain-uk-passport-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "obtain-uk-passport-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "obtain-uk-passport-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "obtain-uk-passport-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "obtain-uk-passport-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "obtain-uk-passport-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "obtain-uk-passport-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Select the first, renewal, replacement or urgent passport route and follow its identity, document, referee, fee and delivery process.", "domain": { "id": "citizenship-democracy-and-rights", "route": "life-course-domain/citizenship-democracy-and-rights", "title": "Citizenship, democracy and rights" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A British national needs a first, renewed, replacement or otherwise updated passport.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Select the first, renewal, replacement or urgent passport route and follow its identity, document, referee, fee and delivery process.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/eb3a95d3f89cc4c8629f84cd", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/31aa096c8a0fdeb724142798" }, "route": "service-episode/obtain-uk-passport-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b0ec27f73c40979e2a760d9f", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/30c083b9267f32b1ed2c86ed", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/93f11a6e080e99393713a31e", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-uk-passport-obtain-uk-passport-primary", "source_id": "obtain-uk-passport-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-uk-passport-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-uk-passport-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to obtain a uk passport and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Select the first, renewal, replacement or urgent passport route and follow its identity, document, referee, fee and delivery process." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9a66c961b46a6c26da2940bd", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c9199e948c0f466b7125b34d", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/139df4e7659f0d2683b6f2d5", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-uk-passport-obtain-uk-passport-primary", "source_id": "obtain-uk-passport-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-uk-passport-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-uk-passport-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bf4f499d8134abd0821078ac", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/63ef718ce56b776cc772d844" }, "route": "service-episode/obtain-uk-passport-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/906fed50fab28224429c7e0b", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4514f8b883938fcb89b36ac5", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-uk-passport-obtain-uk-passport-primary", "source_id": "obtain-uk-passport-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-uk-passport-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-uk-passport-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "obtain-uk-passport", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Obtain a UK passport\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish immigration, citizenship and passport status** in the **Citizenship, democracy and rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSelect the first, renewal, replacement or urgent passport route and follow its identity, document, referee, fee and delivery process.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Passports](https://www.gov.uk/browse/abroad/passports)\n- [Scotland: Passports](https://www.gov.uk/browse/abroad/passports)\n- [Wales: Passports](https://www.gov.uk/browse/abroad/passports)\n- [Northern Ireland: Passports](https://www.gov.uk/browse/abroad/passports)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish immigration, citizenship and passport status**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish immigration, citizenship and passport status", "source": "services/obtain-uk-passport.md", "title": "Obtain a UK passport within Establish immigration, citizenship and passport status" }, "process": { "id": "establish-immigration-citizenship-and-passport-status", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-immigration-citizenship-and-passport-status", "title": "Establish immigration, citizenship and passport status" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-citizenship", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-citizenship", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for citizenship" }, { "id": "apply-for-settlement", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-settlement", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for settlement" }, { "id": "apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-visa-or-immigration-permission", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for visa or immigration permission" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ba8c5b9c66261d1c169da745", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8278507ae6ac79588b6a915c" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/obtain-uk-passport", "situations": [ "A British national needs a first, renewed, replacement or otherwise updated passport." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_passport_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "obtain-uk-passport-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish nationality, guarantee processing time or issue a passport." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "HM Passport Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7186b7cbcc503cbbff3b6037", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-uk-passport:obtain-uk-passport-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-uk-passport-obtain-uk-passport-primary", "summary": "Routes people to first, renewal, replacement, urgent and overseas UK passport services.", "title": "Passports", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/browse/abroad/passports" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Obtain a UK passport", "user_needs": [ "Find the correct passport route without treating a passport as proof that citizenship must be granted." ] }, { "aliases": [ "reasonable adjustment at work", "disability support from employer", "accessible workplace change" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "disability-care-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "disability-care-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "disability-care-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Describe the work barrier, engage the employer's adjustment process and use occupational, Access to Work or employment-redress routes as applicable.", "domain": { "id": "disability-care-and-support", "route": "life-course-domain/disability-care-and-support", "title": "Disability, care and support" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A disabled worker or applicant needs a change to remove a workplace disadvantage.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Describe the work barrier, engage the employer's adjustment process and use occupational, Access to Work or employment-redress routes as applicable.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5089f2a99b463a425e65904f", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5d34bda13733bbdeeb2950c6" }, "route": "service-episode/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9fef0eb5c54da0e0f94867b5", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/77ed7b5a705e49cd6b11e24d", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ac250e8ad3116f2af9b889bd", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-primary", "source_id": "obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9b4012432f98493a5b5ab81e", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0a3d0357c3a164c995e0e76e", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-disability-care-wales-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3fdd868c85b18eece36ebf7d", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-primary", "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "disability-care-wales-handoff", "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to obtain a workplace disability adjustment and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Describe the work barrier, engage the employer's adjustment process and use occupational, Access to Work or employment-redress routes as applicable." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/86523bd85ca153a16e0e2483", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/62f92b9d64e1d8abf7b8778a", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/eb2edf721f81f4c737bc8d79", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-primary", "source_id": "obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fcb15bfb55c3c15ce78b1c2a", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/98e810ebd8e939e37f89d901", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-disability-care-wales-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f705e86e5434897300ede2a6", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-primary", "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "disability-care-wales-handoff", "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/34a43e2fb07f4f73a586ed3f", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/008f50eb444d82c99681aa9f" }, "route": "service-episode/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5e0ff493bc3e8ea7435c7173", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bc43f06faae9fa5ac7538100", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-primary", "source_id": "obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e20974ca98095b33320172e9", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/057a0f2eda1b083e93b8e3e7", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-disability-care-wales-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a9ee13916e877116676a598c", "resource_route": "resource/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-primary", "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "disability-care-wales-handoff", "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Obtain a workplace disability adjustment\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress** in the **Disability, care and support** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nDescribe the work barrier, engage the employer's adjustment process and use occupational, Access to Work or employment-redress routes as applicable.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Reasonable adjustments for disabled workers](https://www.gov.uk/reasonable-adjustments-for-disabled-workers)\n- [Scotland: Health and social care in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/health-social-care)\n- [Wales: Social care in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/social-care)\n- [Northern Ireland: Caring for someone in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/caring-someone)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress", "source": "services/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment.md", "title": "Obtain a workplace disability adjustment within Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress" }, "process": { "id": "safeguard-capacity-mobility-and-care-redress", "route": "enclosing-process/safeguard-capacity-mobility-and-care-redress", "title": "Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-mobility-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-mobility-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access mobility support" }, { "id": "arrange-supported-decision-representation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-supported-decision-representation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange supported decision representation" }, { "id": "challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/challenge-care-or-disability-benefit-decision", "sequenced": false, "title": "Challenge a care or disability-benefit decision" }, { "id": "get-mental-capacity-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-mental-capacity-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get mental-capacity support" }, { "id": "report-adult-safeguarding-concern", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-adult-safeguarding-concern", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report an adult safeguarding concern" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8421f4e883efb56685bf281e", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c2a0484212d72615c551a17e" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment", "situations": [ "A disabled worker or applicant needs a change to remove a workplace disadvantage." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_workplace_adjustment_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide disability, reasonableness, discrimination, funding or Northern Ireland law." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Business and Trade", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c6d829760dacf60e41d736b2", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment:obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-primary", "summary": "Introduces Great Britain employer adjustment duties and examples.", "title": "Reasonable adjustments for disabled workers", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/reasonable-adjustments-for-disabled-workers" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine eligibility, local provision, capacity, safeguarding action or redress." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c94bb4e9998feaf3bba13217", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment:disability-care-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish disability, care, capacity, support and benefit services.", "title": "Health and social care in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/health-social-care" }, { "authority_role": "wales_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify an individual local authority route or decide eligibility or safeguarding action." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/daef84560e501a02cca6e3d8", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment:disability-care-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-disability-care-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh social-care policy and applicable local service information.", "title": "Social care in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/social-care" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify every trust service or decide eligibility, capacity or safeguarding action." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4cb59b065b026be71a87e2c6", "resource_id": "resource:obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment:disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/obtain-workplace-disability-adjustment-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland carer, disability, benefit and care information.", "title": "Caring for someone in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/caring-someone" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Obtain a workplace disability adjustment", "user_needs": [ "Connect employer duties, practical support and redress without deciding reasonableness or discrimination." ] }, { "aliases": [ "replace missing bin", "request recycling box", "new food waste caddy" ], 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"rubbish-street-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Request the locally specified bin, box, bag or caddy and retain any charge, delivery or refusal information.", "domain": { "id": "rubbish-recycling-and-street", "route": "life-course-domain/rubbish-recycling-and-street", "title": "Rubbish, recycling and the street" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A household container is missing", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Request the locally specified bin, box, bag or caddy and retain any charge, delivery 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"state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b53f11730ae80b859e8e8f1d", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/59f5f090957a5fd595568518", "resource_route": "resource/order-replacement-waste-container-order-replacement-waste-container-primary", "source_id": "order-replacement-waste-container-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3a72cafcec5dd1871b0ddbcf", "resource_route": "resource/order-replacement-waste-container-rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "rubbish-street-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/945bb41874c41f09b88a31be", "resource_route": "resource/order-replacement-waste-container-rubbish-street-wales-handoff", 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} ], "id": "order-replacement-waste-container", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Order a replacement waste container\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Manage household waste collections** in the **Rubbish, recycling and the street** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nRequest the locally specified bin, box, bag or caddy and retain any charge, delivery or refusal information.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Find your local council](https://www.gov.uk/find-local-council)\n- [Scotland: Bins and recycling in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services/rubbish-and-recycling)\n- [Wales: Recycling and waste in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/recycling-waste-circular-economy)\n- [Northern Ireland: Rubbish, recycling and waste in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/environment-and-outdoors/waste-and-recycling)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Manage household waste collections**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Manage household waste collections", "source": "services/order-replacement-waste-container.md", "title": "Order a replacement waste container within Manage household waste collections" }, "process": { "id": "manage-household-waste-collections", "route": "enclosing-process/manage-household-waste-collections", "title": "Manage household waste collections" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-bulky-waste-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-bulky-waste-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange bulky waste collection" }, { "id": "arrange-clinical-waste-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-clinical-waste-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange clinical waste collection" }, { "id": "arrange-garden-waste-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-garden-waste-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange garden waste collection" }, { "id": "dispose-of-hazardous-waste", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/dispose-of-hazardous-waste", "sequenced": false, "title": "Dispose of hazardous waste" }, { "id": "report-missed-rubbish-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-missed-rubbish-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a missed rubbish collection" }, { "id": "use-household-recycling-service", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-household-recycling-service", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a household recycling service" }, { "id": "view-waste-collection-schedule", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/view-waste-collection-schedule", "sequenced": false, "title": "View the waste collection schedule" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dbf23f09373d0b07a8969ace", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f7a0d909cd3a9466191e2781" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/order-replacement-waste-container", "situations": [ "A household container is missing, damaged, unsuitable or newly required." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_local_council_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "order-replacement-waste-container-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not specify container entitlement, size, charge, delivery or local exceptions." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/22f154bf783c9173033e0896", "resource_id": "resource:order-replacement-waste-container:order-replacement-waste-container-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/order-replacement-waste-container-order-replacement-waste-container-primary", "summary": "Locates the England council responsible for local waste-container services.", "title": "Find your local council", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/find-local-council" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_waste_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine collection arrangements, accepted 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Pay a clean air zone charge\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Own and use a road vehicle** in the **Public and private transport** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck the vehicle and journey against the current official zone service, pay where required and retain payment or exemption evidence.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Drive in a clean air zone](https://www.gov.uk/clean-air-zones)\n- [Scotland: Transport and travel in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport)\n- [Wales: Transport in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/transport)\n- [Northern Ireland: Travel, transport and roads in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/travel-transport-and-roads)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Own and use a road vehicle**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Own and use a road vehicle", "source": "services/pay-clean-air-zone-charge.md", "title": "Pay a clean air zone charge within Own and use a road vehicle" }, "process": { "id": "own-and-use-a-road-vehicle", "route": "enclosing-process/own-and-use-a-road-vehicle", "title": "Own and use a road vehicle" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-parking-permit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-parking-permit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a parking permit" }, { "id": "obtain-mot-test", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-mot-test", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain an MOT test" }, { "id": "obtain-motor-insurance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-motor-insurance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain motor insurance" }, { "id": "register-vehicle", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-vehicle", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a vehicle" }, { "id": "report-road-collision", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-road-collision", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a road collision" }, { "id": "tax-or-sorn-vehicle", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/tax-or-sorn-vehicle", "sequenced": false, "title": "Tax or make a SORN for a vehicle" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/54cf77be3f5b8afc85580ce1", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1e48352174083ce7df07ca39" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/pay-clean-air-zone-charge", "situations": [ "A vehicle may enter a charging clean-air zone." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_clean_air_zone_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "pay-clean-air-zone-charge-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not cover every local road-user charge, decide an exemption or cancel a penalty." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Transport", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/84097880f0f3b06950b12045", "resource_id": "resource:pay-clean-air-zone-charge:pay-clean-air-zone-charge-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/pay-clean-air-zone-charge-pay-clean-air-zone-charge-primary", "summary": "Provides England clean-air-zone vehicle checking and payment routes.", "title": "Drive in a clean air zone", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/clean-air-zones" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England concession, permit or operator-licensing route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5953b8d008916f10a1cb600c", "resource_id": "resource:pay-clean-air-zone-charge:public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/pay-clean-air-zone-charge-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish public, accessible, local and road-transport services.", "title": "Transport and travel in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport" }, { "authority_role": "wales_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine a local permit, concession, operator licence or journey accessibility." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7fe1c323e80da2214463722d", "resource_id": "resource:pay-clean-air-zone-charge:public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/pay-clean-air-zone-charge-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh transport policy, concessions and service information.", "title": "Transport in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/transport" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain vehicle and local-transport pages do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/269cc110046d0edda108c73b", "resource_id": "resource:pay-clean-air-zone-charge:public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/pay-clean-air-zone-charge-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland public-transport, motoring and road services.", "title": "Travel, transport and roads in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/travel-transport-and-roads" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Pay a clean air zone charge", "user_needs": [ "Find the official zone and vehicle checker and avoid confusing local clean-air, congestion and low-emission schemes." ] }, { "aliases": [ "council tax bill", "local property tax payment" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "pay-council-tax-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "pay-council-tax-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "pay-council-tax-primary", "provider": 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the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8c2808a465803854b229bddd", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6cf864900764b00cd29cbd92", "resource_route": "resource/pay-council-tax-pay-council-tax-primary", "source_id": "pay-council-tax-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": 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before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Pay Council Tax\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Manage personal tax and contributions** in the **Money, tax and benefits** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the billing authority, understand the bill and use payment, discount, support or challenge routes.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Council Tax](https://www.gov.uk/council-tax)\n- [Scotland: Council Tax](https://www.gov.uk/council-tax)\n- [Wales: Council Tax](https://www.gov.uk/council-tax)\n- [Northern Ireland: Council Tax](https://www.gov.uk/council-tax)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Manage personal tax and contributions**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Manage personal tax and contributions", "source": "services/pay-council-tax.md", "title": "Pay Council Tax within Manage personal tax and contributions" }, "process": { "id": "manage-personal-tax-and-contributions", "route": "enclosing-process/manage-personal-tax-and-contributions", "title": "Manage personal tax and contributions" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-tax-refund", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-tax-refund", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim a tax refund" }, { "id": "file-self-assessment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/file-self-assessment", "sequenced": false, "title": "File Self Assessment" }, { "id": "get-national-insurance-record", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-national-insurance-record", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a National Insurance record" }, { "id": "manage-student-loan-repayment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/manage-student-loan-repayment", "sequenced": false, "title": "Manage student loan repayment" }, { "id": "register-for-income-tax", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-for-income-tax", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register for Income Tax" }, { "id": "register-for-vat", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-for-vat", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register for VAT" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0022e166d2e4a9a9d0384ce5", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a614dfc2a6318c5d1e0ec5a9" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/pay-council-tax", "situations": [ "A household has or expects a Council Tax or domestic-rates liability." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_council_tax_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "pay-council-tax-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Scotland and Northern Ireland have distinct local-tax routes; 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the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Pay Inheritance Tax\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Identify and administer an estate** in the **Death and bereavement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nValue the relevant estate and transfers, determine the reporting and payment route with HMRC and obtain advice before relying on exemptions, reliefs or deadlines.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Inheritance Tax](https://www.gov.uk/inheritance-tax)\n- [Scotland: Inheritance Tax](https://www.gov.uk/inheritance-tax)\n- [Wales: Inheritance Tax](https://www.gov.uk/inheritance-tax)\n- [Northern Ireland: Inheritance Tax](https://www.gov.uk/inheritance-tax)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Identify and administer an estate**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Identify and administer an estate", "source": "services/pay-inheritance-tax.md", "title": "Pay Inheritance Tax within Identify and administer an estate" }, "process": { "id": "identify-and-administer-an-estate", "route": "enclosing-process/identify-and-administer-an-estate", "title": "Identify and administer an estate" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "administer-an-estate", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/administer-an-estate", "sequenced": false, "title": "Administer an estate" }, { "id": "locate-or-prove-will", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/locate-or-prove-will", "sequenced": false, "title": "Locate or prove a will" }, { "id": "notify-private-organisations-after-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/notify-private-organisations-after-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Notify private organisations after death" }, { "id": "settle-estate-debts", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/settle-estate-debts", "sequenced": false, "title": "Settle estate debts" }, { "id": "update-property-records-after-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/update-property-records-after-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Update property records after death" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/008a0b9504daf60b8570e0a8", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1a8c11ef8e54fcef9afb96d8" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/pay-inheritance-tax", "situations": [ "Those administering an estate need to understand whether Inheritance Tax reporting or payment applies." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_inheritance_tax_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "pay-inheritance-tax-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not value an estate, calculate tax, establish succession authority or provide tax advice." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "HM Revenue and Customs", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/19f3e0e996eae7b491c51912", "resource_id": "resource:pay-inheritance-tax:pay-inheritance-tax-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/pay-inheritance-tax-pay-inheritance-tax-primary", "summary": "Routes estate representatives 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"sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cbf39806d228c1b1ccf8fec3", "resource_route": "resource/pay-paye-and-national-insurance-pay-paye-and-national-insurance-primary", "source_id": "pay-paye-and-national-insurance-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6b3b55ec721b420fa4334e6d", "resource_route": "resource/pay-paye-and-national-insurance-employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/pay-paye-and-national-insurance-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "pay-paye-and-national-insurance-primary", "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/180754aae9091ecbaba455db", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b2854e517c134e858b6d641a" }, "route": "service-episode/pay-paye-and-national-insurance-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/297893c1afaa7d93faa02a2e", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/88a1ed12c99003235be01ea9", "resource_route": "resource/pay-paye-and-national-insurance-pay-paye-and-national-insurance-primary", "source_id": "pay-paye-and-national-insurance-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a0b1d2fdee08aa003b2c43e9", "resource_route": "resource/pay-paye-and-national-insurance-employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/pay-paye-and-national-insurance-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "pay-paye-and-national-insurance-primary", "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "pay-paye-and-national-insurance", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Pay PAYE and National Insurance\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish employment terms, pay and leave** in the **Employment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUnderstand payroll deductions and use employer or HMRC correction routes when records appear wrong.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: How you pay Income Tax](https://www.gov.uk/income-tax/how-you-pay-income-tax)\n- [Scotland: How you pay Income Tax](https://www.gov.uk/income-tax/how-you-pay-income-tax)\n- [Wales: How you pay Income Tax](https://www.gov.uk/income-tax/how-you-pay-income-tax)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish employment terms, pay and leave**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish employment terms, pay and leave", "source": "services/pay-paye-and-national-insurance.md", "title": "Pay PAYE and National Insurance within Establish employment terms, pay and leave" }, "process": { "id": "establish-employment-terms-pay-and-leave", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-employment-terms-pay-and-leave", "title": "Establish employment terms, pay and leave" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "check-employment-status", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-employment-status", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check employment status" }, { "id": "get-statutory-sick-pay", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-statutory-sick-pay", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Statutory Sick Pay" }, { "id": "join-workplace-pension", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/join-workplace-pension", "sequenced": false, "title": "Join a workplace pension" }, { "id": "receive-national-minimum-wage", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-national-minimum-wage", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive the National Minimum Wage" }, { "id": "receive-written-employment-particulars", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-written-employment-particulars", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive written employment particulars" }, { "id": "take-parental-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-parental-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take parental leave" }, { "id": "take-statutory-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-statutory-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take statutory leave" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2bceb60868dc6cc6682483ef", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/970f9d86ad8d436b49a6e9d1" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/pay-paye-and-national-insurance", "situations": [ "An employee needs to understand income-tax and National Insurance deductions from pay." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_paye_income_tax_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "pay-paye-and-national-insurance-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not calculate tax, validate a payslip or correct an account." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "HM Revenue and Customs", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e1aa8c4506876a25f7c6946a", "resource_id": "resource:pay-paye-and-national-insurance:pay-paye-and-national-insurance-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/pay-paye-and-national-insurance-pay-paye-and-national-insurance-primary", "summary": "Explains PAYE deductions and tax-code handoffs.", "title": "How you pay Income Tax", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/income-tax/how-you-pay-income-tax" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_employment_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain employment guidance does not establish Northern Ireland law or procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4b4b9a59fb414364f32249fc", "resource_id": "resource:pay-paye-and-national-insurance:employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/pay-paye-and-national-insurance-employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland employment rights and services.", "title": "Employment in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Pay PAYE and National Insurance", "user_needs": [ "Check tax code and payslip evidence and reach the accountable correction service." ] }, { "aliases": [ "jury summons", "respond to jury service letter", "claim juror expenses" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "perform-jury-service-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "perform-jury-service-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "perform-jury-service-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "perform-jury-service-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "perform-jury-service-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "perform-jury-service-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "perform-jury-service-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "perform-jury-service-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Read the exact summons, use the court service named on it and follow attendance, deferral, excusal, support and expense steps.", "domain": { "id": "citizenship-democracy-and-rights", "route": "life-course-domain/citizenship-democracy-and-rights", "title": "Citizenship, democracy and rights" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person has received a jury summons or needs information about jury service.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Read the exact summons, use the court service named on it and follow attendance, deferral, excusal, support and expense steps.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dc63b8f8a63835616fe69225", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a8ba0b65032c1557ffeacb42" }, "route": "service-episode/perform-jury-service-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e937a0408c3fc3ed69ba1f3e", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a77b9051cedfe20f8a9531b6", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/535b02cad3d322d7d2413afa", "resource_route": "resource/perform-jury-service-perform-jury-service-primary", "source_id": "perform-jury-service-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/perform-jury-service-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider 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confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1892892b8c5612861db06ffb", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/36c4325979c8bc6b75add7b0", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2e92ec1e2a5be8d377e5c431", "resource_route": "resource/perform-jury-service-perform-jury-service-primary", "source_id": "perform-jury-service-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/perform-jury-service-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "perform-jury-service-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/db9c354b3817b2a3eaf9d230", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/25cafbc56fce3c35fc5751e8" }, "route": "service-episode/perform-jury-service-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/db2c6fcbbf1759c6b4771ce1", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c152b21eddcd44880306ac9d", "resource_route": "resource/perform-jury-service-perform-jury-service-primary", "source_id": "perform-jury-service-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/perform-jury-service-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "perform-jury-service-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "perform-jury-service", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Perform jury service\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Participate in democracy and exercise information rights** in the **Citizenship, democracy and rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nRead the exact summons, use the court service named on it and follow attendance, deferral, excusal, support and expense steps.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Jury service](https://www.gov.uk/jury-service)\n- [Scotland: Jury service](https://www.gov.uk/jury-service)\n- [Wales: Jury service](https://www.gov.uk/jury-service)\n- [Northern Ireland: Jury service](https://www.gov.uk/jury-service)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Participate in democracy and exercise information rights**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Participate in democracy and exercise information rights", "source": "services/perform-jury-service.md", "title": "Perform jury service within Participate in democracy and exercise information rights" }, "process": { "id": "participate-in-democracy-and-exercise-information-rights", "route": "enclosing-process/participate-in-democracy-and-exercise-information-rights", "title": "Participate in democracy and exercise information rights" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "contact-elected-representative", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/contact-elected-representative", "sequenced": false, "title": "Contact an elected 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"time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "petition-government", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Petition government\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Participate in democracy and exercise information rights** in the **Citizenship, democracy and rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSelect the institution with power over the issue, use its current petition rules and retain submission, moderation and response information.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Petitions and government](https://www.gov.uk/petition-government)\n- [Scotland: Petitions and government](https://www.gov.uk/petition-government)\n- [Wales: Petitions and government](https://www.gov.uk/petition-government)\n- [Northern Ireland: Petitions and government](https://www.gov.uk/petition-government)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Participate in democracy and exercise information rights**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Participate in democracy and exercise information rights", "source": "services/petition-government.md", "title": "Petition government within Participate in democracy and exercise information rights" }, "process": { "id": "participate-in-democracy-and-exercise-information-rights", "route": "enclosing-process/participate-in-democracy-and-exercise-information-rights", "title": "Participate in democracy and exercise information rights" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "contact-elected-representative", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/contact-elected-representative", "sequenced": false, "title": "Contact an elected 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"order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f8d95768896fd007168a7508", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/89e51d88d992cbc21992b81c", "resource_route": "resource/plan-accessible-public-transport-plan-accessible-public-transport-primary", "source_id": "plan-accessible-public-transport-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fa973e8bf5511834e3040b62", "resource_route": "resource/plan-accessible-public-transport-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/31375427f0bb2df6f271c316", "resource_route": "resource/plan-accessible-public-transport-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9af9865b1e33b3f84ffce866", "resource_route": "resource/plan-accessible-public-transport-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/plan-accessible-public-transport-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "plan-accessible-public-transport-primary", "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "plan-accessible-public-transport", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Plan accessible public transport\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Obtain accessible and community mobility** in the **Public and private transport** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck vehicle, station, stop and assistance information with the relevant operator before travel and retain disruption or complaint routes.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Transport if you're disabled](https://www.gov.uk/transport-disabled)\n- [Scotland: Transport and travel in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport)\n- [Wales: Transport in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/transport)\n- [Northern Ireland: Travel, transport and roads in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/travel-transport-and-roads)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Obtain accessible and community mobility**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Obtain accessible and community mobility", "source": "services/plan-accessible-public-transport.md", "title": "Plan accessible public transport within Obtain accessible and community mobility" }, "process": { "id": "obtain-accessible-and-community-mobility", "route": "enclosing-process/obtain-accessible-and-community-mobility", "title": "Obtain accessible and community mobility" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-blue-badge", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-blue-badge", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a Blue Badge" }, { "id": "license-taxi-or-private-hire", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/license-taxi-or-private-hire", "sequenced": false, "title": "License a taxi or private-hire service" }, { "id": "obtain-concessionary-travel", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-concessionary-travel", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain concessionary travel" }, { "id": "use-community-transport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-community-transport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use community transport" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b9e121d9038ace64c8e37245", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/90966b4afaff22569b0507aa" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/plan-accessible-public-transport", "situations": [ "A disabled or older passenger needs to plan a journey using public transport." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_accessible_transport_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "plan-accessible-public-transport-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not guarantee a vehicle, station, stop, assistance booking or disruption outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Transport", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d93c754c18e8d11c68c764e7", "resource_id": "resource:plan-accessible-public-transport:plan-accessible-public-transport-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/plan-accessible-public-transport-plan-accessible-public-transport-primary", "summary": "Routes disabled passengers to current public-transport assistance, concession and rights information.", "title": "Transport if you're disabled", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/transport-disabled" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England concession, permit or operator-licensing route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/881de9564fa62b061ad6b493", "resource_id": "resource:plan-accessible-public-transport:public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/plan-accessible-public-transport-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish public, accessible, local and road-transport services.", "title": "Transport and travel in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport" }, { "authority_role": "wales_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine a local permit, concession, operator licence or journey accessibility." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/05ec1962c645ac7eff44674e", "resource_id": "resource:plan-accessible-public-transport:public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/plan-accessible-public-transport-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh transport policy, concessions and service information.", "title": "Transport in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/transport" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain vehicle and local-transport pages do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/192ad941ddc72c1d5ebfef04", "resource_id": "resource:plan-accessible-public-transport:public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/plan-accessible-public-transport-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland public-transport, motoring and road services.", "title": "Travel, transport and roads in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/travel-transport-and-roads" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Plan accessible public transport", "user_needs": [ "Bring together operator accessibility, assistance booking, interchange and passenger-rights handoffs." ] }, { "aliases": [ "non disclosure agreement", "keep invention secret", "protect business know how" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "protect-confidential-information-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "protect-confidential-information-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "protect-confidential-information-primary", 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information that should remain confidential, control disclosure and access and obtain advice on suitable agreements before sharing it.", "domain": { "id": "ideas-creativity-and-research", "route": "life-course-domain/ideas-creativity-and-research", "title": "Ideas, creativity and research" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A creator, researcher or organisation needs to share or use sensitive technical or business information.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Identify information that should remain confidential, control disclosure and access and obtain advice on suitable agreements before sharing it.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1b247965e0b9f054ec62acb9", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/50049483e240be6b7b3c5f28" }, "route": "service-episode/protect-confidential-information-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/30cf1a762ca8a4a914542c9c", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/51c1bfec5ca37651cce2d957", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6271931e6b9f70462e4c84fc", "resource_route": "resource/protect-confidential-information-protect-confidential-information-primary", "source_id": "protect-confidential-information-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/protect-confidential-information-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "protect-confidential-information-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to protect confidential information and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Identify information that should remain confidential, control disclosure and access and obtain advice on suitable agreements before sharing it." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ae9900a75220bc92adb5deef", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fdfe0892bc7fceb63eae8bf8", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/938f0a8d33f008b1c39a42ce", "resource_route": "resource/protect-confidential-information-protect-confidential-information-primary", "source_id": "protect-confidential-information-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/protect-confidential-information-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "protect-confidential-information-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/20641dcf9c995f71a9f8ac64", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f081ba00e73b71733f10cd1f" }, "route": "service-episode/protect-confidential-information-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2f894e89981117bb80b9c0ec", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a2def0ce83b0a6325a0dbcf3", "resource_route": "resource/protect-confidential-information-protect-confidential-information-primary", "source_id": "protect-confidential-information-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/protect-confidential-information-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "protect-confidential-information-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "protect-confidential-information", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Protect confidential information\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Protect and register intellectual property** in the **Ideas, creativity and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify information that should remain confidential, control disclosure and access and obtain advice on suitable agreements before sharing it.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Intellectual property and your work](https://www.gov.uk/intellectual-property-an-overview)\n- [Scotland: Intellectual property and your work](https://www.gov.uk/intellectual-property-an-overview)\n- [Wales: Intellectual property and your work](https://www.gov.uk/intellectual-property-an-overview)\n- [Northern Ireland: Intellectual property and your work](https://www.gov.uk/intellectual-property-an-overview)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Protect and register intellectual property**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Protect and register intellectual property", "source": "services/protect-confidential-information.md", "title": "Protect confidential information within Protect and register intellectual property" }, "process": { "id": "protect-and-register-intellectual-property", "route": "enclosing-process/protect-and-register-intellectual-property", "title": "Protect and register intellectual property" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-patent", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-patent", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for a patent" }, { "id": "license-intellectual-property", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/license-intellectual-property", "sequenced": false, "title": "License intellectual property" }, { "id": "manage-copyright", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/manage-copyright", "sequenced": false, "title": "Manage copyright" }, { "id": "register-design", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-design", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a design" }, { "id": "register-trade-mark", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-trade-mark", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a trade mark" }, { "id": "request-patent-search-and-examination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/request-patent-search-and-examination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Request patent search and examination" }, { "id": "search-prior-art", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/search-prior-art", "sequenced": false, "title": "Search prior art" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/83b1d51ad228f86f4447bad3", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c5b50a67d6909f36c73adfaa" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/protect-confidential-information", "situations": [ "A creator, researcher or organisation needs to share or use sensitive technical or business information." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_intellectual_property_overview", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "protect-confidential-information-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not draft an agreement, decide ownership, guarantee secrecy or provide legal advice." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Intellectual Property Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/437690358100a5e2749da312", "resource_id": "resource:protect-confidential-information:protect-confidential-information-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/protect-confidential-information-protect-confidential-information-primary", "summary": "Introduces UK intellectual-property categories and protection choices, including confidentiality boundaries.", "title": "Intellectual property and your work", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/intellectual-property-an-overview" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Protect confidential information", "user_needs": [ "Preserve confidentiality and future rights without contract drafting or a legal conclusion by the bundle." ] }, { "aliases": [ "deposit protection scheme", "landlord kept my deposit", "tenancy deposit dispute" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", 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}, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b4a3d72bc04f574da3df8220", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f005b78b4a9bda6c62503b1a", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/59824e73f1251e5ff7436636", "resource_route": "resource/protect-tenancy-deposit-protect-tenancy-deposit-primary", "source_id": "protect-tenancy-deposit-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fdef79c1afb24bb739ccef74", "resource_route": "resource/protect-tenancy-deposit-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "source_id": 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"resource/protect-tenancy-deposit-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/protect-tenancy-deposit-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "protect-tenancy-deposit-primary", "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "housing-community-wales-handoff", "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "protect-tenancy-deposit", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Protect a tenancy deposit\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Secure and move home** in the **Housing and community life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck that a tenancy deposit enters the applicable protection scheme and use its evidence and dispute route when repayment is contested.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Tenancy deposit protection](https://www.gov.uk/tenancy-deposit-protection)\n- [Scotland: Housing and local services in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services)\n- [Wales: Housing in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/housing)\n- [Northern Ireland: Property and housing in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/property-and-housing)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Secure and move home**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Secure and move home", "source": "services/protect-tenancy-deposit.md", "title": "Protect a tenancy deposit within Secure and move home" }, "process": { "id": "secure-and-move-home", "route": "enclosing-process/secure-and-move-home", "title": "Secure and move home" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-social-housing", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-social-housing", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for social housing" }, { "id": "buy-home", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/buy-home", "sequenced": false, "title": "Buy a home" }, { "id": "get-homelessness-help", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-homelessness-help", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get homelessness help" }, { "id": "move-home", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/move-home", "sequenced": false, "title": "Move home" }, { "id": "prove-right-to-rent", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/prove-right-to-rent", "sequenced": false, "title": "Prove the right to rent" }, { "id": "register-for-council-tax", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-for-council-tax", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register for Council Tax" }, { "id": "rent-private-home", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/rent-private-home", "sequenced": false, "title": "Rent a private home" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/debfdbb233a40615b73e8010", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/44d845c5ae4f97f83fb2b739" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/protect-tenancy-deposit", "situations": [ "A tenant or landlord needs to protect, recover or dispute a private-tenancy deposit." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_tenancy_deposit_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "protect-tenancy-deposit-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide deductions, tenancy status or a court claim." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a076085445ece71527731938", "resource_id": "resource:protect-tenancy-deposit:protect-tenancy-deposit-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/protect-tenancy-deposit-protect-tenancy-deposit-primary", "summary": "Explains England deposit-protection duties, authorised schemes and dispute handoffs.", "title": "Tenancy deposit protection", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/tenancy-deposit-protection" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England housing rule or local route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f3c94301018a70d346c74817", "resource_id": "resource:protect-tenancy-deposit:housing-community-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/protect-tenancy-deposit-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish housing, planning, local-tax and neighbourhood services.", "title": "Housing and local services in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services" }, { "authority_role": "wales_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine a tenancy, planning, homelessness or adaptation decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a5ff6d805194c88d0f110b24", "resource_id": "resource:protect-tenancy-deposit:housing-community-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/protect-tenancy-deposit-housing-community-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh housing policy, support and service information.", "title": "Housing in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/housing" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "England, Scotland and Wales housing rules do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/97c016ac8a3e04cce3cc808f", "resource_id": "resource:protect-tenancy-deposit:housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/protect-tenancy-deposit-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland property, housing and local-service information.", "title": "Property and housing in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/property-and-housing" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Protect a tenancy deposit", "user_needs": [ "Identify the scheme, prescribed information and adjudication boundary for the tenancy location." ] }, { "aliases": [ "right to rent share code", "landlord immigration check", "prove renting status" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "prove-right-to-rent-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ 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"resource_route": "resource/prove-right-to-rent-prove-right-to-rent-primary", "source_id": "prove-right-to-rent-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7cb693125c73ecce04fb6192", "resource_route": "resource/prove-right-to-rent-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5dc14894625236bd6d92e7cf", "resource_route": "resource/prove-right-to-rent-housing-community-wales-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bcafe2531b99b44feedfe1ee", "resource_route": "resource/prove-right-to-rent-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": 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deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Prove the right to rent\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Secure and move home** in the **Housing and community life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the current identity or share-code route for an England right-to-rent check and respond through the official correction boundary.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Prove your right to rent in England](https://www.gov.uk/prove-right-to-rent)\n- [Scotland: Housing and local services in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services)\n- [Wales: Housing in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/housing)\n- [Northern Ireland: Property and housing in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/property-and-housing)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Secure and move home**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Secure and move home", "source": "services/prove-right-to-rent.md", "title": "Prove the right to rent within Secure and move home" }, "process": { "id": "secure-and-move-home", "route": "enclosing-process/secure-and-move-home", "title": "Secure and move home" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-social-housing", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-social-housing", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for social housing" }, { "id": "buy-home", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/buy-home", "sequenced": false, "title": "Buy a home" }, { "id": "get-homelessness-help", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-homelessness-help", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get homelessness help" }, { "id": "move-home", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/move-home", "sequenced": false, "title": "Move home" }, { "id": "protect-tenancy-deposit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/protect-tenancy-deposit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Protect a tenancy deposit" }, { "id": "register-for-council-tax", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-for-council-tax", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register for Council Tax" }, { "id": "rent-private-home", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/rent-private-home", "sequenced": false, "title": "Rent a private home" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b15bb51500df7b1bcb508e0a", "life_course_domain": 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"linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/prove-right-to-rent-prove-right-to-rent-primary", "summary": "Provides the England online status and share-code route and document alternatives.", "title": "Prove your right to rent in England", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/prove-right-to-rent" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England housing rule or local route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a4ba7b6a778fe8838bef4702", "resource_id": "resource:prove-right-to-rent:housing-community-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": 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"order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a4650e45f032a8368bb6e1e7", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/43421b7bc77d2f6d3cdd1dbe", "resource_route": "resource/prove-right-to-work-prove-right-to-work-primary", "source_id": "prove-right-to-work-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8a5174bdfa0960426a9c83ce", "resource_route": "resource/prove-right-to-work-finding-work-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/34ab185525f8022940710779", "resource_route": "resource/prove-right-to-work-finding-work-wales-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f45c89ccb7f313737f640efe", "resource_route": "resource/prove-right-to-work-finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/prove-right-to-work-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "prove-right-to-work-primary", "finding-work-scotland-handoff", "finding-work-wales-handoff", "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "prove-right-to-work", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Prove the right to work\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter fair and supported work** in the **Finding work and unemployment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the applicable immigration-status or document route so an employer can complete its statutory check.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Prove your right to work to an employer](https://www.gov.uk/prove-right-to-work)\n- [Scotland: Finding a job in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job)\n- [Wales: Employment support in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/employment-support)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter fair and supported work**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter fair and supported work", "source": "services/prove-right-to-work.md", "title": "Prove the right to work within Enter fair and supported work" }, "process": { "id": "enter-fair-and-supported-work", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-fair-and-supported-work", "title": "Enter fair and supported work" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-access-to-work", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-access-to-work", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Access to Work" }, { "id": "get-disclosure-or-dbs-check", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-disclosure-or-dbs-check", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a disclosure or DBS check" }, { "id": "get-jobcentre-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-jobcentre-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Jobcentre support" }, { "id": "resolve-recruitment-discrimination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/resolve-recruitment-discrimination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Resolve recruitment discrimination" }, { "id": "start-work-based-apprenticeship", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-work-based-apprenticeship", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start a work-based apprenticeship" }, { "id": "use-public-job-search", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-public-job-search", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use public job search" }, { "id": "volunteer-in-the-uk", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/volunteer-in-the-uk", "sequenced": false, "title": "Volunteer in the UK" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/610f328ba5aa93731ae4fde0", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/11d5b2757fda268e8180dfd5" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/prove-right-to-work", "situations": [ "A worker or employer needs evidence that employment is permitted." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_right_to_work_evidence_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "prove-right-to-work-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine immigration status or whether an employer's check is sufficient." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Home Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bbe52a2bd5531f7600e2fba7", "resource_id": 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"rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/prove-right-to-work-finding-work-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish job-search and employment-support services.", "title": "Finding a job in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job" }, { "authority_role": "wales_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/427220b6d23231642ea8d8a1", "resource_id": "resource:prove-right-to-work:finding-work-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/prove-right-to-work-finding-work-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh employability and skills support.", "title": "Employment support in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/employment-support" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0b7a2a3c3e3a8b156a16b928", "resource_id": "resource:prove-right-to-work:finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/prove-right-to-work-finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland employment services and rights.", "title": "Employment in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Prove the right to work", "user_needs": [ "Use the current Home Office evidence route without the bundle deciding status." ] }, { "aliases": [ "open access publication", "submit research paper", "share research outputs" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "publish-research-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "publish-research-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", 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"description": "Confirm authorship, ethics, funder, data, confidentiality and rights constraints before selecting a publication and preservation route.", "domain": { "id": "ideas-creativity-and-research", "route": "life-course-domain/ideas-creativity-and-research", "title": "Ideas, creativity and research" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A researcher or organisation wants to communicate research outputs publicly.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Confirm authorship, ethics, funder, data, confidentiality and rights constraints before selecting a publication and preservation route.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/af549570d703622cc08f12b4", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b1f23d92a1a3c35eb26a7e6a" }, "route": "service-episode/publish-research-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": 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"state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7ecd03d54d841bd2c0a910a2", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4ef02f6c892e382c3cd3fdce" }, "route": "service-episode/publish-research-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/542ce57d0145839458b98233", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/262c677a66afe82cde7cb125", "resource_route": "resource/publish-research-publish-research-primary", "source_id": "publish-research-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/publish-research-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "publish-research-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "publish-research", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Publish research\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Fund, publish and commercialise research** in the **Ideas, creativity and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nConfirm authorship, ethics, funder, data, confidentiality and rights constraints before selecting a publication and preservation route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: FCDO open access policy](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fcdo-open-access-policy/fcdo-open-access-policy)\n- [Scotland: FCDO open access policy](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fcdo-open-access-policy/fcdo-open-access-policy)\n- [Wales: FCDO open access policy](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fcdo-open-access-policy/fcdo-open-access-policy)\n- [Northern Ireland: FCDO open access policy](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fcdo-open-access-policy/fcdo-open-access-policy)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Fund, publish and commercialise research**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Fund, publish and commercialise research", "source": "services/publish-research.md", "title": "Publish research within Fund, publish and commercialise research" }, "process": { "id": "fund-publish-and-commercialise-research", "route": "enclosing-process/fund-publish-and-commercialise-research", "title": "Fund, publish and commercialise research" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-innovation-grant", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-innovation-grant", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for an innovation grant" }, { "id": "commercialise-research", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": 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current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ff3ff737a4b69f9379d76051", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fc6fe7b5686497c8ed627493", "resource_route": "resource/pursue-surrogacy-parenthood-pursue-surrogacy-parenthood-primary", "source_id": "pursue-surrogacy-parenthood-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/pursue-surrogacy-parenthood-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "pursue-surrogacy-parenthood-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "pursue-surrogacy-parenthood", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Pursue surrogacy parenthood\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Adoption, fostering and surrogacy** in the **Before birth and starting a family** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNavigate the legal and service handoffs around a surrogacy arrangement and the route to legal parenthood.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Legal rights when using surrogates and donors](https://www.gov.uk/legal-rights-when-using-surrogates-and-donors)\n- [Scotland: Legal rights when using surrogates and donors](https://www.gov.uk/legal-rights-when-using-surrogates-and-donors)\n- [Wales: Legal rights when using surrogates and donors](https://www.gov.uk/legal-rights-when-using-surrogates-and-donors)\n- [Northern Ireland: Legal rights when using surrogates and donors](https://www.gov.uk/legal-rights-when-using-surrogates-and-donors)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Adoption, fostering and surrogacy**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Adoption, fostering and surrogacy", "source": "services/pursue-surrogacy-parenthood.md", "title": "Pursue surrogacy parenthood within Adoption, fostering and surrogacy" }, "process": { "id": "adoption-fostering-and-surrogacy", "route": "enclosing-process/adoption-fostering-and-surrogacy", "title": "Adoption, fostering and surrogacy" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-adoption", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-adoption", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange adoption" }, { "id": "become-a-foster-carer", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/become-a-foster-carer", "sequenced": 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e098c359b9b2a3ed364ed0d1", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0bc14c5999b50d4a04691fb7" }, "route": "service-episode/receive-direct-payments-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0f88dccd0bab8e137c857415", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/84930a00a9b488597d75dced", "resource_route": "resource/receive-direct-payments-receive-direct-payments-primary", "source_id": "receive-direct-payments-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6201fb7b616acb7f50791531", "resource_route": "resource/receive-direct-payments-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/75f9475c48c524636c58f510", "resource_route": "resource/receive-direct-payments-disability-care-wales-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/75a9ed79aa16249d69c7c96a", "resource_route": "resource/receive-direct-payments-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/receive-direct-payments-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "receive-direct-payments-primary", "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "disability-care-wales-handoff", "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "receive-direct-payments", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Receive direct payments\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Assess and deliver disability and care support** in the **Disability, care and support** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the responsible social-care authority's assessed personal-budget route and follow its agreement, payment, employment, monitoring and review requirements.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Personal budgets and direct payments](https://www.nhs.uk/social-care-and-support/money-work-and-benefits/personal-budgets/)\n- [Scotland: Health and social care in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/health-social-care)\n- [Wales: Social care in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/social-care)\n- [Northern Ireland: Caring for someone in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/caring-someone)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Assess and deliver disability and care support**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Assess and deliver disability and care support", "source": "services/receive-direct-payments.md", "title": "Receive direct payments within Assess and deliver disability and care support" }, "process": { "id": "assess-and-deliver-disability-and-care-support", "route": "enclosing-process/assess-and-deliver-disability-and-care-support", "title": "Assess and deliver disability and care support" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-disability-living-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-disability-living-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim disability living support" }, { "id": "get-carers-assessment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-carers-assessment", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a carer's assessment" }, { "id": "get-disability-home-adaptation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-disability-home-adaptation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a disability home adaptation" }, { "id": "get-residential-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-residential-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get residential care" }, { "id": "get-social-care-needs-assessment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-social-care-needs-assessment", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a social-care needs assessment" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/16e87e0918cc0d3c055d1a3d", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6bd99dfe6c28ba0a173786de" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/receive-direct-payments", "situations": [ "An eligible person or representative is considering managing some assessed care support through payments." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_social_care_personal_budget_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "receive-direct-payments-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide eligibility or amount, manage payroll, recommend care or establish devolved routes." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/34e943dcae7318077f2bf72e", "resource_id": "resource:receive-direct-payments:receive-direct-payments-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/receive-direct-payments-receive-direct-payments-primary", "summary": "Introduces England personal budgets, direct payments and management options.", "title": "Personal budgets and direct payments", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/social-care-and-support/money-work-and-benefits/personal-budgets/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine eligibility, local provision, capacity, safeguarding action or redress." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bd4635fd299344c05b9426ea", "resource_id": "resource:receive-direct-payments:disability-care-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/receive-direct-payments-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish disability, care, capacity, support and benefit services.", "title": "Health and social care in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/health-social-care" }, { "authority_role": "wales_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify an individual local authority route or decide eligibility or safeguarding action." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/11da54831652ae8046f63e8f", "resource_id": "resource:receive-direct-payments:disability-care-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/receive-direct-payments-disability-care-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh social-care policy and applicable local service information.", "title": "Social care in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/social-care" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_disability_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify every trust service or decide eligibility, capacity or safeguarding action." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/738e034d9e1210d6207950d6", "resource_id": "resource:receive-direct-payments:disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/receive-direct-payments-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland carer, disability, benefit and care information.", "title": "Caring for someone in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/caring-someone" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Receive direct payments", "user_needs": [ "Find local administration and support without assuming eligibility, amount or employer responsibilities." ] }, { "aliases": [ "specialist hospital referral", "choose hospital", "waiting for NHS treatment" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "health-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "health-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "health-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "health-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "health-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Follow the responsible referrer's and hospital's pathway for referral, choice, appointment, consent, treatment and follow-up.", "domain": { "id": "health-throughout-life", "route": "life-course-domain/health-throughout-life", "title": "Health throughout life" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A clinician or service is considering or has made a referral for specialist hospital care.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Follow the responsible referrer's and hospital's pathway for referral, choice, appointment, consent, treatment and follow-up.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0fd85f5d829e37aa8967b42d", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ff8e886f70e46976f44f9eec" }, "route": "service-episode/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/52ba1eed4f54b10bcb5109ec", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/97db6edc75f6fa51fdd3fa67", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3aa6596e42708f5aa1b5755d", "resource_route": "resource/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-primary", "source_id": "receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e8fe84947709b9f56f8042ae", "resource_route": "resource/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-health-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "health-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/96a3e042f94be744b70c1a3c", "resource_route": "resource/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-health-wales-handoff", "source_id": "health-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4ba4b91fd98d0287e8152b57", "resource_route": "resource/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-health-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "health-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-primary", "health-scotland-handoff", "health-wales-handoff", "health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to receive hospital referral and treatment and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Follow the responsible referrer's and hospital's pathway for referral, choice, appointment, consent, treatment and follow-up." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5c93856f88e017b592d92d21", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3ff6a77b2c8ea8894af8f94a", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c42d9123fafd5c247ab788ec", "resource_route": "resource/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-primary", "source_id": "receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e2315ceb7acd3ca270090a41", "resource_route": "resource/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-health-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "health-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5d17684c56e5c56feaa68a18", "resource_route": "resource/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-health-wales-handoff", "source_id": "health-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7904704655c36c28afca5fde", "resource_route": "resource/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-health-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "health-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-primary", "health-scotland-handoff", "health-wales-handoff", "health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9a032316c7d4eaf940bcbddd", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2038df878bc157d7d9b99226" }, "route": "service-episode/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/83c61af4dce2cce176d1fca1", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5cde63349941de5eaff26c3a", "resource_route": "resource/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-primary", "source_id": "receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8ff0c36cf6310b6d9f51ddd4", "resource_route": "resource/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-health-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "health-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b6032902a3c9c7652923769c", "resource_route": "resource/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-health-wales-handoff", "source_id": "health-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4add4a166b892c18a03c4c72", "resource_route": "resource/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-health-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "health-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-primary", "health-scotland-handoff", "health-wales-handoff", "health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Receive hospital referral and treatment\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Use specialist, urgent and health-redress routes** in the **Health throughout life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFollow the responsible referrer's and hospital's pathway for referral, choice, appointment, consent, treatment and follow-up.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Referrals for specialist care](https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/hospitals/referrals-for-specialist-care/)\n- [Scotland: NHS services in Scotland](https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/)\n- [Wales: NHS 111 Wales](https://111.wales.nhs.uk/)\n- [Northern Ireland: Health and Social Care Northern Ireland online](https://online.hscni.net/)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Use specialist, urgent and health-redress routes**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Use specialist, urgent and health-redress routes", "source": "services/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment.md", "title": "Receive hospital referral and treatment within Use specialist, urgent and health-redress routes" }, "process": { "id": "use-specialist-urgent-and-health-redress-routes", "route": "enclosing-process/use-specialist-urgent-and-health-redress-routes", "title": "Use specialist, urgent and health-redress routes" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-mental-healthcare", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-mental-healthcare", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access mental healthcare" }, { "id": "complain-about-nhs-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/complain-about-nhs-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Complain about NHS care" }, { "id": "use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use urgent and emergency health services" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d627de7b507b4a245c306693", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/300d138e8f10b0860441ae7b" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment", "situations": [ "A clinician or service is considering or has made a referral for specialist hospital care." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_hospital_referral_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not make a referral, recommend treatment, calculate waiting time or establish devolved routes." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9b1d4216822a95c570886067", "resource_id": "resource:receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment:receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-primary", "summary": "Explains England referral, provider-choice and appointment handoffs for specialist care.", "title": "Referrals for specialist care", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/hospitals/referrals-for-specialist-care/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_health_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "health-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, triage or establish the correct service for an individual situation." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS 24", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/27bf741654ee9e0c9a114b10", "resource_id": "resource:receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment:health-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-health-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current NHS Scotland primary, community, urgent and specialist services.", "title": "NHS services in Scotland", "url": "https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/" }, { "authority_role": "wales_health_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "health-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not replace emergency services or establish that NHS England routes apply in Wales." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Ambulance Services NHS University Trust", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0f1784ed1093a0859b614418", "resource_id": "resource:receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment:health-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-health-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current NHS Wales service, symptom and urgent-care information.", "title": "NHS 111 Wales", "url": "https://111.wales.nhs.uk/" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_health_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "health-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, triage or establish the responsible trust for an individual situation." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department of Health Northern Ireland", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/14ea598a8616ee5d821c1bd5", "resource_id": "resource:receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment:health-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment-health-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland health and social-care organisations and services.", "title": "Health and Social Care Northern Ireland online", "url": "https://online.hscni.net/" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Receive hospital referral and treatment", "user_needs": [ "Understand referral and provider handoffs without clinical advice, waiting-time promises or treatment decisions." ] }, { "aliases": [ "pregnancy and birth care", "labour and birth services" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "receive-maternity-care-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "receive-maternity-care-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "before-birth-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "before-birth-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "before-birth-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "before-birth-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Navigate maternity care from pregnancy through labour, birth and the immediate clinical handoff after birth.", "domain": { "id": "before-birth-and-starting-family", "route": "life-course-domain/before-birth-and-starting-family", "title": "Before birth and starting a family" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A pregnant person needs continuing maternity", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Navigate maternity care from pregnancy through labour, birth and the immediate clinical handoff after birth.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ef992e51be96cef20cfc6400", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5890ad55d0b458d014125ec3" }, "route": "service-episode/receive-maternity-care-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a5a258ab97bd3feef3e2bbfe", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0541f78b935f5765c9623440", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/07d52c4a57c315431cc83eab", "resource_route": "resource/receive-maternity-care-receive-maternity-care-primary", "source_id": "receive-maternity-care-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9b268ee2e8e4b53c3f9edc53", "resource_route": "resource/receive-maternity-care-before-birth-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/659ed21da3b70f4acf88ca12", "resource_route": "resource/receive-maternity-care-before-birth-wales-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fb4c06e0ecdfe356717166bc", "resource_route": "resource/receive-maternity-care-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/receive-maternity-care-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "receive-maternity-care-primary", "before-birth-scotland-handoff", "before-birth-wales-handoff", "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to receive maternity care and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Navigate maternity care from pregnancy through labour, birth and the immediate clinical handoff after birth." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4377bd92d0cf5dad54989b10", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/41b55c66c1504cc14779fc9e", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/57386ad75305decb7615e0f4", "resource_route": "resource/receive-maternity-care-receive-maternity-care-primary", "source_id": "receive-maternity-care-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bd195eeb860981078cfd523e", "resource_route": "resource/receive-maternity-care-before-birth-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5591818f4ec4ee6c06a64ec7", "resource_route": "resource/receive-maternity-care-before-birth-wales-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7d3e2ed86497087b801754fe", "resource_route": "resource/receive-maternity-care-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/receive-maternity-care-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "receive-maternity-care-primary", "before-birth-scotland-handoff", "before-birth-wales-handoff", "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/51257d557ce0af98f694efbb", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/aae4491db2f34faee649485f" }, "route": "service-episode/receive-maternity-care-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/77005d3cacfc7048e6dd2b45", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/750c000c92b51c9d142c2f6c", "resource_route": "resource/receive-maternity-care-receive-maternity-care-primary", "source_id": "receive-maternity-care-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2f525d0a94a7b65eec99bf80", "resource_route": "resource/receive-maternity-care-before-birth-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7aa915e4fe7c3aae11e34aff", "resource_route": "resource/receive-maternity-care-before-birth-wales-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2c43c5da087e965b521a8ffb", "resource_route": "resource/receive-maternity-care-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/receive-maternity-care-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "receive-maternity-care-primary", "before-birth-scotland-handoff", "before-birth-wales-handoff", "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "receive-maternity-care", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Receive maternity care\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support** in the **Before birth and starting a family** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNavigate maternity care from pregnancy through labour, birth and the immediate clinical handoff after birth.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Labour and birth](https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/labour-and-birth/)\n- [Scotland: Having a baby in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family/children-parenting/having-baby)\n- [Wales: Children and families in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/children-families)\n- [Northern Ireland: Family, home and community in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/family-home-and-community)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support", "source": "services/receive-maternity-care.md", "title": "Receive maternity care within Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support" }, "process": { "id": "pregnancy-maternity-and-workplace-support", "route": "enclosing-process/pregnancy-maternity-and-workplace-support", "title": "Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-fertility-and-reproductive-health", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access fertility and reproductive health" }, { "id": "claim-maternity-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-maternity-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Maternity Allowance" }, { "id": "get-healthy-start-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-healthy-start-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Healthy Start support" }, { "id": "get-pregnancy-workplace-protection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-pregnancy-workplace-protection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get pregnancy workplace protection" }, { "id": "start-antenatal-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-antenatal-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start antenatal care" }, { "id": "take-maternity-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-maternity-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take maternity leave" }, { "id": "take-paternity-or-partner-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-paternity-or-partner-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take paternity or partner leave" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/71b60ea06f7dd6f5fccee422", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1508d8c479f36544d4445f74" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/receive-maternity-care", "situations": [ "A pregnant person needs continuing maternity, labour or birth care." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_labour_and_birth_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "receive-maternity-care-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not provide diagnosis, emergency triage, personalised care planning or a treatment decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6d7f5778f8050f355bbc72f9", "resource_id": "resource:receive-maternity-care:receive-maternity-care-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/receive-maternity-care-receive-maternity-care-primary", "summary": "Provides the England NHS navigation collection for labour, birth settings and immediate care information.", "title": "Labour and birth", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/labour-and-birth/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_pregnancy_and_parenting_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "before-birth-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/feec83564cd9e7ec7064ccc3", "resource_id": "resource:receive-maternity-care:before-birth-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/receive-maternity-care-before-birth-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Scotland to current pregnancy, birth and early-parenting services and support.", "title": "Having a baby in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family/children-parenting/having-baby" }, { "authority_role": "wales_children_and_families_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "before-birth-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ef0cf0893171a2650358287c", "resource_id": "resource:receive-maternity-care:before-birth-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/receive-maternity-care-before-birth-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Wales to current children, family, pregnancy and early-years policy and services.", "title": "Children and families in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/children-families" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_family_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0df12fed3fc29596100d1c68", "resource_id": "resource:receive-maternity-care:before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/receive-maternity-care-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Northern Ireland to current family, pregnancy, birth and local support services.", "title": "Family, home and community in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/family-home-and-community" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Receive maternity care", "user_needs": [ "Understand the current provider pathway and where urgent clinical advice is obtained." ] }, { "aliases": [ "get my NI number", "national insurance number for a young person" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "receive-national-insurance-number-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "receive-national-insurance-number-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Find the automatic or application route for a National Insurance number and correct a missing-number problem.", "domain": { "id": "transition-to-adulthood", "route": "life-course-domain/transition-to-adulthood", "title": "Transition to adulthood" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A young person needs a National Insurance number for work", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Find the automatic or application route for a National Insurance number and correct a 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"output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/95dadbb067214afa1e7907cf", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4c5c56441c36dd3d7e0a8b48", "resource_route": "resource/receive-national-insurance-number-receive-national-insurance-number-primary", "source_id": "receive-national-insurance-number-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ce28186a59fd5f6d3b3c7a08", "resource_route": "resource/receive-national-insurance-number-transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/17641e341908c7f917bf432c", "resource_route": "resource/receive-national-insurance-number-transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bb51d3d699ae6ff53323447a", "resource_route": "resource/receive-national-insurance-number-transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/receive-national-insurance-number-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "receive-national-insurance-number-primary", "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "receive-national-insurance-number", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Receive a National Insurance number\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish adult work, civic and identity records** in the **Transition to adulthood** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind the automatic or application route for a National Insurance number and correct a missing-number problem.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Apply for a National Insurance number](https://www.gov.uk/apply-national-insurance-number)\n- [Scotland: Education and training in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Young people in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish adult work, civic and identity records**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish adult work, civic and identity records", "source": "services/receive-national-insurance-number.md", "title": "Receive a National Insurance number within Establish adult work, civic and identity records" }, "process": { "id": "establish-adult-work-civic-and-identity-records", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-adult-work-civic-and-identity-records", "title": "Establish adult work, civic and identity records" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-careers-advice", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-careers-advice", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get careers advice" }, { "id": "obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain proof of age or identity" }, { "id": "register-to-vote-for-first-time", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-to-vote-for-first-time", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register to vote for the first time" }, { "id": "start-apprenticeship", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-apprenticeship", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start an apprenticeship" }, { "id": "start-first-job", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-first-job", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start a first job" }, { "id": "verify-qualifications", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/verify-qualifications", "sequenced": false, "title": "Verify qualifications" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a58da297aae15a571ffc11b5", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7eab4c74fcb47237df822fc1" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/receive-national-insurance-number", "situations": [ "A young person needs a National Insurance number for work, tax or benefits." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "national_insurance_number_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "receive-national-insurance-number-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not create, disclose or validate an individual's number." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "HM Revenue and Customs", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a2247f5cf914930bb756f849", "resource_id": "resource:receive-national-insurance-number:receive-national-insurance-number-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/receive-national-insurance-number-receive-national-insurance-number-primary", "summary": "Provides the current application and existing-number boundary.", "title": "Apply for a National Insurance number", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/apply-national-insurance-number" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4b6e659000dd7b2ff8aed78a", "resource_id": "resource:receive-national-insurance-number:transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/receive-national-insurance-number-transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish education, training and transition services.", "title": "Education and training in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d1e3985c68871e145cd0ca1a", "resource_id": "resource:receive-national-insurance-number:transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/receive-national-insurance-number-transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh learning, skills and transition services.", "title": "Education and skills in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/education-skills" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": 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"northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Check the current statutory rate and use pay-record, complaint or enforcement routes when pay may be short.", "domain": { "id": "employment", "route": "life-course-domain/employment", "title": "Employment" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A worker needs to understand or challenge minimum-wage pay.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Check the current statutory rate and use pay-record, complaint or enforcement routes when pay may be short.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5be2159b463bb74e21e8e6ec", 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"resource/receive-national-minimum-wage-receive-national-minimum-wage-primary", "source_id": "receive-national-minimum-wage-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1a2ff564b372c08faa288eb4", "resource_route": "resource/receive-national-minimum-wage-employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/receive-national-minimum-wage-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "receive-national-minimum-wage-primary", "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "receive-national-minimum-wage", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Receive the National Minimum Wage\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish employment terms, pay and leave** in the **Employment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck the current statutory rate and use pay-record, complaint or enforcement routes when pay may be short.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates](https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates)\n- [Scotland: National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates](https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates)\n- [Wales: National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates](https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish employment terms, pay and leave**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish employment terms, pay and leave", "source": "services/receive-national-minimum-wage.md", "title": "Receive the National Minimum Wage within Establish employment terms, pay and leave" }, "process": { "id": "establish-employment-terms-pay-and-leave", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-employment-terms-pay-and-leave", "title": "Establish employment terms, pay and leave" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "check-employment-status", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-employment-status", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check employment status" }, { "id": "get-statutory-sick-pay", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-statutory-sick-pay", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Statutory Sick Pay" }, { "id": "join-workplace-pension", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/join-workplace-pension", "sequenced": false, "title": "Join a workplace pension" }, { "id": "pay-paye-and-national-insurance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/pay-paye-and-national-insurance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Pay PAYE and National Insurance" }, { "id": "receive-written-employment-particulars", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-written-employment-particulars", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive written employment particulars" }, { "id": "take-parental-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-parental-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take parental leave" }, { "id": "take-statutory-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-statutory-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take statutory leave" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f26e2c4521a81189e28465b6", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/180a8ac4734db5915bbcb41a" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/receive-national-minimum-wage", "situations": [ "A worker needs to understand or challenge minimum-wage pay." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_minimum_wage_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "receive-national-minimum-wage-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not calculate pay or decide whether a worker or time is covered." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Business and Trade", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4b6b2804c8413567ba382415", "resource_id": "resource:receive-national-minimum-wage:receive-national-minimum-wage-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/receive-national-minimum-wage-receive-national-minimum-wage-primary", "summary": "Publishes current statutory minimum-wage rates and age bands.", "title": "National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_employment_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain employment guidance does not establish Northern Ireland law or procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/989604791985c5237ca2866e", "resource_id": "resource:receive-national-minimum-wage:employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/receive-national-minimum-wage-employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland employment rights and services.", "title": "Employment in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Receive the National Minimum Wage", "user_needs": [ "Find current rates, status boundaries and confidential enforcement or tribunal routes." ] }, { "aliases": [ "written statement of employment", "job terms in writing" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "receive-written-employment-particulars-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "receive-written-employment-particulars-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "receive-written-employment-particulars-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "receive-written-employment-particulars-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "receive-written-employment-particulars-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "receive-written-employment-particulars-primary" ], "state": "supported" 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"resource_route": "resource/receive-written-employment-particulars-receive-written-employment-particulars-primary", "source_id": "receive-written-employment-particulars-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7e04af4a0b5d2e6cd9d263c9", "resource_route": "resource/receive-written-employment-particulars-employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/receive-written-employment-particulars-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "receive-written-employment-particulars-primary", 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bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "receive-written-employment-particulars-primary", "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "receive-written-employment-particulars", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Receive written employment particulars\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish employment terms, pay and leave** in the **Employment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nObtain the employer's required written terms and retain corrections or dispute evidence.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Employment contracts and conditions, written statement](https://www.gov.uk/employment-contracts-and-conditions/written-statement-of-employment-particulars)\n- [Scotland: Employment contracts and conditions, written statement](https://www.gov.uk/employment-contracts-and-conditions/written-statement-of-employment-particulars)\n- [Wales: Employment contracts and conditions, written statement](https://www.gov.uk/employment-contracts-and-conditions/written-statement-of-employment-particulars)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish employment terms, pay and leave**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish employment terms, pay and leave", "source": "services/receive-written-employment-particulars.md", "title": "Receive written employment particulars within Establish employment terms, pay and leave" }, "process": { "id": "establish-employment-terms-pay-and-leave", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-employment-terms-pay-and-leave", "title": "Establish employment terms, pay and leave" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "check-employment-status", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-employment-status", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check employment status" }, { "id": "get-statutory-sick-pay", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-statutory-sick-pay", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Statutory Sick Pay" }, { "id": "join-workplace-pension", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/join-workplace-pension", "sequenced": false, "title": "Join a workplace pension" }, { "id": "pay-paye-and-national-insurance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/pay-paye-and-national-insurance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Pay PAYE and National Insurance" }, { "id": "receive-national-minimum-wage", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-national-minimum-wage", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive the National Minimum Wage" }, { "id": "take-parental-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-parental-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take parental leave" }, { "id": "take-statutory-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-statutory-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take statutory leave" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e133aec46e2147c3a0a1a53d", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6e6a07ec9a993790f634201c" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/receive-written-employment-particulars", "situations": [ "A worker is starting or continuing a job and needs the terms recorded." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_written_particulars_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "receive-written-employment-particulars-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not interpret an individual contract or determine employment status." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Business and Trade", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/75ccc02f081a797bc6c69e23", "resource_id": "resource:receive-written-employment-particulars:receive-written-employment-particulars-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/receive-written-employment-particulars-receive-written-employment-particulars-primary", "summary": "Explains Great Britain written-statement content and timing.", "title": "Employment contracts and conditions, written statement", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/employment-contracts-and-conditions/written-statement-of-employment-particulars" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_employment_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain employment 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"resource/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-primary", "source_id": "refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7cd847824a787442c92fb5ec", "resource_route": "resource/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "death-bereavement-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4fea2fcb6614d3841eb0ec56", "resource_route": "resource/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": 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"refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/46f2ddd594014f31a906efc8", "resource_route": "resource/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "death-bereavement-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d71b72d45895ac7bab3ec059", "resource_route": "resource/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-primary", "death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1a306c2b5d1ecee500d1c94c", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/edae3c088bbe5cc2434a0f49" }, "route": "service-episode/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/034af6cbc622d1fbbfe6c9b1", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/892575152f2b461c0089310c", "resource_route": "resource/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-primary", "source_id": "refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cf0868a67c626e7db1afa036", "resource_route": "resource/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "death-bereavement-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bcfc91142214d203ee2dee52", "resource_route": "resource/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-primary", "death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Refer a death to a coroner or procurator fiscal\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Certify, register, notify and arrange after death** in the **Death and bereavement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFollow the territorial investigation authority and its instructions when a death cannot proceed through ordinary medical certification and registration.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: When a death is reported to a coroner](https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/when-a-death-is-reported-to-a-coroner)\n- [Scotland: Births, deaths and family in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family)\n- [Wales: When a death is reported to a coroner](https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/when-a-death-is-reported-to-a-coroner)\n- [Northern Ireland: What to do when someone dies](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/births-deaths-baby-loss-marriages-and-civil-partnerships/death-and)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Certify, register, notify and arrange after death**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Certify, register, notify and arrange after death", "source": "services/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal.md", "title": "Refer a death to a coroner or procurator fiscal within Certify, register, notify and arrange after death" }, "process": { "id": "certify-register-notify-and-arrange-after-death", "route": "enclosing-process/certify-register-notify-and-arrange-after-death", "title": "Certify, register, notify and arrange after death" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-burial-or-cremation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-burial-or-cremation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange burial or cremation" }, { "id": "arrange-funeral", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-funeral", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange a funeral" }, { "id": "arrange-repatriation-after-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-repatriation-after-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange repatriation after death" }, { "id": "claim-bereavement-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-bereavement-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim bereavement support" }, { "id": "notify-organisations-after-a-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/notify-organisations-after-a-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Notify organisations after a death" }, { "id": "obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a medical certificate of cause of death" }, { "id": "register-a-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-a-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a death" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7835f3f1480661a7f0059e07", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/51a7c7705a580ccd281662ab" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal", "situations": [ "A death is sudden, unexplained, violent or otherwise within a statutory investigation boundary." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_coroner_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide whether a death is reportable, predict an investigation or establish Scottish or Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Justice", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/da4002599c494dcd34727f70", "resource_id": "resource:refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal:refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-primary", "summary": "Explains the England and Wales coroner investigation and release handoff after a reportable death.", "title": "When a death is reported to a coroner", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/when-a-death-is-reported-to-a-coroner" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_death_bereavement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide cause, investigation, informant status, succession, tax or individual entitlement." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c22fdb10a5ffd81fcdc2d269", "resource_id": "resource:refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal:death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-death-bereavement-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes bereaved people to current Scottish registration, funeral, support and estate information.", "title": "Births, deaths and family in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_after_death_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide cause, investigation, informant status, succession, tax or entitlement." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/44e2209c61cecd1134cd4936", "resource_id": "resource:refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal:death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal-death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes bereaved people to current Northern Ireland registration, funeral, notification, benefit and estate information.", "title": "What to do when someone dies", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/births-deaths-baby-loss-marriages-and-civil-partnerships/death-and" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Refer a death to a coroner or procurator fiscal", "user_needs": [ "Keep England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland investigation authorities distinct." ] }, { "aliases": [ "birth registration", "register a new baby" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "register-a-birth-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "register-a-birth-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "register-a-birth-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "register-a-birth-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Select the correct registrar route, register the birth and retain the official registration outputs.", "domain": { "id": "birth-and-newborn", "route": "life-course-domain/birth-and-newborn", "title": "Birth and the newborn period" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A live birth must be registered with the authority responsible for the place and jurisdiction.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Select the correct registrar route, register the birth and retain the official registration outputs.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b2e5ef4d7bca58206d872c16", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/07f082229f6060c9a17d8bee" }, "route": "service-episode/register-a-birth-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/79cc1fb3b15f0c62b24248d2", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ea0153e8be5eeb1141387110", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e437d203874e9f8341c4b829", "resource_route": "resource/register-a-birth-register-a-birth-primary", "source_id": "register-a-birth-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5ea4c1515b20625edb641cff", "resource_route": "resource/register-a-birth-birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5a320849b0353826213af9fc", "resource_route": "resource/register-a-birth-birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/register-a-birth-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "register-a-birth-primary", "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to register a birth and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Select the correct registrar route, register the birth and retain the official registration outputs." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/978cc6ae62c6ed85cf3e4e13", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b4d2da6cac79fae1ed1de777", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1953728ac3b8d5fe2ec8d946", "resource_route": "resource/register-a-birth-register-a-birth-primary", "source_id": "register-a-birth-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8cf4eb88b45c540da4ca0118", "resource_route": "resource/register-a-birth-birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a158d09bc3ecff2a0008b4f8", "resource_route": "resource/register-a-birth-birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/register-a-birth-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "register-a-birth-primary", "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a70e70a1d56156caf195335e", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/66fc59ca81c37afc14e573e1" }, "route": "service-episode/register-a-birth-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/80e80a86cb1d9c90b9ccac58", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/07710fb17674ecf690ad8c66", "resource_route": "resource/register-a-birth-register-a-birth-primary", "source_id": "register-a-birth-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3c589d8f66966ef04a06186d", "resource_route": "resource/register-a-birth-birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5661190de8de95233418d9a6", "resource_route": "resource/register-a-birth-birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/register-a-birth-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "register-a-birth-primary", "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "register-a-birth", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Register a birth\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish a child's legal identity** in the **Birth and the newborn period** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSelect the correct registrar route, register the birth and retain the official registration outputs.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Register a birth](https://www.gov.uk/register-birth)\n- [Scotland: Register a birth in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/register-birth)\n- [Wales: Register a birth](https://www.gov.uk/register-birth)\n- [Northern Ireland: Registering and naming your baby](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/registering-and-naming-your-baby)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish a child's legal identity**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish a child's legal identity", "source": "services/register-a-birth.md", "title": "Register a birth within Establish a child's legal identity" }, "process": { "id": "establish-a-childs-legal-identity", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-a-childs-legal-identity", "title": "Establish a child's legal identity" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "check-child-nationality-status", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-child-nationality-status", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check a child's nationality status" }, { "id": "claim-child-benefit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-child-benefit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Child Benefit" }, { "id": "correct-a-birth-registration", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/correct-a-birth-registration", "sequenced": false, "title": "Correct a birth registration" }, { "id": "establish-parental-responsibility", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/establish-parental-responsibility", "sequenced": false, "title": "Establish parental responsibility" }, { "id": "obtain-birth-certificates", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-birth-certificates", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain birth certificates" }, { "id": "obtain-child-passport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-child-passport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a child passport" }, { "id": "register-a-stillbirth", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-a-stillbirth", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a stillbirth" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0c166236fa42c03abc7923d0", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fb46949d67d711834ab02791" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/register-a-birth", "situations": [ "A live birth must be registered with the authority responsible for the place and jurisdiction." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_birth_registration_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "register-a-birth-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Scotland and Northern Ireland have separate registrar routes; no informant or registration decision is made here." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "General Register Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7cf4a25d90ccfd7af5cd0e10", "resource_id": "resource:register-a-birth:register-a-birth-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-a-birth-register-a-birth-primary", "summary": "Routes a birth in England or Wales to the responsible register office and current registration information.", "title": "Register a birth", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/register-birth" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_birth_registration_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove another newborn family's clinical, benefit, passport or nationality rules." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4ac2126638180b5eb38b405e", "resource_id": "resource:register-a-birth:birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-a-birth-birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Scotland through the current birth-registration service and its local registrar handoff.", "title": "Register a birth in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/register-birth" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_birth_and_newborn_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove every newborn health, benefit, passport or nationality rule." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3c6eb509ed112999c87e2bde", "resource_id": "resource:register-a-birth:birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-a-birth-birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Explains Northern Ireland birth registration and the registration-card handoff into GP registration.", "title": "Registering and naming your baby", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/registering-and-naming-your-baby" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Register a birth", "user_needs": [ "Find the registrar, required information, current time boundary and correction route." ] }, { "aliases": [ "death registration", "register someone who died", "death certificate", "registrar after a death", "make registrar appointment", "obtain death certificate" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England and Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-wales-register-office", "primary_source": "govuk-register-a-death", "provider": "organisation:local-register-office-england-wales" } ], "source_ids": [ "govuk-register-a-death", "govuk-correcting-death-registration" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-registration", "primary_source": "nrs-registering-a-death", "provider": "organisation:scottish-registration-authority" } ], "source_ids": [ "nrs-registering-a-death", "copfs-death-investigation" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-registration", "primary_source": "nidirect-registering-a-death", "provider": "organisation:general-register-office-northern-ireland" } ], "source_ids": [ "nidirect-registering-a-death", "nidirect-coroners" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Follow the certification or investigation handoff into the applicable registration authority and retain the official registration outputs.", "domain": { "id": "death-and-bereavement", "route": "life-course-domain/death-and-bereavement", "title": "Death and bereavement" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A synthetic certification or investigation output permits registration to proceed.", "id": "certification-to-registration-output", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Registration outputs and their next uses are retained.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b5a5c6e9e8668670f19e77dd", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/603522c4d2541fed5aa0ad91" }, "route": "service-episode/register-a-death-certification-to-registration-output", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current registrar booking or contact route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Certificate fees and local arrangements remain on current routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Synthetic MCCD or authority handoff and registration details." }, "id": "select-registration-route", "interaction": "Select the route from the place of death and applicable official instructions.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Registration can proceed or an investigation route controls." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Correct registrar route and evidence checklist." }, "provider": "organisation:registration-authority", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Registrar correction or complaint route where applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/346758f3af0e2f1f28605da2", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7e8629ca7f7ac70a57394ef5", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/56d76a6a2ca0256f10107d0e", "resource_route": "resource/register-a-death-govuk-register-a-death", "source_id": "govuk-register-a-death" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d774e8870864675c0c8ef907", "resource_route": "resource/register-a-death-nrs-registering-a-death", "source_id": "nrs-registering-a-death" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0451ca81edcc2b272f840930", "resource_route": "resource/register-a-death-nidirect-registering-a-death", "source_id": "nidirect-registering-a-death" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Applicable certification or investigation output and informant information." }, "route": "service-step/register-a-death-certification-to-registration-output-select-registration-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "National and registrar-specific rules remain separate." }, "source_ids": [ "govuk-register-a-death", "nrs-registering-a-death", "nidirect-registering-a-death" ], "time": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current jurisdiction-specific registration period applies." } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official registration route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Current service controls any certificate charge.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Synthetic information only." }, "id": "register-and-retain-outputs", "interaction": "Complete registration and retain the official certificates and references.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Ready for notification, funeral and estate processes." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Registration certificate, notification reference or burial/cremation document as applicable." }, "provider": "organisation:registration-authority", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current 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"requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Selected route's evidence and informant conditions." }, "route": "service-step/register-a-death-certification-to-registration-output-register-and-retain-outputs", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Registrar and investigation authority decide a real case." }, "source_ids": [ "govuk-correcting-death-registration", "nrs-registering-a-death", "nidirect-registering-a-death" ], "time": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction-specific deadline and appointment arrangements." } } ], "title": "Certification to registration output" }, { "entry_state": "A coroner or Procurator Fiscal process controls, or a completed entry may require correction.", "id": "investigation-or-correction-required", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The authority-specific instruction or correction outcome is retained.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c12ab057d4c1a9b0ef5624a6", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6a076e6c3075f2b4a201efe8" }, "route": "service-episode/register-a-death-investigation-or-correction-required", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official investigation or correction route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Synthetic authority output." }, "id": "hand-to-investigation-or-correction-authority", "interaction": "Follow the investigation or correction route without deciding cause or sufficiency.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Return to registration or retain the unresolved authority state." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Authority instruction or corrected entry." }, "provider": 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Register a death\n\nThis normalized family preserves the certification or investigation input,\nqualified informant, registering authority, jurisdiction, observation time and\nregistration outputs. It does not turn similar labels into one UK process.\n\nThe selected implementations are separate\n[England and Wales](generated/browser/services/england-wales-death-registration.html),\n[Scotland](generated/browser/services/scotland-death-registration.html) and\n[Northern Ireland](generated/browser/services/northern-ireland-death-registration.html) routes. The current\nregistrar, medical or investigation authority decides a real case.", "process_context": "Certify, register, notify and arrange after death", "source": "services/register-a-death.md", "title": "Register a death within Certify, register, notify and arrange after death" }, "process": { "id": "certify-register-notify-and-arrange-after-death", "route": "enclosing-process/certify-register-notify-and-arrange-after-death", "title": "Certify, register, notify and arrange after death" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-burial-or-cremation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-burial-or-cremation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange burial or cremation" }, { "id": "arrange-funeral", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-funeral", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange a funeral" }, { "id": "arrange-repatriation-after-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-repatriation-after-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange repatriation after death" }, { "id": "claim-bereavement-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-bereavement-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim bereavement support" }, { "id": "notify-organisations-after-a-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/notify-organisations-after-a-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Notify organisations after a death" }, { "id": "obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a medical certificate of cause of death" }, { "id": "refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/refer-death-to-coroner-or-procurator-fiscal", "sequenced": false, "title": "Refer a death to a coroner or procurator fiscal" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/83b6c2103e85c34dc7978abe", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1dfdc860a5694a7105d5aeed" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/register-a-death", "situations": [ "A death must be registered after the appropriate medical or investigation step.", "An informant needs the correct national or local registration route." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_death_registration_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "govuk-register-a-death", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England and Wales" ], "limitations": [ "does not itself establish identical registration rules across the UK" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Government Digital Service", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bfdcdde7c51f98ea3303a04c", "resource_id": "resource:register-a-death:govuk-register-a-death", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-a-death-govuk-register-a-death", "summary": "routes a user to the applicable UK or overseas registration service", "title": "Routes a user to the applicable UK or overseas registration service", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/register-a-death" }, { "authority_role": "england_wales_death_registration_correction", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "govuk-correcting-death-registration", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England and Wales" ], "limitations": [ "not a route for changing a correctly recorded fact or a Scottish or Northern Ireland registration" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "General Register Office", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3e9620d9197d2c6db75b283e", "resource_id": "resource:register-a-death:govuk-correcting-death-registration", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-a-death-govuk-correcting-death-registration", "summary": "correction boundary and application route for an England or Wales death entry", "title": "Correction boundary and application route for an England or Wales death entry", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/correcting-a-death-registration" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_death_registration_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "nrs-registering-a-death", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "delay and investigation exceptions remain with the registrar and Procurator Fiscal route" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "National Records of Scotland", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c1ab2c62f07cf77b326afbe2", "resource_id": "resource:register-a-death:nrs-registering-a-death", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-a-death-nrs-registering-a-death", "summary": "Scottish registration time, informant, MCCD, output and Tell Us Once handoff", "title": "Scottish registration time, informant, MCCD, output and Tell Us Once handoff", "url": "https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/registration/registering-a-death" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_death_investigation_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "copfs-death-investigation", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "no prediction of whether or how an individual death will be investigated" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9b31da24474e2727a806e24b", "resource_id": "resource:register-a-death:copfs-death-investigation", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-a-death-copfs-death-investigation", "summary": "bereaved-family explanation of the Scottish sudden, suspicious, unexpected or unexplained death-investigation boundary", "title": "Bereaved-family explanation of the Scottish sudden, suspicious, unexpected or unexplained death-investigation boundary", "url": "https://www.copfs.gov.uk/services/bereavement-support/guide-for-bereaved-family-members/deaths-investigation-video-script/" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_death_registration_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "nidirect-registering-a-death", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "no Tell Us Once claim and no route outside Northern Ireland" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "General Register Office for Northern Ireland", "position": 4, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/35bf51180ad11b9d3ee5ac6f", "resource_id": "resource:register-a-death:nidirect-registering-a-death", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-a-death-nidirect-registering-a-death", "summary": "Northern Ireland registration time, informant, MCCD, certificates and coroner exception", "title": "Northern Ireland registration time, informant, MCCD, certificates and coroner exception", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/registering-death-district-registrar" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_coroner_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "nidirect-coroners", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], 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changes the next step.", "Retain the certificates and references needed for later arrangements." ] }, { "aliases": [ "stillbirth registration", "register a baby born still" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "register-a-stillbirth-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "register-a-stillbirth-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "register-a-stillbirth-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "register-a-stillbirth-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Navigate the sensitive certification and registrar handoff for a stillbirth and retain the official outputs.", "domain": { "id": "birth-and-newborn", "route": "life-course-domain/birth-and-newborn", "title": "Birth and the newborn period" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A family or qualified informant needs the current stillbirth 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"exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/42932523cdf056b858136ad1", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/65bc4dc126f32e6cbc42673f" }, "route": "service-episode/register-a-stillbirth-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/36f66ba5b28d8f4895abd4e1", "resource_route": "resource/register-a-stillbirth-birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bd3eb112e9815c820e2a661a", "resource_route": "resource/register-a-stillbirth-birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/register-a-stillbirth-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "register-a-stillbirth-primary", "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "register-a-stillbirth", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Register a stillbirth\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish a child's legal identity** in the **Birth and the newborn period** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNavigate the sensitive certification and registrar handoff for a stillbirth and retain the official outputs.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Register a stillbirth](https://www.gov.uk/register-stillbirth)\n- [Scotland: Register a birth in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/register-birth)\n- [Wales: Register a stillbirth](https://www.gov.uk/register-stillbirth)\n- [Northern Ireland: Registering and naming your baby](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/registering-and-naming-your-baby)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish a child's legal identity**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish a child's legal identity", "source": "services/register-a-stillbirth.md", "title": "Register a stillbirth within Establish a child's legal identity" }, "process": { "id": "establish-a-childs-legal-identity", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-a-childs-legal-identity", "title": "Establish a child's legal identity" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "check-child-nationality-status", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-child-nationality-status", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check a child's nationality status" }, { "id": "claim-child-benefit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-child-benefit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Child Benefit" }, { "id": "correct-a-birth-registration", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/correct-a-birth-registration", "sequenced": false, "title": "Correct a birth registration" }, { "id": "establish-parental-responsibility", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/establish-parental-responsibility", "sequenced": false, "title": "Establish parental responsibility" }, { "id": "obtain-birth-certificates", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-birth-certificates", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain birth certificates" }, { "id": "obtain-child-passport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-child-passport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a child passport" }, { "id": "register-a-birth", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-a-birth", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a birth" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e9096ba1c1689ee6c7e095c5", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2c23723f079b1ded92008934" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/register-a-stillbirth", "situations": [ "A family or qualified informant needs the current stillbirth registration route after the clinical handoff." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_stillbirth_registration_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "register-a-stillbirth-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine certification, investigation, informant status or another nation's process." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "General Register Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5bf953824826af0ea678ccd1", "resource_id": "resource:register-a-stillbirth:register-a-stillbirth-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-a-stillbirth-register-a-stillbirth-primary", "summary": "Provides the England and Wales stillbirth-registration route and points to current support.", "title": "Register a stillbirth", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/register-stillbirth" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_birth_registration_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove another newborn family's clinical, benefit, passport or nationality rules." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": 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"redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/da9b846072d1ad10754c6c23", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/51ac2d8636e03dfea3aacaed", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/631affd291fdb0c8c5770dab", "resource_route": "resource/register-as-childminder-register-as-childminder-primary", "source_id": "register-as-childminder-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/58df3b4a3dcca1c4c58a8bdc", "resource_route": "resource/register-as-childminder-early-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/df5350302a4527debcda7bb2", "resource_route": 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"assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to register as a childminder and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Find the responsible regulator and complete the applicable registration and inspection route before offering childcare." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/144a134a225fd2dae6ae39ec", "resource_route": "resource/register-as-childminder-early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/register-as-childminder-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "register-as-childminder-primary", "early-years-scotland-handoff", "early-years-wales-handoff", "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/464adcfa12e62334000f6236", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1fc3f9bc2c0b21295b6ba59b" }, "route": "service-episode/register-as-childminder-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fd41d038015c2a6715ee9efd", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d236f58c60559db4ed8a328a", "resource_route": "resource/register-as-childminder-register-as-childminder-primary", "source_id": "register-as-childminder-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1e28ca07d9020396e4b417f3", "resource_route": "resource/register-as-childminder-early-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0885b722c10b6a1f3ead63b2", "resource_route": "resource/register-as-childminder-early-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/053c8785a720139716e0c3e7", "resource_route": "resource/register-as-childminder-early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/register-as-childminder-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "register-as-childminder-primary", "early-years-scotland-handoff", "early-years-wales-handoff", "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "register-as-childminder", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Register as a childminder\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Arrange childcare and early education** in the **Early years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind the responsible regulator and complete the applicable registration and inspection route before offering childcare.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Become a childminder or nanny in England](https://www.gov.uk/become-childminder-nanny)\n- [Scotland: Help with childcare costs in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/childcare-costs-help)\n- [Wales: Childcare in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/childcare)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Arrange childcare and early education**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Arrange childcare and early education", "source": "services/register-as-childminder.md", "title": "Register as a childminder within Arrange childcare and early education" }, "process": { "id": "arrange-childcare-and-early-education", "route": "enclosing-process/arrange-childcare-and-early-education", "title": "Arrange childcare and early education" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "find-registered-childcare", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/find-registered-childcare", "sequenced": false, "title": "Find registered childcare" }, { "id": "get-childcare-cost-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-childcare-cost-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get childcare cost support" }, { "id": "get-funded-early-education", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-funded-early-education", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get funded early education" }, { "id": "use-childrens-centres", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-childrens-centres", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use children's centres" }, { "id": "use-public-library-child-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-public-library-child-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use public library child services" }, { "id": "use-tax-free-childcare", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-tax-free-childcare", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use Tax-Free Childcare" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e1484dd3122de39243ab3e01", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/98e8b6f5bf862a8ce1026542" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/register-as-childminder", "situations": [ "A person wants to provide childminding or home-based childcare." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_childminder_registration_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "register-as-childminder-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine suitability, registration, employment status or another nation's regulatory process." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b38df91b84f45607a31da8ca", "resource_id": "resource:register-as-childminder:register-as-childminder-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-as-childminder-register-as-childminder-primary", "summary": "Routes prospective childminders and nannies in England through current registration and regulator information.", "title": "Become a childminder or nanny in England", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/become-childminder-nanny" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_childcare_support_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove a separate development, health, safeguarding, library or registration rule." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/16408d57fa262413a75cafc5", "resource_id": "resource:register-as-childminder:early-years-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-as-childminder-early-years-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes families in Scotland to current funded childcare and childcare-cost support.", "title": "Help with childcare costs in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/childcare-costs-help" }, { "authority_role": "wales_childcare_and_early_years_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9cc52eaa27a1833480130a83", "resource_id": "resource:register-as-childminder:early-years-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-as-childminder-early-years-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes families and providers in Wales to current childcare and early-years information.", "title": "Childcare in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/childcare" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_early_years_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/79f91a65157098d1de9a3d6c", "resource_id": "resource:register-as-childminder:early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-as-childminder-early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Northern Ireland to current education, childcare and early-years services.", "title": "Education in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Register as a childminder", "user_needs": [ "Identify the current regulator, suitability checks, registration route and review or complaint handoff." ] }, { "aliases": [ "become self employed", "start sole trader business", "register self employment" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "register-as-sole-trader-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "register-as-sole-trader-primary" ], 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navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Register as a sole trader\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Form and register an organisation** in the **Starting and running an organisation** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nConfirm the chosen structure, start the required records and use the current HMRC registration and reporting route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Set up as a sole trader](https://www.gov.uk/set-up-sole-trader)\n- [Scotland: Set up as a sole trader](https://www.gov.uk/set-up-sole-trader)\n- [Wales: Set up as a sole trader](https://www.gov.uk/set-up-sole-trader)\n- [Northern Ireland: Set up as a sole trader](https://www.gov.uk/set-up-sole-trader)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Form and register an organisation**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Form and register an organisation", "source": "services/register-as-sole-trader.md", "title": "Register as a sole trader within Form and register an organisation" }, "process": { "id": "form-and-register-an-organisation", "route": "enclosing-process/form-and-register-an-organisation", "title": "Form and register an organisation" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "establish-social-enterprise", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/establish-social-enterprise", "sequenced": false, "title": "Establish a social enterprise" }, { "id": "form-business-partnership", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/form-business-partnership", "sequenced": false, "title": "Form a business partnership" }, { "id": "incorporate-company", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/incorporate-company", "sequenced": false, "title": "Incorporate a company" }, { "id": "register-business-taxes", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-business-taxes", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register business taxes" }, { "id": "register-charity", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-charity", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a charity" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/424c0cc6b58770da26ec7f52", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4edf1fa4a241ee6df019640d" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/register-as-sole-trader", "situations": [ 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e8a350036d1d92d3c05e3c83", "resource_route": "resource/register-business-taxes-register-business-taxes-primary", "source_id": "register-business-taxes-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/register-business-taxes-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "register-business-taxes-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "register-business-taxes", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Register business taxes\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Form and register an organisation** in the **Starting and running an organisation** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the taxes and schemes that apply to the chosen structure and activity and complete each current HMRC registration and reporting route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Set up a business](https://www.gov.uk/set-up-business)\n- [Scotland: Set up a business](https://www.gov.uk/set-up-business)\n- [Wales: Set up a business](https://www.gov.uk/set-up-business)\n- [Northern Ireland: Set up a business](https://www.gov.uk/set-up-business)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Form and register an organisation**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Form and register an organisation", "source": "services/register-business-taxes.md", "title": "Register business taxes within Form and register an organisation" }, "process": { "id": "form-and-register-an-organisation", "route": "enclosing-process/form-and-register-an-organisation", "title": "Form and register an organisation" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "establish-social-enterprise", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/establish-social-enterprise", "sequenced": false, "title": "Establish a social enterprise" }, { "id": "form-business-partnership", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/form-business-partnership", "sequenced": false, "title": "Form a business partnership" }, { "id": "incorporate-company", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/incorporate-company", "sequenced": false, "title": "Incorporate a company" }, { "id": "register-as-sole-trader", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-as-sole-trader", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register as a sole trader" }, { "id": "register-charity", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-charity", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a charity" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/63776aaa0fe9ea17d45b5406", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/047647de9fb44b0c3b6264cb" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/register-business-taxes", "situations": [ 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"sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6f9605105896c605f1554178", "resource_route": "resource/register-charity-register-charity-primary", "source_id": "register-charity-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/421e17baa4044ceff79c68c6", "resource_route": "resource/register-charity-organisation-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "organisation-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f6d7b4e537f30ac47aeff6be", "resource_route": "resource/register-charity-organisation-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "organisation-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/register-charity-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, 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], "narrative": { "body": "# Register a charity\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Form and register an organisation** in the **Starting and running an organisation** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSelect the jurisdiction, charitable purposes and structure and apply to the responsible charity regulator and any other register required.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Set up a charity](https://www.gov.uk/setting-up-charity)\n- [Scotland: Business support in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/business-support)\n- [Wales: Set up a charity](https://www.gov.uk/setting-up-charity)\n- [Northern Ireland: Starting a business in Northern Ireland](https://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/starting-business)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Form and register an organisation**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Form and register an organisation", "source": "services/register-charity.md", "title": "Register a charity within Form and register an organisation" }, "process": { "id": "form-and-register-an-organisation", "route": "enclosing-process/form-and-register-an-organisation", "title": "Form and register an organisation" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "establish-social-enterprise", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/establish-social-enterprise", "sequenced": false, "title": "Establish a social enterprise" }, { "id": "form-business-partnership", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/form-business-partnership", "sequenced": false, "title": "Form a business partnership" }, { "id": "incorporate-company", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/incorporate-company", "sequenced": false, "title": "Incorporate a company" }, { "id": "register-as-sole-trader", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-as-sole-trader", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register as a sole trader" }, { "id": "register-business-taxes", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-business-taxes", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register business taxes" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6891edc43bf27f99d579bb61", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b2c531dcfc1602e21452bb20" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/register-charity", 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and registration.", "title": "Set up a charity", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/setting-up-charity" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_business_support_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "organisation-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not choose a legal form, register an organisation, decide tax or grant eligibility or replace regulators." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/42d1ac812fda631506a0012a", "resource_id": "resource:register-charity:organisation-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-charity-organisation-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes organisations to current Scottish startup, funding, licensing and operating support.", "title": "Business support in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/business-support" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_business_support_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "organisation-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not register an organisation, decide legal form or replace Companies House, HMRC or a licensing authority." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Invest Northern Ireland", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/af86e3eadba82c2336c0ae0c", "resource_id": "resource:register-charity:organisation-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-charity-organisation-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes organisations to Northern Ireland startup, structure, tax, licensing and business-support guidance.", "title": "Starting a business in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/starting-business" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Register a charity", "user_needs": [ "Identify the correct regulator and thresholds without a local charitable-status decision." ] }, { "aliases": [ "pay ICO fee", "data controller fee registration", "ICO public register" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "register-data-protection-fee-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "register-data-protection-fee-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "register-data-protection-fee-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "register-data-protection-fee-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "register-data-protection-fee-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "register-data-protection-fee-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "register-data-protection-fee-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "register-data-protection-fee-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Check the current exemption and fee route and register or renew with the Information Commissioner when 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6a6af5a8dd3d8c751864fda9", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/79a80d00500921d176bb737d", "resource_route": "resource/register-data-protection-fee-register-data-protection-fee-primary", "source_id": "register-data-protection-fee-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/register-data-protection-fee-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "register-data-protection-fee-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0dcf29405774753f827be9eb", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4c3db7cbb29f70ecd29bee7f", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/14f8fd326d3034efc72ad4cf", "resource_route": "resource/register-data-protection-fee-register-data-protection-fee-primary", "source_id": "register-data-protection-fee-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/register-data-protection-fee-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "register-data-protection-fee-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/368a0401d07db765d69f46c7", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9c71b1933c99bf535881fefe" }, "route": "service-episode/register-data-protection-fee-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cc5195b2dcc17b5623752de3", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/be7dcaf1adb6f4a5219770a1", "resource_route": "resource/register-data-protection-fee-register-data-protection-fee-primary", "source_id": "register-data-protection-fee-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/register-data-protection-fee-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "register-data-protection-fee-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "register-data-protection-fee", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Register a data-protection fee\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Operate, regulate and close an organisation** in the **Starting and running an organisation** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck the current exemption and fee route and register or renew with the Information Commissioner when required.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Pay the data protection fee](https://www.gov.uk/data-protection-register-notify-ico-personal-data)\n- [Scotland: Pay the data protection fee](https://www.gov.uk/data-protection-register-notify-ico-personal-data)\n- [Wales: Pay the data protection fee](https://www.gov.uk/data-protection-register-notify-ico-personal-data)\n- [Northern Ireland: Pay the data protection fee](https://www.gov.uk/data-protection-register-notify-ico-personal-data)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Operate, regulate and close an organisation**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Operate, regulate and close an organisation", "source": "services/register-data-protection-fee.md", "title": "Register a data-protection fee within Operate, regulate and close an organisation" }, "process": { "id": "operate-regulate-and-close-an-organisation", "route": "enclosing-process/operate-regulate-and-close-an-organisation", "title": "Operate, regulate and close an organisation" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "bid-for-public-contract", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/bid-for-public-contract", "sequenced": false, "title": "Bid for a public contract" }, { "id": "close-or-insolvent-business", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/close-or-insolvent-business", "sequenced": false, "title": "Close or make a business insolvent" }, { "id": "meet-workplace-safety-duties", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/meet-workplace-safety-duties", "sequenced": false, "title": "Meet workplace safety duties" }, { "id": "obtain-business-licence", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-business-licence", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a business licence" }, { "id": "run-payroll", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/run-payroll", "sequenced": false, "title": "Run payroll" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8b9afb2b1b8e3fa7c4eeea35", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/be81f395eccf0f89178109e5" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/register-data-protection-fee", "situations": [ "An organisation or sole trader processes personal data and needs to check the fee requirement." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_data_protection_fee_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "register-data-protection-fee-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide exemption, calculate a tier, register an organisation or establish wider compliance." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Information Commissioner's Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b07861e69db286e70f5ae052", "resource_id": "resource:register-data-protection-fee:register-data-protection-fee-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-data-protection-fee-register-data-protection-fee-primary", "summary": "Routes UK organisations to the Information Commissioner fee check, registration and public-register service.", "title": "Pay the data protection fee", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/data-protection-register-notify-ico-personal-data" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Register a data-protection fee", "user_needs": [ "Reach the regulator's current assessment without the bundle deciding exemption or fee tier." ] }, { "aliases": [ "protect product appearance", "file registered design", "UK design registration" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "register-design-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "register-design-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "register-design-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "register-design-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "register-design-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "register-design-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "register-design-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "register-design-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Identify the visual features and ownership, preserve novelty where required and use the current application, examination and registration route.", "domain": { "id": "ideas-creativity-and-research", "route": "life-course-domain/ideas-creativity-and-research", "title": "Ideas, creativity and research" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A creator or organisation wants registered protection for a product's appearance.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Identify the visual features and ownership, preserve novelty where required and use the current application, examination and registration route.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/517cb125e0f632036800cacb", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/730cf96b2ac4f5d75a994a3c" }, "route": "service-episode/register-design-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6fe03f718ffd4801f45867cb", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/02aa99dc6d73c2569d5ced83", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/285828f21190b642f78cc2b4", "resource_route": "resource/register-design-register-design-primary", "source_id": "register-design-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/register-design-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "register-design-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", 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"episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f2253e0936639440487502f3", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b5f42e3de453b11930e696d2", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cea176c822f586c350d3a3c7", "resource_route": "resource/register-design-register-design-primary", "source_id": "register-design-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/register-design-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "register-design-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/629a019c8370d48bfc77b244", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/09a03dc1f4a9e8f9ea9fdc88" }, "route": "service-episode/register-design-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/688a21845d35077b5a1587bc", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/21f5dd436adb1d8ce5d2e2b2", "resource_route": "resource/register-design-register-design-primary", "source_id": "register-design-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/register-design-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "register-design-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "register-design", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Register a design\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Protect and register intellectual property** in the **Ideas, creativity and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the visual features and ownership, preserve novelty where required and use the current application, examination and registration route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Register a design](https://www.gov.uk/register-a-design)\n- [Scotland: Register a design](https://www.gov.uk/register-a-design)\n- [Wales: Register a design](https://www.gov.uk/register-a-design)\n- [Northern Ireland: Register a design](https://www.gov.uk/register-a-design)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Protect and register intellectual property**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Protect and register intellectual property", "source": "services/register-design.md", "title": "Register a design within Protect and register intellectual property" }, "process": { "id": "protect-and-register-intellectual-property", "route": "enclosing-process/protect-and-register-intellectual-property", "title": "Protect and register intellectual property" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-patent", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-patent", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for a patent" }, { "id": "license-intellectual-property", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/license-intellectual-property", "sequenced": false, "title": "License intellectual property" }, { "id": "manage-copyright", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/manage-copyright", "sequenced": false, "title": "Manage copyright" }, { "id": "protect-confidential-information", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/protect-confidential-information", "sequenced": false, "title": "Protect confidential information" }, { "id": "register-trade-mark", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-trade-mark", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a trade mark" }, { "id": "request-patent-search-and-examination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/request-patent-search-and-examination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Request patent search and examination" }, { "id": "search-prior-art", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/search-prior-art", "sequenced": false, "title": "Search prior art" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e15b4fa2ffeef0473b56d1b2", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4d8a5a288a1d953574b87584" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/register-design", "situations": [ "A creator or organisation wants registered protection for a product's appearance." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_registered_design_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "register-design-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess novelty, ownership, scope, infringement or guarantee registration." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Intellectual Property Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a5a76eb1afe55a7cf8157af1", "resource_id": "resource:register-design:register-design-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-design-register-design-primary", "summary": "Explains UK registered-design eligibility, application, fees, examination and publication.", "title": "Register a design", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/register-a-design" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Register a design", "user_needs": [ "Distinguish registered, unregistered and other rights without a local validity decision." ] }, { "aliases": [ "tell council I moved in", "council tax account", "start paying council tax" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "register-for-council-tax-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7fb44995ebec0ac6aa791436" }, "route": "service-episode/register-for-council-tax-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", 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"not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to register for council tax and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Notify the responsible local billing authority about occupation and retain the account, valuation and liability decision for review if needed." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the 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"source_id": "housing-community-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7561f7c4d33ebb5de0f48309", "resource_route": "resource/register-for-council-tax-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/register-for-council-tax-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "register-for-council-tax-primary", "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "housing-community-wales-handoff", "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/46f1266247ac72c2a36ccc96", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cf463263357b08ed7e7003e6" }, "route": "service-episode/register-for-council-tax-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/59050b553335042548cdb3eb", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/da559ff90bf6ada87c50823f", "resource_route": "resource/register-for-council-tax-register-for-council-tax-primary", "source_id": "register-for-council-tax-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5593098893b767a596b49740", "resource_route": "resource/register-for-council-tax-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2c13ab96f55b4a42c8d01461", "resource_route": "resource/register-for-council-tax-housing-community-wales-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9c07334e616acb0f56e1eece", "resource_route": "resource/register-for-council-tax-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/register-for-council-tax-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "register-for-council-tax-primary", "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "housing-community-wales-handoff", "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "register-for-council-tax", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Register for Council Tax\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Secure and move home** in the **Housing and community life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNotify the responsible local billing authority about occupation and retain the account, valuation and liability decision for review if needed.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Council Tax](https://www.gov.uk/council-tax)\n- [Scotland: Housing and local services in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services)\n- [Wales: Housing in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/housing)\n- [Northern Ireland: Property and housing in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/property-and-housing)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Secure and move home**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Secure and move home", "source": "services/register-for-council-tax.md", "title": "Register for Council Tax within Secure and move home" }, "process": { "id": "secure-and-move-home", "route": "enclosing-process/secure-and-move-home", "title": "Secure and move home" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-social-housing", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-social-housing", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for social housing" }, { "id": "buy-home", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/buy-home", "sequenced": false, "title": "Buy a home" }, { "id": "get-homelessness-help", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-homelessness-help", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get homelessness help" }, { "id": "move-home", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/move-home", "sequenced": false, "title": "Move home" }, { "id": "protect-tenancy-deposit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/protect-tenancy-deposit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Protect a tenancy deposit" }, { "id": "prove-right-to-rent", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/prove-right-to-rent", "sequenced": false, "title": "Prove the right to rent" }, { "id": "rent-private-home", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/rent-private-home", "sequenced": false, "title": "Rent a private home" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8600d59146715e7ccd03284b", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fb20dbbeec0f300336adc710" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/register-for-council-tax", "situations": [ "A household has moved, changed occupancy or otherwise needs a Council Tax account." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_council_tax_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "register-for-council-tax-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not create an account, value a dwelling or decide liability, discounts or appeals." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/677e621b15f411d777d0546f", "resource_id": "resource:register-for-council-tax:register-for-council-tax-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-for-council-tax-register-for-council-tax-primary", "summary": "Explains Council Tax liability, bills, bands and local-authority handoffs in England and Wales.", "title": "Council Tax", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/council-tax" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England housing rule or local route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/58209c32092d5239b44b2246", "resource_id": "resource:register-for-council-tax:housing-community-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-for-council-tax-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish housing, planning, local-tax and neighbourhood services.", "title": "Housing and local services in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services" }, { "authority_role": "wales_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine a tenancy, planning, homelessness or adaptation decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b7fd8fcb752d3d8b8ed521ee", "resource_id": "resource:register-for-council-tax:housing-community-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-for-council-tax-housing-community-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh housing policy, support and service information.", "title": "Housing in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/housing" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "England, Scotland and Wales housing rules do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/38ac02ecb960f8e398ad39e0", "resource_id": "resource:register-for-council-tax:housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-for-council-tax-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland property, housing and local-service information.", "title": "Property and housing in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/property-and-housing" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Register for Council Tax", "user_needs": [ "Reach the correct local authority and preserve valuation, discount and appeal boundaries." ] }, { "aliases": [ "tell HMRC about untaxed income", "start paying income tax" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "register-for-income-tax-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "register-for-income-tax-primary" ], "state": 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"steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ada98b9b2eeec01c0ed6093d", "resource_route": "resource/register-for-income-tax-register-for-income-tax-primary", "source_id": "register-for-income-tax-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/register-for-income-tax-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "register-for-income-tax-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "register-for-income-tax", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Register for Income Tax\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Manage personal tax and contributions** in the **Money, tax and benefits** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the correct PAYE, Self Assessment or other HMRC route when income is not already handled correctly.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Income Tax](https://www.gov.uk/income-tax)\n- [Scotland: Income Tax](https://www.gov.uk/income-tax)\n- [Wales: Income Tax](https://www.gov.uk/income-tax)\n- [Northern Ireland: Income Tax](https://www.gov.uk/income-tax)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Manage personal tax and contributions**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Manage personal tax and contributions", "source": "services/register-for-income-tax.md", "title": "Register for Income Tax within Manage personal tax and contributions" }, "process": { "id": "manage-personal-tax-and-contributions", "route": "enclosing-process/manage-personal-tax-and-contributions", "title": "Manage personal tax and contributions" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-tax-refund", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-tax-refund", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim a tax refund" }, { "id": "file-self-assessment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/file-self-assessment", 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before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Register for VAT\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Manage personal tax and contributions** in the **Money, tax and benefits** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck the current registration boundary and submit business evidence through HMRC's VAT route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Register for VAT](https://www.gov.uk/vat-registration)\n- [Scotland: Register for VAT](https://www.gov.uk/vat-registration)\n- [Wales: Register for VAT](https://www.gov.uk/vat-registration)\n- [Northern Ireland: Register for VAT](https://www.gov.uk/vat-registration)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Manage personal tax and contributions**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Manage personal tax and contributions", "source": "services/register-for-vat.md", "title": "Register for VAT within Manage personal tax and contributions" }, "process": { "id": "manage-personal-tax-and-contributions", "route": "enclosing-process/manage-personal-tax-and-contributions", "title": "Manage personal tax and contributions" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-tax-refund", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-tax-refund", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim a tax refund" }, { "id": "file-self-assessment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/file-self-assessment", "sequenced": false, "title": "File Self Assessment" }, { "id": "get-national-insurance-record", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-national-insurance-record", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a National Insurance record" }, { "id": "manage-student-loan-repayment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/manage-student-loan-repayment", "sequenced": false, "title": "Manage student loan repayment" }, { "id": "pay-council-tax", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/pay-council-tax", "sequenced": false, "title": "Pay Council Tax" }, { "id": "register-for-income-tax", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-for-income-tax", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register for Income Tax" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ede0dd63b3238ca5835a91c6", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/218b7e82bc0d166f0d715d17" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/register-for-vat", "situations": [ "A business or person needs to determine whether or when to register for VAT." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_vat_registration_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "register-for-vat-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not calculate taxable turnover or decide registration, exemption or liability." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "HM Revenue and Customs", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c29aafbd0eefd5cfb68271ec", "resource_id": "resource:register-for-vat:register-for-vat-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-for-vat-register-for-vat-primary", "summary": "Explains current VAT registration thresholds and application routes.", "title": "Register for VAT", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/vat-registration" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Register for VAT", "user_needs": [ "Find mandatory, voluntary and exception routes without calculating taxable turnover locally." ] }, { "aliases": [ "make an LPA", "appoint attorney", "register power of attorney" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "register-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "register-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "family-change-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "family-change-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "register-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "register-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Choose the applicable authority and instrument, complete the donor and attorney steps and register it before relying on the authority it grants.", "domain": { "id": "relationships-and-family-change", "route": "life-course-domain/relationships-and-family-change", "title": "Relationships and family change" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person wants to appoint others to make specified decisions if needed.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Choose the applicable authority and instrument, complete the donor and attorney steps and register it before relying on the authority it grants.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2a6647f2471c4eef30643ffd", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4d8216365098ce87a7104acd" }, "route": "service-episode/register-lasting-power-of-attorney-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6d54e383a17223ae6e5fe044", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dfc7a0845b5cf2b2615664e8", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/94d8684acd4d0e2cbeda1256", "resource_route": "resource/register-lasting-power-of-attorney-register-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary", "source_id": "register-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b5e50de3785dcf37a191f184", "resource_route": "resource/register-lasting-power-of-attorney-family-change-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c23c074f96c0c2df2dd8cee9", "resource_route": "resource/register-lasting-power-of-attorney-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/register-lasting-power-of-attorney-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "register-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary", "family-change-scotland-handoff", "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to register lasting power of attorney and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Choose the applicable authority and instrument, complete the donor and attorney steps and register it before relying on the authority it grants." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bb0a27a679130a8b1afc5ffe", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5c2d20147c03e807d847ef7d", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bcfe7cf091a7dc34477fdd14", "resource_route": "resource/register-lasting-power-of-attorney-register-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary", "source_id": "register-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/84f54db733b552f06b83967d", "resource_route": "resource/register-lasting-power-of-attorney-family-change-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3fa9415990bb4940a7eeca50", "resource_route": "resource/register-lasting-power-of-attorney-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/register-lasting-power-of-attorney-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "register-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary", "family-change-scotland-handoff", "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/05bc22a934e162362b45e32b", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cd59bbe0f9b9fb54f6df93e8" }, "route": "service-episode/register-lasting-power-of-attorney-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2c2183751e9aa16466de341a", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ce0105b483864528fd027faf", "resource_route": "resource/register-lasting-power-of-attorney-register-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary", "source_id": "register-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/87545df6186ae93dcaab5526", "resource_route": "resource/register-lasting-power-of-attorney-family-change-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/14a4f6af027ac8c55a325761", "resource_route": "resource/register-lasting-power-of-attorney-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/register-lasting-power-of-attorney-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "register-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary", "family-change-scotland-handoff", "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "register-lasting-power-of-attorney", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Register lasting power of attorney\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Obtain family protection, representation and care** in the **Relationships and family change** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nChoose the applicable authority and instrument, complete the donor and attorney steps and register it before relying on the authority it grants.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Make, register or end a lasting power of attorney](https://www.gov.uk/power-of-attorney)\n- [Scotland: Births, deaths and family in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family)\n- [Wales: Make, register or end a lasting power of attorney](https://www.gov.uk/power-of-attorney)\n- [Northern Ireland: Find out your rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/find-out-your-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Obtain family protection, representation and care**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Obtain family protection, representation and care", "source": "services/register-lasting-power-of-attorney.md", "title": "Register lasting power of attorney within Obtain family protection, representation and care" }, "process": { "id": "obtain-family-protection-representation-and-care", "route": "enclosing-process/obtain-family-protection-representation-and-care", "title": "Obtain family protection, representation and care" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-deputyship", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-deputyship", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for deputyship" }, { "id": "get-domestic-abuse-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-domestic-abuse-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get domestic abuse support" }, { "id": "get-family-carer-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-family-carer-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get family carer support" }, { "id": "use-family-court", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-family-court", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a family court" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c848bd98de4d7c08eaf1b085", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5f95afddd11d334aa976ed94" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/register-lasting-power-of-attorney", "situations": [ "A person wants to appoint others to make specified decisions if needed." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_lasting_power_of_attorney_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "register-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess capacity, provide legal advice or establish Scottish or Northern Ireland instruments." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Office of the Public Guardian", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1f04728824d6a3aecec3c442", "resource_id": "resource:register-lasting-power-of-attorney:register-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-lasting-power-of-attorney-register-lasting-power-of-attorney-primary", "summary": "Explains England and Wales health, welfare, property and financial LPA creation and registration.", "title": "Make, register or end a lasting power of attorney", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/power-of-attorney" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_family_change_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "family-change-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine status, legal rights, eligibility, safeguarding action or an individual court route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a54007289ae2ad932f9b6b2f", "resource_id": "resource:register-lasting-power-of-attorney:family-change-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-lasting-power-of-attorney-family-change-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish marriage, civil partnership, family, care and representation information.", "title": "Births, deaths and family in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_family_change_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish the applicable court, safeguarding, care or representation route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/68ec933f7d1fc9053b5e0c76", "resource_id": "resource:register-lasting-power-of-attorney:family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-lasting-power-of-attorney-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Introduces Northern Ireland marriage, civil partnership, separation, parental-responsibility, family-safety and wider rights handoffs.", "title": "Find out your rights in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/find-out-your-rights" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Register lasting power of attorney", "user_needs": [ "Distinguish the territorial instruments, capacity boundary, registration and objection routes." ] }, { "aliases": [ "register baby with GP", "newborn NHS registration" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "register-newborn-with-health-services-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "register-newborn-with-health-services-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "birth-newborn-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "birth-newborn-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Connect a newborn to the current primary-care and child-health record routes after birth registration.", "domain": { "id": "birth-and-newborn", "route": "life-course-domain/birth-and-newborn", "title": "Birth and the newborn period" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A newborn needs to be registered with the relevant primary-care and child-health services.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Connect a newborn to the current primary-care and child-health record routes after birth registration.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9efe432f80ec196eae4a5e9c", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9538037c346309d8e1777aca" }, "route": "service-episode/register-newborn-with-health-services-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f78620b7c7ef642ddd99f771", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0d5bac93c3714aeb2ec699e0", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/685edc71c02ec92942ea5122", "resource_route": "resource/register-newborn-with-health-services-register-newborn-with-health-services-primary", "source_id": "register-newborn-with-health-services-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3b6527c4f8c907ccb0db5666", "resource_route": "resource/register-newborn-with-health-services-birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/11dcd7e7420ebb0054daad1e", "resource_route": "resource/register-newborn-with-health-services-birth-newborn-wales-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e3af5a9f0f2877846f7906dc", 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fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5eb011a745db167d2d911fc4", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2b5d44f525fba7b2c6bddf09" }, "route": "service-episode/register-newborn-with-health-services-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0c59467960e13ae6cce3af50", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b730c80d4d6ea39b3f649487", "resource_route": "resource/register-newborn-with-health-services-register-newborn-with-health-services-primary", "source_id": "register-newborn-with-health-services-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/798521eae77b5fab13914b00", "resource_route": "resource/register-newborn-with-health-services-birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/abc130957639ec122cab3375", "resource_route": "resource/register-newborn-with-health-services-birth-newborn-wales-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2f143123fd6b815a7cfc0ce4", "resource_route": "resource/register-newborn-with-health-services-birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/register-newborn-with-health-services-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "register-newborn-with-health-services-primary", "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "birth-newborn-wales-handoff", "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "register-newborn-with-health-services", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Register a newborn with health services\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Start newborn healthcare** in the **Birth and the newborn period** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nConnect a newborn to the current primary-care and child-health record routes after birth registration.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: How to register with a GP surgery](https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/gps/how-to-register-with-a-gp-surgery/)\n- [Scotland: Register a birth in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/register-birth)\n- [Wales: Children and families in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/children-families)\n- [Northern Ireland: Registering and naming your baby](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/registering-and-naming-your-baby)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Start newborn healthcare**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Start newborn healthcare", "source": "services/register-newborn-with-health-services.md", "title": "Register a newborn with health services within Start newborn healthcare" }, "process": { "id": "start-newborn-healthcare", "route": "enclosing-process/start-newborn-healthcare", "title": "Start newborn healthcare" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-neonatal-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-neonatal-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access neonatal care" }, { "id": "arrange-newborn-screening", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-newborn-screening", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange newborn screening" }, { "id": "start-childhood-vaccinations", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-childhood-vaccinations", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start childhood vaccinations" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/89ea9a5b89a56a5bc658be3e", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d2c27e63d309cef1a85dd686" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/register-newborn-with-health-services", "situations": [ "A newborn needs to be registered with the relevant primary-care and child-health services." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_gp_registration_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "register-newborn-with-health-services-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not select a practice, decide registration, establish another nation's process or replace urgent care." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/39959d5609ff607874fca342", "resource_id": "resource:register-newborn-with-health-services:register-newborn-with-health-services-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-newborn-with-health-services-register-newborn-with-health-services-primary", "summary": "Explains the England NHS route for registering with a GP surgery, including a newborn handoff where applicable.", "title": "How to register with a GP surgery", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/gps/how-to-register-with-a-gp-surgery/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_birth_registration_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove another newborn family's clinical, benefit, passport or nationality rules." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0d869f63846460dba47b21e3", "resource_id": "resource:register-newborn-with-health-services:birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-newborn-with-health-services-birth-newborn-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Scotland through the current birth-registration service and its local registrar handoff.", "title": "Register a birth in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/register-birth" }, { "authority_role": "wales_birth_and_newborn_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "birth-newborn-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d181dc17d4686cfb28e34446", "resource_id": "resource:register-newborn-with-health-services:birth-newborn-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-newborn-with-health-services-birth-newborn-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Wales to current birth, newborn, parenting and family-service material.", "title": "Children and families in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/children-families" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_birth_and_newborn_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove every newborn health, benefit, passport or nationality rule." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f8878580bc665ae2f623e1b7", "resource_id": "resource:register-newborn-with-health-services:birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-newborn-with-health-services-birth-newborn-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Explains Northern Ireland birth registration and the registration-card handoff into GP registration.", "title": "Registering and naming your baby", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/registering-and-naming-your-baby" } ], 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"assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9363c5fc67f0b32d066b28ea", "resource_route": "resource/register-to-vote-for-first-time-register-to-vote-for-first-time-primary", "source_id": "register-to-vote-for-first-time-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/65f1af3c2a87949cdab72683", "resource_route": "resource/register-to-vote-for-first-time-transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/600a37af53a8d565a693de72", "resource_route": "resource/register-to-vote-for-first-time-transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/81a2cd219c5d5b35b5061f86", "resource_route": "resource/register-to-vote-for-first-time-transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": 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"exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e99bf10c75ddcc3910cb30c8", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/218e4f58ca631b028dc4c5a7" }, "route": "service-episode/register-to-vote-for-first-time-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3800833c28895c3568fc2ec2", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/17fbc32a85376edcd09642a2", "resource_route": "resource/register-to-vote-for-first-time-register-to-vote-for-first-time-primary", "source_id": "register-to-vote-for-first-time-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8501802ec45fb1b079d8ec46", "resource_route": "resource/register-to-vote-for-first-time-transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b804a0d509bc97d2c92afed9", "resource_route": "resource/register-to-vote-for-first-time-transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ec3b57a7a3566bad93b07925", "resource_route": "resource/register-to-vote-for-first-time-transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/register-to-vote-for-first-time-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "register-to-vote-for-first-time-primary", "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "register-to-vote-for-first-time", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Register to vote for the first time\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish adult work, civic and identity records** in the **Transition to adulthood** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSubmit an electoral-registration application and respond to any local registration evidence request.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Register to vote](https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote)\n- [Scotland: Education and training in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Young people in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish adult work, civic and identity records**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish adult work, civic and identity records", "source": "services/register-to-vote-for-first-time.md", "title": "Register to vote for the first time within Establish adult work, civic and identity records" }, "process": { "id": "establish-adult-work-civic-and-identity-records", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-adult-work-civic-and-identity-records", "title": "Establish adult work, civic and identity records" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-careers-advice", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-careers-advice", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get careers advice" }, { "id": "obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain proof of age or identity" }, { "id": "receive-national-insurance-number", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-national-insurance-number", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive a National Insurance number" }, { "id": "start-apprenticeship", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-apprenticeship", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start an apprenticeship" }, { "id": "start-first-job", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-first-job", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start a first job" }, { "id": "verify-qualifications", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/verify-qualifications", "sequenced": false, "title": "Verify qualifications" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/576b662b0dfa1bc1b44281db", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ebe163dac9a71cb9c3ca2adf" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/register-to-vote-for-first-time", "situations": [ "A newly eligible person wants to join the electoral register." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "electoral_registration_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "register-to-vote-for-first-time-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine eligibility or confirm registration." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/072190f3a1fb88c6ec33cf81", "resource_id": "resource:register-to-vote-for-first-time:register-to-vote-for-first-time-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-to-vote-for-first-time-register-to-vote-for-first-time-primary", "summary": "Provides the current online electoral-registration route and local-officer handoff.", "title": "Register to vote", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1d3e96fe0a635f530c102d85", "resource_id": "resource:register-to-vote-for-first-time:transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-to-vote-for-first-time-transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish education, training and transition services.", "title": "Education and training in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dc2a3515d01903db7dc66309", "resource_id": "resource:register-to-vote-for-first-time:transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-to-vote-for-first-time-transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh learning, skills and transition services.", "title": "Education and skills in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/education-skills" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c2f9a0bd93db72b6122d8c70", "resource_id": "resource:register-to-vote-for-first-time:transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-to-vote-for-first-time-transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes young people to current Northern Ireland services and responsibilities.", "title": "Young people in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Register to vote for the first time", "user_needs": [ "Use the correct registration route and understand that the local officer decides the application." ] }, { "aliases": [ "protect brand name", "file UK trademark", "register logo or mark" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "register-trade-mark-primary", "provider": 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"organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "register-trade-mark-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Search relevant marks and classifications, select the goods or services and use the application, examination, publication and opposition route.", "domain": { "id": "ideas-creativity-and-research", "route": "life-course-domain/ideas-creativity-and-research", "title": "Ideas, creativity and research" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person or organisation wants registered protection for a brand sign in the United Kingdom.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Search relevant marks and classifications, select the goods or services and use the application, examination, publication and opposition route.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b90252f987009c13d79effa2", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/aec34b1fd1f1a92dfac06277" }, "route": "service-episode/register-trade-mark-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8827f277515dfd500a7f6e25", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ccd6b5f26e5d34437b14a85e", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a83207daabf491c514848a9c", "resource_route": "resource/register-trade-mark-register-trade-mark-primary", "source_id": "register-trade-mark-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/register-trade-mark-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "register-trade-mark-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to register a trade mark and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Search relevant marks and classifications, select the goods or services and use the application, examination, publication and opposition route." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3b24087ed29aa9fd1a5a6d24", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3d6695f1cd1d066e43103a35", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c3012aed20e3390182ce9599", "resource_route": "resource/register-trade-mark-register-trade-mark-primary", "source_id": "register-trade-mark-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/register-trade-mark-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "register-trade-mark-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9cd46d08ecb7740ff8462473", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c5ebe5d1fbf32e7827767730" }, "route": "service-episode/register-trade-mark-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4adeb4e109271bb12cc72555", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9f7b3b38ec90585ff9dd7d01", "resource_route": "resource/register-trade-mark-register-trade-mark-primary", "source_id": "register-trade-mark-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/register-trade-mark-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "register-trade-mark-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "register-trade-mark", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Register a trade mark\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Protect and register intellectual property** in the **Ideas, creativity and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSearch relevant marks and classifications, select the goods or services and use the application, examination, publication and opposition route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: How to register a trade mark](https://www.gov.uk/how-to-register-a-trade-mark)\n- [Scotland: How to register a trade mark](https://www.gov.uk/how-to-register-a-trade-mark)\n- [Wales: How to register a trade mark](https://www.gov.uk/how-to-register-a-trade-mark)\n- [Northern Ireland: How to register a trade mark](https://www.gov.uk/how-to-register-a-trade-mark)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Protect and register intellectual property**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Protect and register intellectual property", "source": "services/register-trade-mark.md", "title": "Register a trade mark within Protect and register intellectual property" }, "process": { "id": "protect-and-register-intellectual-property", "route": "enclosing-process/protect-and-register-intellectual-property", "title": "Protect and register intellectual property" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-patent", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-patent", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for a patent" }, { "id": "license-intellectual-property", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/license-intellectual-property", "sequenced": false, "title": "License intellectual property" }, { "id": "manage-copyright", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/manage-copyright", "sequenced": false, "title": "Manage copyright" }, { "id": "protect-confidential-information", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/protect-confidential-information", "sequenced": false, "title": "Protect confidential information" }, { "id": "register-design", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-design", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a design" }, { "id": "request-patent-search-and-examination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/request-patent-search-and-examination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Request patent search and examination" }, { "id": "search-prior-art", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/search-prior-art", "sequenced": false, "title": "Search 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ece6482b28f2fb19c0bc18ff", "resource_id": "resource:register-trade-mark:register-trade-mark-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-trade-mark-register-trade-mark-primary", "summary": "Explains UK search, classification, application, examination, publication and opposition stages.", "title": "How to register a trade mark", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/how-to-register-a-trade-mark" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Register a trade mark", "user_needs": [ "Find the official route without clearance, classification or conflict advice from the bundle." ] }, { "aliases": [ "DVLA vehicle registration", "get V5C log book", "tell DVLA about vehicle" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "register-vehicle-primary", "provider": 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"relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/96cc56f126d8ce90d2220abc", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/56ef39eaf20917a9d241610c" }, "route": "service-episode/register-vehicle-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/66ea73579fcab71a54c493de", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7e5f0d5963e982723df55a73", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1b38ebec3370ce03f6435fa4", "resource_route": "resource/register-vehicle-register-vehicle-primary", "source_id": "register-vehicle-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3c03140982abe880627e8468", "resource_route": "resource/register-vehicle-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cb00215137baba61b9de7c2e", "resource_route": "resource/register-vehicle-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bbab506b2e18f65c0b2f151c", "resource_route": "resource/register-vehicle-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/register-vehicle-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "register-vehicle-primary", "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to register a vehicle and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Notify the responsible vehicle-registration authority about acquisition, import, build or keeper change and retain registration evidence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4b90ee73a7b2ec14069b721d", "resource_route": "resource/register-vehicle-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dfe28f5958cdd1a4ec5ba1c5", "resource_route": "resource/register-vehicle-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/register-vehicle-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "register-vehicle-primary", "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/69171b0df8b6128b3be25f12", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2c394798f5dce55fd94c763a" }, "route": "service-episode/register-vehicle-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fe97072ef7237012f1c2ef2c", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e8fdc9671e271eb35faf2780", "resource_route": "resource/register-vehicle-register-vehicle-primary", "source_id": "register-vehicle-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c67ba5b4d15711fde105c2c2", "resource_route": "resource/register-vehicle-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/85bf8d0a91fc3dc25be4704b", "resource_route": "resource/register-vehicle-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/30687a5adc885cbf0a03851a", "resource_route": "resource/register-vehicle-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/register-vehicle-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "register-vehicle-primary", "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "register-vehicle", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Register a vehicle\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Own and use a road vehicle** in the **Public and private transport** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNotify the responsible vehicle-registration authority about acquisition, import, build or keeper change and retain registration evidence.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Vehicle registration](https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-registration)\n- [Scotland: Transport and travel in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport)\n- [Wales: Transport in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/transport)\n- [Northern Ireland: Travel, transport and roads in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/travel-transport-and-roads)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Own and use a road vehicle**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Own and use a road vehicle", "source": "services/register-vehicle.md", "title": "Register a vehicle within Own and use a road vehicle" }, "process": { "id": "own-and-use-a-road-vehicle", "route": "enclosing-process/own-and-use-a-road-vehicle", "title": "Own and use a road vehicle" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-parking-permit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-parking-permit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a parking permit" }, { "id": "obtain-mot-test", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-mot-test", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain an MOT test" }, { "id": "obtain-motor-insurance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-motor-insurance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain motor insurance" }, { "id": "pay-clean-air-zone-charge", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/pay-clean-air-zone-charge", "sequenced": false, "title": "Pay a clean air zone charge" }, { "id": "report-road-collision", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-road-collision", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a road collision" }, { "id": "tax-or-sorn-vehicle", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/tax-or-sorn-vehicle", "sequenced": false, "title": "Tax or make a SORN for a vehicle" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c902339aabe8644eb86dae3e", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f45ffcd9de852ee0d47db3f5" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/register-vehicle", "situations": [ "A vehicle or keeper change needs to be entered on the applicable official register." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_vehicle_registration_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "register-vehicle-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove ownership, approve an import or establish Northern Ireland-specific procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3ea6a50a29d4828fe6ec0ac2", "resource_id": "resource:register-vehicle:register-vehicle-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-vehicle-register-vehicle-primary", "summary": "Routes Great Britain users to current vehicle registration and V5C transactions.", "title": "Vehicle registration", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-registration" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England concession, permit or operator-licensing route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/04140f2c381966d9c3df2f7c", "resource_id": "resource:register-vehicle:public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-vehicle-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish public, accessible, local and road-transport services.", "title": "Transport and travel in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport" }, { "authority_role": "wales_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine a local permit, concession, operator licence or journey accessibility." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b40acd7f71ee2266ac1ddab0", "resource_id": "resource:register-vehicle:public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-vehicle-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh transport policy, concessions and service information.", "title": "Transport in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/transport" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain vehicle and local-transport pages do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2e1ced8de0248dff4a95412b", "resource_id": "resource:register-vehicle:public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-vehicle-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland public-transport, motoring and road services.", "title": "Travel, transport and roads in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/travel-transport-and-roads" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Register a vehicle", "user_needs": [ "Find the correct registration transaction and distinguish keeper records from ownership, tax and insurance." ] }, { "aliases": [ "join a doctor surgery", "find local GP", "change GP practice" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "register-with-gp-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "register-with-gp-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "health-scotland-handoff", "provider": 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eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Register with a GP\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Use routine and preventive healthcare** in the **Health throughout life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind a practice using the current territorial route, submit its registration information and use the published refusal or access route if registration fails.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Register with a GP surgery](https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/gps/how-to-register-with-a-gp-surgery/)\n- [Scotland: NHS services in Scotland](https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/)\n- [Wales: NHS 111 Wales](https://111.wales.nhs.uk/)\n- [Northern Ireland: Health and Social Care Northern Ireland online](https://online.hscni.net/)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Use routine and preventive healthcare**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Use routine and preventive healthcare", "source": "services/register-with-gp.md", "title": "Register with a GP within Use routine and preventive healthcare" }, "process": { "id": "use-routine-and-preventive-healthcare", "route": "enclosing-process/use-routine-and-preventive-healthcare", "title": "Use routine and preventive healthcare" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-dental-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-dental-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access dental care" }, { "id": "access-eye-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-eye-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access eye care" }, { "id": "get-prescription", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-prescription", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a prescription" }, { "id": "get-sexual-and-reproductive-healthcare", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-sexual-and-reproductive-healthcare", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get sexual and reproductive healthcare" }, { "id": "get-vaccination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-vaccination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a vaccination" }, { "id": "use-pharmacy-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-pharmacy-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use pharmacy services" }, { "id": "use-screening-service", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-screening-service", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a screening service" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": 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"rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-with-gp-register-with-gp-primary", "summary": "Explains England GP registration, temporary-patient and refusal routes.", "title": "Register with a GP surgery", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/gps/how-to-register-with-a-gp-surgery/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_health_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "health-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, triage or establish the correct service for an individual situation." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS 24", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/73b7069a4f75d50ae481f05d", "resource_id": "resource:register-with-gp:health-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": 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"register-with-health-services-as-student-primary", "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3eef68964039f3e97137c771", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/32bc780d06e7cf5b76b0fda9" }, "route": "service-episode/register-with-health-services-as-student-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { 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ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ac9fa7737b10be243c106fda", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d5c121823676a4f0f51e62e2", "resource_route": "resource/register-with-health-services-as-student-register-with-health-services-as-student-primary", "source_id": "register-with-health-services-as-student-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9d258d4badf3092d69540344", "resource_route": "resource/register-with-health-services-as-student-post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6acb587bda36f68f618aaae9", "resource_route": "resource/register-with-health-services-as-student-post-school-study-wales-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/10d5faee282c13d07927c9c3", "resource_route": "resource/register-with-health-services-as-student-post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/register-with-health-services-as-student-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "register-with-health-services-as-student-primary", "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "register-with-health-services-as-student", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Register with health services as a student\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter and fund post-school study** in the **Further education, university and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nRegister with the appropriate primary-care service near study and retain routes for existing or urgent care.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: How to register with a GP surgery](https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/gps/how-to-register-with-a-gp-surgery/)\n- [Scotland: Further and higher education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Further and higher education in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Higher education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education/higher-education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter and fund post-school study**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter and fund post-school study", "source": "services/register-with-health-services-as-student.md", "title": "Register with health services as a student within Enter and fund post-school study" }, "process": { "id": "enter-and-fund-post-school-study", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-and-fund-post-school-study", "title": "Enter and fund post-school study" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-adult-skills-training", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-adult-skills-training", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access adult skills training" }, { "id": "apply-for-further-education-course", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-further-education-course", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for a further education course" }, { "id": "apply-to-university", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-to-university", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply to university" }, { "id": "arrange-student-accommodation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-student-accommodation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange student accommodation" }, { "id": "claim-student-council-tax-disregard", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-student-council-tax-disregard", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim a student council tax disregard" }, { "id": "get-disabled-students-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-disabled-students-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Disabled Students' Allowance" }, { "id": "get-student-finance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-student-finance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get student finance" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/06aa4a93c7670bc486c2bce8", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1d280b17ca4cffd6557e8e0d" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/register-with-health-services-as-student", "situations": [ "A student has moved for study and needs access to routine healthcare." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_gp_registration_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "register-with-health-services-as-student-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, choose a practice, guarantee registration or replace urgent care." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/11610ba41ff6148efb266e7b", "resource_id": "resource:register-with-health-services-as-student:register-with-health-services-as-student-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-with-health-services-as-student-register-with-health-services-as-student-primary", "summary": "Explains the England NHS GP registration process and refusal boundary.", "title": "How to register with a GP surgery", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/gps/how-to-register-with-a-gp-surgery/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_post_school_study_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a course, funding, admission or research decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4b65e92368f4456f5d1dc315", "resource_id": "resource:register-with-health-services-as-student:post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-with-health-services-as-student-post-school-study-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish college, university and student-support services.", "title": "Further and higher education in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_post_school_study_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "post-school-study-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a course, funding, admission or research decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d27c698793fbd7aed397bb16", "resource_id": "resource:register-with-health-services-as-student:post-school-study-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-with-health-services-as-student-post-school-study-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh further- and higher-education services and policy.", "title": "Further and higher education in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/education-skills" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_post_school_study_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a course, funding, admission or research decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e8347b93a16489f696832272", "resource_id": "resource:register-with-health-services-as-student:post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/register-with-health-services-as-student-post-school-study-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland higher-education and student-support services.", "title": "Higher education in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education/higher-education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Register with health services as a student", "user_needs": [ "Find the current primary-care registration route without losing urgent or continuity-of-care handoffs." ] }, { "aliases": [ "replace expired passport", "renew UK passport", "passport running out" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "renew-passport-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "renew-passport-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "renew-passport-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "renew-passport-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "renew-passport-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "renew-passport-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "renew-passport-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "renew-passport-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Check passport validity and destination timing, use the current renewal route and retain the application and delivery references.", "domain": { "id": "holidays-volunteering-and-living-overseas", "route": "life-course-domain/holidays-volunteering-and-living-overseas", "title": "Holidays, volunteering and living overseas" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A British passport holder needs a replacement before travel or other identity use.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Check passport validity and destination timing, use the current renewal route and retain the application and delivery references.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/20dbb1717b13b9df62cd35fc", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2addb76b7284055e92514764" }, "route": "service-episode/renew-passport-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b6236a3f6bb4adc87c8e7e91", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/82041ae38a3d0dd02d197227", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/30b6e3027b12c2c15356e077", "resource_route": "resource/renew-passport-renew-passport-primary", "source_id": "renew-passport-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/renew-passport-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "renew-passport-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to renew a passport and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Check passport validity and destination timing, use the current renewal route and retain the application and delivery references." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/123b10d1342c422fcdea8784", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8f26ca66ab39889ae8b237e0", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a8c90fe124cc2cf0669e7d08", "resource_route": "resource/renew-passport-renew-passport-primary", "source_id": "renew-passport-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/renew-passport-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "renew-passport-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/99afdff1c09c94aa63672f37", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6516d933864c157a3d7bc259" }, "route": "service-episode/renew-passport-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8059986b0c0963744706d611", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/94ed94d62eb9fab736e29a2b", "resource_route": "resource/renew-passport-renew-passport-primary", "source_id": "renew-passport-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/renew-passport-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "renew-passport-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "renew-passport", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Renew a passport\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Prepare for international travel** in the **Holidays, volunteering and living overseas** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck passport validity and destination timing, use the current renewal route and retain the application and delivery references.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Renew or replace your adult passport](https://www.gov.uk/renew-adult-passport)\n- [Scotland: Renew or replace your adult passport](https://www.gov.uk/renew-adult-passport)\n- [Wales: Renew or replace your adult passport](https://www.gov.uk/renew-adult-passport)\n- [Northern Ireland: Renew or replace your adult passport](https://www.gov.uk/renew-adult-passport)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Prepare for international travel**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Prepare for international travel", "source": "services/renew-passport.md", "title": "Renew a passport within Prepare for international travel" }, "process": { "id": "prepare-for-international-travel", "route": "enclosing-process/prepare-for-international-travel", "title": "Prepare for international travel" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "buy-travel-insurance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/buy-travel-insurance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Buy travel insurance" }, { "id": "check-entry-requirements", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-entry-requirements", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check entry requirements" }, { "id": "check-foreign-travel-advice", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-foreign-travel-advice", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check foreign travel advice" }, { "id": "declare-goods-at-customs", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/declare-goods-at-customs", "sequenced": false, "title": "Declare goods at customs" }, { "id": "drive-abroad", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/drive-abroad", "sequenced": false, "title": "Drive abroad" }, { "id": "get-travel-vaccination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-travel-vaccination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a travel vaccination" }, { "id": "obtain-ghic-or-ehic", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-ghic-or-ehic", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a GHIC or EHIC" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cc0a6b27eb074af34315beed", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c39cfff4ac4d899d3069a678" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/renew-passport", "situations": [ "A British passport holder needs a replacement before travel or other identity use." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_adult_passport_renewal", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "renew-passport-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not guarantee identity, nationality, processing time, travel acceptance or a child or overseas route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "HM Passport Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b0dd0030fbd4ec6059d6f3e8", "resource_id": "resource:renew-passport:renew-passport-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/renew-passport-renew-passport-primary", "summary": "Routes eligible adult British passport holders through current renewal and replacement steps.", "title": "Renew or replace your adult passport", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/renew-adult-passport" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Renew a passport", "user_needs": [ "Use the correct adult, child, lost, damaged or overseas route without assuming processing time." ] }, { "aliases": [ "private renting", "find a rented home", "tenant rights" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "rent-private-home-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "rent-private-home-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "housing-community-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "housing-community-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "housing-community-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Find a private tenancy route, check the landlord or agent boundary and retain the agreement, inventory and payment records.", "domain": { "id": "housing-and-community", "route": "life-course-domain/housing-and-community", "title": "Housing and community life" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person is considering or starting a tenancy from a private landlord or letting agent.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Find a private tenancy route, check the landlord or agent boundary and retain the agreement, inventory and payment records.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5b753ce2389ebe696e2ba39d", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6a9e25015456fa2f8a14b46a" }, "route": "service-episode/rent-private-home-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5e69774fa11dff6a7374488f", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/26680366d934062c275552eb", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6ebdb781d032752b8913e65b", "resource_route": "resource/rent-private-home-rent-private-home-primary", "source_id": "rent-private-home-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bd804e715ba26522379810c2", "resource_route": "resource/rent-private-home-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/399722cad8f0bf07270cef78", "resource_route": "resource/rent-private-home-housing-community-wales-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/758ce851c06cccf9acf0bcd8", "resource_route": "resource/rent-private-home-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/rent-private-home-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "rent-private-home-primary", "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "housing-community-wales-handoff", "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to rent a private home and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Find a private tenancy route, check the landlord or agent boundary and retain the agreement, inventory and payment records." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c4895328c9f2057ead91d8a7", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7469b17692473ad90bc5a5b9", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/12b690199c1f2ab92567841a", "resource_route": "resource/rent-private-home-rent-private-home-primary", "source_id": "rent-private-home-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/83972fb3c499a94bc4054e32", "resource_route": "resource/rent-private-home-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7625ec883fa2fffe96f5afe0", "resource_route": "resource/rent-private-home-housing-community-wales-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3f5f656d8ec3ea24f6a48e6c", "resource_route": "resource/rent-private-home-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/rent-private-home-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "rent-private-home-primary", "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "housing-community-wales-handoff", "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8bb19f31a7ef44331f1bcdeb", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ebda552f025eb9372ea6c3a0" }, "route": "service-episode/rent-private-home-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/54c8d05a61540d22153669af", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1177f862ee08ec71f5e8fd90", "resource_route": "resource/rent-private-home-rent-private-home-primary", "source_id": "rent-private-home-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/69107f475b5584ba9b64a2d9", "resource_route": "resource/rent-private-home-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d13d3cd5bcadd8f25d551219", "resource_route": "resource/rent-private-home-housing-community-wales-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c3ac7218f2674e8397b48081", "resource_route": "resource/rent-private-home-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/rent-private-home-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "rent-private-home-primary", "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "housing-community-wales-handoff", "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "rent-private-home", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Rent a private home\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Secure and move home** in the **Housing and community life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind a private tenancy route, check the landlord or agent boundary and retain the agreement, inventory and payment records.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Private renting](https://www.gov.uk/private-renting)\n- [Scotland: Housing and local services in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services)\n- [Wales: Housing in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/housing)\n- [Northern Ireland: Property and housing in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/property-and-housing)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Secure and move home**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Secure and move home", "source": "services/rent-private-home.md", "title": "Rent a private home within Secure and move home" }, "process": { "id": "secure-and-move-home", "route": "enclosing-process/secure-and-move-home", "title": "Secure and move home" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-social-housing", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-social-housing", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for social housing" }, { "id": "buy-home", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/buy-home", "sequenced": false, "title": "Buy a home" }, { "id": "get-homelessness-help", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-homelessness-help", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get homelessness help" }, { "id": "move-home", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/move-home", "sequenced": false, "title": "Move home" }, { "id": "protect-tenancy-deposit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/protect-tenancy-deposit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Protect a tenancy deposit" }, { "id": "prove-right-to-rent", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/prove-right-to-rent", "sequenced": false, "title": "Prove the right to rent" }, { "id": "register-for-council-tax", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-for-council-tax", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register for Council Tax" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a03dc34a05bc97596272b778", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c2861b5f2045c53994ba5507" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/rent-private-home", "situations": [ "A person is considering or starting a tenancy from a private landlord or letting agent." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_private_renting_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "rent-private-home-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess affordability, approve a property or interpret an individual tenancy." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dcad6d3ca83d9872c7333d6a", "resource_id": "resource:rent-private-home:rent-private-home-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/rent-private-home-rent-private-home-primary", "summary": "Introduces England private-renting rights, responsibilities and service handoffs.", "title": "Private renting", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/private-renting" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England housing rule or local route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/135f7f7ea01f76c8cf48368e", "resource_id": "resource:rent-private-home:housing-community-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/rent-private-home-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish housing, planning, local-tax and neighbourhood services.", "title": "Housing and local services in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services" }, { "authority_role": "wales_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine a tenancy, planning, homelessness or adaptation decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9633ee5fe0116c9253b05c2c", "resource_id": "resource:rent-private-home:housing-community-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/rent-private-home-housing-community-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh housing policy, support and service information.", "title": "Housing in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/housing" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "England, Scotland and Wales housing rules do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/67bc69d413de00d90ca872ee", "resource_id": "resource:rent-private-home:housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/rent-private-home-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland property, housing and local-service information.", "title": "Property and housing in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/property-and-housing" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Rent a private home", "user_needs": [ "Understand the current tenancy, affordability, safety and complaint handoffs without the bundle recommending a property." ] }, { "aliases": [ "abandoned car report", "vehicle left on street", "council remove abandoned vehicle" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "report-abandoned-vehicle-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "report-abandoned-vehicle-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { 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"service-step/report-abandoned-vehicle-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "report-abandoned-vehicle-primary", "rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "rubbish-street-wales-handoff", "rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "report-abandoned-vehicle", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Report an abandoned vehicle\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Report street and environmental problems** in the **Rubbish, recycling and the street** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nProvide location and observable vehicle information to the responsible council, police or landowner route without approaching the vehicle unsafely.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Report an abandoned vehicle](https://www.gov.uk/report-abandoned-vehicle)\n- [Scotland: Bins and recycling in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services/rubbish-and-recycling)\n- [Wales: Recycling and waste in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/recycling-waste-circular-economy)\n- [Northern Ireland: Rubbish, recycling and waste in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/environment-and-outdoors/waste-and-recycling)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Report street and environmental problems**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Report street and environmental problems", "source": "services/report-abandoned-vehicle.md", "title": "Report an abandoned vehicle within Report street and environmental problems" }, "process": { "id": "report-street-and-environmental-problems", "route": "enclosing-process/report-street-and-environmental-problems", "title": "Report street and environmental problems" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "report-fly-tipping", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-fly-tipping", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report fly-tipping" }, { "id": "report-litter-or-dog-fouling", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-litter-or-dog-fouling", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report litter or dog fouling" }, { "id": "report-street-cleaning-failure", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-street-cleaning-failure", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a street-cleaning failure" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/831ae35ea9ebaf288c51e201", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/22119448555faf48d2696f8d" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/report-abandoned-vehicle", "situations": [ "A vehicle appears abandoned on a road, public place or other land." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_abandoned_vehicle_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "report-abandoned-vehicle-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not declare abandonment, authorise removal or replace police emergency reporting." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/57465b52b20de2fde0cf1328", "resource_id": "resource:report-abandoned-vehicle:report-abandoned-vehicle-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-abandoned-vehicle-report-abandoned-vehicle-primary", "summary": "Routes users in England and Wales to the council abandoned-vehicle report service.", "title": "Report an abandoned vehicle", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/report-abandoned-vehicle" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_waste_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ 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"limitations": [ "Does not establish a local collection, report or disposal route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9ac3f5111e83381a88f6a9d0", "resource_id": "resource:report-abandoned-vehicle:rubbish-street-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-abandoned-vehicle-rubbish-street-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh waste policy, local services and environmental guidance.", "title": "Recycling and waste in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/recycling-waste-circular-economy" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_waste_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain 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"resource_route": "resource/report-adult-safeguarding-concern-report-adult-safeguarding-concern-primary", "source_id": "report-adult-safeguarding-concern-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5565f5466eacc897d7c67ee6", "resource_route": "resource/report-adult-safeguarding-concern-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d2e46808c6ac0bfb70c31101", "resource_route": "resource/report-adult-safeguarding-concern-disability-care-wales-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9c1d2a3d652a31b1ef1b1c93", "resource_route": "resource/report-adult-safeguarding-concern-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The 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"The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/41e123c14416f65c756030a3", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b32bd993bdc9987907a48436", "resource_route": "resource/report-adult-safeguarding-concern-report-adult-safeguarding-concern-primary", "source_id": "report-adult-safeguarding-concern-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/12feb92478af1107dfccdbd9", "resource_route": "resource/report-adult-safeguarding-concern-disability-care-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bb4e4d51f807f0b549e6e493", "resource_route": "resource/report-adult-safeguarding-concern-disability-care-wales-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/62022652300ddc6e0b989990", "resource_route": "resource/report-adult-safeguarding-concern-disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/report-adult-safeguarding-concern-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "report-adult-safeguarding-concern-primary", "disability-care-scotland-handoff", "disability-care-wales-handoff", "disability-care-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "report-adult-safeguarding-concern", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Report an adult safeguarding concern\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress** in the **Disability, care and support** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nContact emergency services for immediate danger and the responsible local safeguarding route for suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Abuse and neglect of adults at risk](https://www.nhs.uk/social-care-and-support/help-from-social-services-and-charities/abuse-and-neglect-adults-at-risk/)\n- [Scotland: Health and social care in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/health-social-care)\n- [Wales: Social care in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/social-care)\n- [Northern Ireland: Caring for someone in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/caring-someone)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress", "source": "services/report-adult-safeguarding-concern.md", "title": "Report an adult safeguarding concern within Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress" }, "process": { "id": "safeguard-capacity-mobility-and-care-redress", "route": "enclosing-process/safeguard-capacity-mobility-and-care-redress", "title": "Safeguard capacity, mobility and care redress" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-mobility-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-mobility-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access mobility support" }, { "id": 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cf2bd90f61f9d6add26bba18", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7a19ceb9d181a25426611b5f" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/report-adult-safeguarding-concern", "situations": [ "An adult with care and support needs may be experiencing or at risk of abuse or neglect." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_adult_safeguarding_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "report-adult-safeguarding-concern-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess risk, investigate, decide protective action or establish devolved procedures." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bb12e881303a7e178b8124ab", "resource_id": 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"Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Report antisocial behaviour\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Report emergencies, crime and harm** in the **Police and legal services** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nRecord the location, pattern and immediate safety boundary and report to the responsible council, police, landlord or other local service.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Report antisocial behaviour](https://www.gov.uk/how-report-antisocial-behaviour)\n- [Scotland: Crime, justice and the law in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/crime-justice-law)\n- [Wales: Report antisocial behaviour](https://www.gov.uk/how-report-antisocial-behaviour)\n- [Northern Ireland: Crime, justice and the law in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/crime-justice-and-law)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Report emergencies, crime and harm**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Report emergencies, crime and harm", "source": "services/report-antisocial-behaviour.md", "title": "Report antisocial behaviour within Report emergencies, crime and harm" }, "process": { "id": "report-emergencies-crime-and-harm", "route": "enclosing-process/report-emergencies-crime-and-harm", "title": "Report emergencies, crime and harm" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "call-emergency-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/call-emergency-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Call emergency services" }, { "id": "get-victim-or-witness-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": 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the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1058efa094df19e1236de6cb", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7b8fe8fc1a75c9d978a5b868", "resource_route": "resource/report-benefit-change-of-circumstances-report-benefit-change-of-circumstances-primary", "source_id": "report-benefit-change-of-circumstances-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/report-benefit-change-of-circumstances-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "report-benefit-change-of-circumstances-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "report-benefit-change-of-circumstances", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Report a benefit change of circumstances\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Claim support and resolve debt** in the **Money, tax and benefits** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify each affected benefit and report the change through its accountable service, retaining confirmation.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Benefits, report a change in circumstances](https://www.gov.uk/report-benefits-change-circumstances)\n- [Scotland: Benefits, report a change in circumstances](https://www.gov.uk/report-benefits-change-circumstances)\n- [Wales: Benefits, report a change in circumstances](https://www.gov.uk/report-benefits-change-circumstances)\n- [Northern Ireland: Benefits, report a change in circumstances](https://www.gov.uk/report-benefits-change-circumstances)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Claim support and resolve debt**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Claim support and resolve debt", "source": "services/report-benefit-change-of-circumstances.md", "title": "Report a benefit change of circumstances within Claim support and resolve debt" }, "process": { "id": "claim-support-and-resolve-debt", "route": "enclosing-process/claim-support-and-resolve-debt", "title": "Claim support and resolve debt" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-disability-benefit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-disability-benefit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim a disability benefit" }, { "id": "claim-universal-credit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": 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"early-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1286302866145a1c20d48ec0", "resource_route": "resource/report-child-safeguarding-concern-early-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/253ad68017f93dd53235be84", "resource_route": "resource/report-child-safeguarding-concern-early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/report-child-safeguarding-concern-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "report-child-safeguarding-concern-primary", "early-years-scotland-handoff", "early-years-wales-handoff", "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "report-child-safeguarding-concern", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Report a child safeguarding concern\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Support early development and safety** in the **Early years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind the immediate emergency or responsible local-authority route for a concern about a child's safety or welfare.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Report child abuse to a local council](https://www.gov.uk/report-child-abuse-to-local-council)\n- [Scotland: Help with childcare costs in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/childcare-costs-help)\n- [Wales: Childcare in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/childcare)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Support early development and safety**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Support early development and safety", "source": "services/report-child-safeguarding-concern.md", "title": "Report a child safeguarding concern within Support early development and safety" }, "process": { "id": "support-early-development-and-safety", "route": "enclosing-process/support-early-development-and-safety", "title": "Support early development and safety" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-health-visiting", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-health-visiting", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access health visiting" }, { "id": "apply-for-adoption-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-adoption-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for adoption support" }, { "id": "get-early-years-development-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-early-years-development-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get early-years development support" }, { "id": "get-early-years-send-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-early-years-send-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get early-years SEND support" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/807ae2715d1e95e16b2e4483", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/55a2c19eda7caae635b656e1" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/report-child-safeguarding-concern", "situations": [ "Someone is worried that a child may be at risk of abuse, neglect or other harm." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_child_safeguarding_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "report-child-safeguarding-concern-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess immediate danger, investigate, decide evidence or establish another nation's safeguarding route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e4a73eedbe857aa5fae8bf1b", "resource_id": "resource:report-child-safeguarding-concern:report-child-safeguarding-concern-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-child-safeguarding-concern-report-child-safeguarding-concern-primary", "summary": "Routes an England safeguarding concern to the responsible local council and signposts emergency action.", "title": "Report child abuse to a local council", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/report-child-abuse-to-local-council" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_childcare_support_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove a separate development, health, safeguarding, library or registration rule." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4ca48233fea161b0946fcf40", "resource_id": "resource:report-child-safeguarding-concern:early-years-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-child-safeguarding-concern-early-years-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes families in Scotland to current funded childcare and childcare-cost support.", "title": "Help with childcare costs in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/childcare-costs-help" }, { "authority_role": "wales_childcare_and_early_years_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d382c4458f21e41878cf72d2", "resource_id": "resource:report-child-safeguarding-concern:early-years-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-child-safeguarding-concern-early-years-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes families and providers in Wales to current childcare and early-years information.", "title": "Childcare in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/childcare" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_early_years_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6278b2feeacfa4d71a33d7dd", "resource_id": "resource:report-child-safeguarding-concern:early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-child-safeguarding-concern-early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Northern Ireland to current education, childcare and early-years services.", "title": "Education in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Report a child safeguarding concern", "user_needs": [ "Reach the current emergency or safeguarding authority without the bundle assessing risk or evidence." ] }, { "aliases": [ "tell police about crime", "non emergency police report", "report offence online" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "report-crime-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "report-crime-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": 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"domain": { "id": "police-and-legal-services", "route": "life-course-domain/police-and-legal-services", "title": "Police and legal services" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person has experienced", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Preserve immediate safety and available evidence and report through the responsible police force's emergency or non-emergency route.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0a6ed092066d9b7c2af39367", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/52c15694ea7845d2e1e5475f" }, "route": "service-episode/report-crime-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6bc4fcee1a95d5f26b5e7bf5", "resource_route": "resource/report-crime-report-crime-primary", "source_id": "report-crime-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f5c96373963838af0c866ac1", "resource_route": "resource/report-crime-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ede085fa873ca58b49f7b211", "resource_route": "resource/report-crime-police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/report-crime-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ 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or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2d546fc718d279df6897b6a3", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7e35044f7a39497f7baee2b3" }, "route": "service-episode/report-crime-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/633b709fa0a4e721ef17014b", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b55fd1f16a2d60dd8daba23d", "resource_route": "resource/report-crime-report-crime-primary", "source_id": "report-crime-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a51356d23c124996f6a0d6e6", "resource_route": "resource/report-crime-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/973f4e2f25a1bba82d15b30a", "resource_route": "resource/report-crime-police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/report-crime-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "report-crime-primary", "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "report-crime", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Report a crime\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Report emergencies, crime and harm** in the **Police and legal services** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nPreserve immediate safety and available evidence and report through the responsible police force's emergency or non-emergency route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Contact the police](https://www.gov.uk/contact-police)\n- [Scotland: Crime, justice and the law in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/crime-justice-law)\n- [Wales: Contact the police](https://www.gov.uk/contact-police)\n- [Northern Ireland: Crime, justice and the law in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/crime-justice-and-law)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Report emergencies, crime and harm**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Report emergencies, crime and harm", "source": "services/report-crime.md", "title": "Report a crime within Report emergencies, crime and harm" }, "process": { "id": "report-emergencies-crime-and-harm", "route": "enclosing-process/report-emergencies-crime-and-harm", "title": "Report emergencies, crime and harm" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "call-emergency-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/call-emergency-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Call emergency services" }, { "id": "get-victim-or-witness-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-victim-or-witness-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get victim or witness support" }, { "id": "report-antisocial-behaviour", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-antisocial-behaviour", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report antisocial behaviour" }, { "id": "report-fraud", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-fraud", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report fraud" }, { "id": "report-hate-crime", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-hate-crime", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report hate crime" }, { "id": "report-missing-person", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-missing-person", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a missing person" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f26fc3cd10a51cd79bc88e69", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d0d4223133517491f156495f" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/report-crime", "situations": [ "A person has experienced, witnessed or has information about a possible crime." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_police_reporting_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "report-crime-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide whether a crime occurred, investigate, protect evidence or guarantee police action." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Home Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/09d829540fbd6f2a30e14e3f", "resource_id": "resource:report-crime:report-crime-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-crime-report-crime-primary", "summary": "Routes users to emergency, non-emergency and local police contact information.", "title": "Contact the police", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/contact-police" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_police_legal_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not provide emergency response, legal advice or an individual court or appeal route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cf106cac8875e0c0807a391d", "resource_id": "resource:report-crime:police-legal-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-crime-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish police, victim support, legal aid, courts and tribunal information.", "title": "Crime, justice and the 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"source_ids": [ "rubbish-street-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "rubbish-street-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "rubbish-street-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Record the location safely and report dumped waste to the responsible authority while leaving hazardous or criminal investigation to officials.", 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/468f73f9f05942f58ffaa2f1", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cf3ffe4381d6120c79530906", "resource_route": "resource/report-fly-tipping-report-fly-tipping-primary", "source_id": "report-fly-tipping-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3f5cdccbf2faf53f57509f96", "resource_route": "resource/report-fly-tipping-rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "rubbish-street-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4cc20b4984581c2ef7351f46", "resource_route": "resource/report-fly-tipping-rubbish-street-wales-handoff", "source_id": "rubbish-street-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/631c3189b406fe0f62399d63", "resource_route": "resource/report-fly-tipping-rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": 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"relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d901a7f58ae25b8eb00fd914", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5ecafd820509fd2a6096232e" }, "route": "service-episode/report-fly-tipping-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e51940c497ef44e07e65fbda", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1180e28b1b163cac7f393db7", "resource_route": "resource/report-fly-tipping-report-fly-tipping-primary", "source_id": "report-fly-tipping-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f1d1e339bbcf1ee93b4e84c3", "resource_route": "resource/report-fly-tipping-rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "rubbish-street-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": 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deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "report-fly-tipping", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Report fly-tipping\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Report street and environmental problems** in the **Rubbish, recycling and the street** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nRecord the location safely and report dumped waste to the responsible authority while leaving hazardous or criminal investigation to officials.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Report fly-tipping](https://www.gov.uk/report-flytipping)\n- [Scotland: Bins and recycling in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services/rubbish-and-recycling)\n- [Wales: Recycling and waste in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/recycling-waste-circular-economy)\n- [Northern Ireland: Rubbish, recycling and waste in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/environment-and-outdoors/waste-and-recycling)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Report street and environmental problems**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Report street and environmental problems", "source": "services/report-fly-tipping.md", "title": "Report fly-tipping within Report street and environmental problems" }, "process": { "id": "report-street-and-environmental-problems", "route": "enclosing-process/report-street-and-environmental-problems", "title": "Report street and environmental problems" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "report-abandoned-vehicle", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-abandoned-vehicle", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report an abandoned vehicle" }, { "id": "report-litter-or-dog-fouling", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-litter-or-dog-fouling", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report litter or dog fouling" }, { "id": "report-street-cleaning-failure", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-street-cleaning-failure", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a street-cleaning failure" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b5fc79762ac7bb073ebcd436", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ea75ad2e7fd992505ba59c9c" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/report-fly-tipping", "situations": [ "Waste appears to have been deposited unlawfully on land or beside the highway." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_fly_tipping_report_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "report-fly-tipping-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not investigate, identify an offender, remove waste or replace an emergency hazardous-material route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7d9eb4c65ad9f3194b02166a", "resource_id": "resource:report-fly-tipping:report-fly-tipping-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-fly-tipping-report-fly-tipping-primary", "summary": "Routes England and Wales users to the appropriate council fly-tipping report.", "title": "Report fly-tipping", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/report-flytipping" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_waste_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine collection arrangements, accepted materials, charges or enforcement." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b3dbaf6b750aa69ff98a5c25", "resource_id": "resource:report-fly-tipping:rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-fly-tipping-rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish household-waste and local-council services.", "title": "Bins and recycling in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services/rubbish-and-recycling" }, { "authority_role": "wales_waste_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "rubbish-street-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not 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{ "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Secure accounts or payments where possible and use the current police or national fraud-reporting route for the jurisdiction.", "domain": { "id": "police-and-legal-services", "route": "life-course-domain/police-and-legal-services", "title": "Police and legal services" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person or organisation suspects a deception or other fraud offence.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Secure accounts or payments where possible and use the current police or national fraud-reporting route for the jurisdiction.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/096988e440acfcec0830d9e5", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b116edc33278583f033c2484" }, "route": "service-episode/report-fraud-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d44cb67520c03db0fdb345b1", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/649371fa656e4165ad39039e", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/48c6179fb20b2b037be82f20", "resource_route": "resource/report-fraud-report-fraud-primary", "source_id": "report-fraud-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/115f3c09831b0e4a8cfec5dd", "resource_route": "resource/report-fraud-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0e5d7e845b21f44980f71317", "resource_route": "resource/report-fraud-police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/report-fraud-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "report-fraud-primary", "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to report fraud and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Secure accounts or payments where possible and use the current police or national fraud-reporting route for the jurisdiction." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c10518b943df5ace321d50a7", "follows_previous": 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"service-step/report-fraud-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "report-fraud-primary", "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6edc18a4cd1f947971ca0fdb", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/71f0ea412fa1c87b65a5d753" }, "route": "service-episode/report-fraud-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0a8697b8ed74836caad34948", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/be405724deaa25f5d40d77ec", "resource_route": "resource/report-fraud-report-fraud-primary", "source_id": "report-fraud-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5ee655400c68e5abcdb7642f", "resource_route": "resource/report-fraud-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/19d92dc449b86f41b3b1652c", "resource_route": "resource/report-fraud-police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/report-fraud-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "report-fraud-primary", "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "report-fraud", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Report fraud\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Report emergencies, crime and harm** in the **Police and legal services** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSecure accounts or payments where possible and use the current police or national fraud-reporting route for the jurisdiction.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Contact the police about fraud](https://www.gov.uk/contact-police)\n- [Scotland: Crime, justice and the law in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/crime-justice-law)\n- [Wales: Contact the police about fraud](https://www.gov.uk/contact-police)\n- [Northern Ireland: Crime, justice and the law in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/crime-justice-and-law)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Report emergencies, crime and harm**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Report emergencies, crime and harm", "source": "services/report-fraud.md", "title": "Report fraud within Report emergencies, crime and harm" }, "process": { "id": "report-emergencies-crime-and-harm", "route": "enclosing-process/report-emergencies-crime-and-harm", "title": "Report emergencies, crime and harm" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "call-emergency-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/call-emergency-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Call emergency services" }, { "id": "get-victim-or-witness-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-victim-or-witness-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get victim or witness support" }, { "id": "report-antisocial-behaviour", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-antisocial-behaviour", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report antisocial behaviour" }, { "id": "report-crime", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-crime", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a crime" }, { "id": "report-hate-crime", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-hate-crime", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report hate crime" }, { "id": "report-missing-person", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-missing-person", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a missing person" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4cddbbb37f3bc230825fd00d", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9eec2e21b01b8328762bb249" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/report-fraud", "situations": [ "A person or organisation suspects a deception or other fraud offence." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_northern_ireland_fraud_reporting_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "report-fraud-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not investigate, recover funds, secure accounts or replace an emergency call." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Home Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/50aab502541729ff88c07d0b", "resource_id": "resource:report-fraud:report-fraud-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-fraud-report-fraud-primary", "summary": "Routes users to current emergency, non-emergency and local police contacts from which the applicable fraud-reporting handoff can be confirmed.", "title": "Contact the police about fraud", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/contact-police" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_police_legal_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not provide emergency response, legal advice or an individual court or appeal route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f9e4271a266c543df4f2be33", "resource_id": "resource:report-fraud:police-legal-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-fraud-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish police, victim 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remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Report hate crime\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Report emergencies, crime and harm** in the **Police and legal services** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nAddress immediate safety and report perceived hostility through police, third-party or support routes without requiring the victim to classify the law.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Report hate crime](https://www.gov.uk/report-hate-crime)\n- [Scotland: Crime, justice and the law in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/crime-justice-law)\n- [Wales: Report hate crime](https://www.gov.uk/report-hate-crime)\n- [Northern Ireland: Crime, justice and the law in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/crime-justice-and-law)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Report emergencies, crime and harm**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Report emergencies, crime and harm", "source": "services/report-hate-crime.md", "title": "Report hate crime within Report emergencies, crime and harm" }, "process": { "id": "report-emergencies-crime-and-harm", "route": "enclosing-process/report-emergencies-crime-and-harm", "title": "Report emergencies, crime and harm" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "call-emergency-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/call-emergency-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Call emergency services" }, { "id": "get-victim-or-witness-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": 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"resource/report-litter-or-dog-fouling-report-litter-or-dog-fouling-primary", "source_id": "report-litter-or-dog-fouling-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5ffab02dd7b68e8baf049b43", "resource_route": "resource/report-litter-or-dog-fouling-rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "rubbish-street-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/de427dbd52d2683c2ee060d0", "resource_route": "resource/report-litter-or-dog-fouling-rubbish-street-wales-handoff", "source_id": "rubbish-street-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3bdd51b8f78ecbb0a0faf05d", "resource_route": "resource/report-litter-or-dog-fouling-rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/report-litter-or-dog-fouling-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "report-litter-or-dog-fouling-primary", "rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "rubbish-street-wales-handoff", "rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "report-litter-or-dog-fouling", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Report litter or dog fouling\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Report street and environmental problems** in the **Rubbish, recycling and the street** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nGive the responsible local service a location and current condition so it can decide cleaning or enforcement action.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Report a litter problem](https://www.gov.uk/report-litter)\n- [Scotland: Bins and recycling in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services/rubbish-and-recycling)\n- [Wales: Recycling and waste in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/recycling-waste-circular-economy)\n- [Northern Ireland: Rubbish, recycling and waste in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/environment-and-outdoors/waste-and-recycling)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Report street and environmental problems**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Report street and environmental problems", "source": "services/report-litter-or-dog-fouling.md", "title": "Report litter or dog fouling within Report street and environmental problems" }, "process": { "id": "report-street-and-environmental-problems", "route": "enclosing-process/report-street-and-environmental-problems", "title": "Report street and environmental problems" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "report-abandoned-vehicle", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-abandoned-vehicle", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report an abandoned vehicle" }, { "id": "report-fly-tipping", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-fly-tipping", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report fly-tipping" }, { "id": "report-street-cleaning-failure", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-street-cleaning-failure", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a street-cleaning failure" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/46a5b75e0ba1364559c9f703", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/311bc12505262b9ae71018c2" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/report-litter-or-dog-fouling", "situations": [ "Litter, an overflowing public bin or dog fouling affects a public place." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_litter_report_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "report-litter-or-dog-fouling-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish an offence, identify a person, issue a penalty or guarantee cleansing time." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/15c54683eca4305bcdaf8ed5", "resource_id": "resource:report-litter-or-dog-fouling:report-litter-or-dog-fouling-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-litter-or-dog-fouling-report-litter-or-dog-fouling-primary", "summary": "Routes users in England and Wales to the council responsible for litter reports.", "title": "Report a litter problem", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/report-litter" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_waste_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine collection arrangements, accepted materials, charges or enforcement." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ceb646bcf9c7b7c74fd11fe6", "resource_id": "resource:report-litter-or-dog-fouling:rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-litter-or-dog-fouling-rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish household-waste and local-council services.", "title": "Bins and recycling in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services/rubbish-and-recycling" }, { "authority_role": "wales_waste_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "rubbish-street-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": 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"jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain waste routes do not establish Northern Ireland collection or disposal procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/86176c1ae58a8246d91113c5", "resource_id": "resource:report-litter-or-dog-fouling:rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-litter-or-dog-fouling-rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland household and council waste services.", "title": "Rubbish, recycling and waste in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/environment-and-outdoors/waste-and-recycling" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Report litter or dog fouling", "user_needs": [ "Distinguish 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"assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/935de9d9c1441824fe1f3dac", "resource_route": "resource/report-missed-rubbish-collection-edinburgh-complaints", "source_id": "edinburgh-complaints" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cf124e03953b652c5086c3b9", "resource_route": "resource/report-missed-rubbish-collection-cardiff-complaints", "source_id": "cardiff-complaints" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/39c86b8b510fcba3415bfca3", "resource_route": "resource/report-missed-rubbish-collection-belfast-complaints", "source_id": "belfast-complaints" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/807b64bf353dcabd62e12769", "resource_route": "resource/report-missed-rubbish-collection-lgsco-waste-and-refuse", "source_id": "lgsco-waste-and-refuse" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c608055f7832e9b7c7a25527", "resource_route": "resource/report-missed-rubbish-collection-spso-making-a-complaint", "source_id": "spso-making-a-complaint" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f90da5957ed6b316c39f7a56", "resource_route": "resource/report-missed-rubbish-collection-psow-how-to-complain", "source_id": "psow-how-to-complain" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6ee54647a912ceef98f511eb", "resource_route": "resource/report-missed-rubbish-collection-nipso-complaints", "source_id": "nipso-complaints" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Final local response or evidence of the applicable exhaustion boundary." }, "route": "service-step/report-missed-rubbish-collection-wrong-authority-excluded-or-unresolved-correct-or-escalate", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Each ombudsman's current scope and time rules control." }, "source_ids": [ "coventry-complaints", "edinburgh-complaints", "cardiff-complaints", "belfast-complaints", "lgsco-waste-and-refuse", "spso-making-a-complaint", "psow-how-to-complain", "nipso-complaints" ], "time": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current council and ombudsman limits apply." } } ], "title": "Wrong authority excluded or unresolved" } ], "id": "report-missed-rubbish-collection", "interaction_boundary": "Navigation and evidence handoff only. The record does not decide whether a local report will be accepted or promise a return collection.", "limitations": [ "Local rules are evidenced by four structural examples, not copied across every council.", "Live operational notices and acceptance rules must be checked before use." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Report a missed rubbish collection\n\nThis normalized family groups local routes for reporting a scheduled household\nwaste or recycling collection that was not completed. It does not assert a\nsingle UK provider, deadline, acceptance rule, remedy or complaint body.\n\nThe implemented examples are\n[Coventry](generated/browser/services/coventry-missed-bin-collection.html),\n[Edinburgh](generated/browser/services/edinburgh-missed-bin-collection.html),\n[Cardiff](generated/browser/services/cardiff-missed-collection.html) and\n[Belfast](generated/browser/services/belfast-missed-bin-collection.html). Their locally official rules stay\non those records. The [ontology module](generated/browser/ontology/missed-rubbish-collection.html)\nand [synthetic journey](generated/browser/journeys/missed-rubbish-collection.html) describe the\nshared editorial model.\n\n## Normalized interaction boundary\n\n1. Identify the council responsible for the address.\n2. Check the scheduled collection, local presentation conditions and any\n disruption notice.\n3. Use the locally evidenced channel and timing rule only when its conditions\n are met.\n4. Preserve the report outcome or rejection reason.\n5. If the service problem remains unresolved, use the council complaint route\n before any jurisdiction-appropriate external body.\n\nA delivery contractor can be a required operational dependency without\nbecoming the accountable authority. The England redress evidence expressly\nstates that councils remain accountable for contractor-delivered waste\nservices; no equivalent contractor claim is inferred for the other examples.", "process_context": "Manage household waste collections", "source": "services/report-missed-rubbish-collection.md", "title": "Report a missed rubbish collection within Manage household waste collections" }, "process": { "id": "manage-household-waste-collections", "route": "enclosing-process/manage-household-waste-collections", "title": "Manage household waste collections" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-bulky-waste-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-bulky-waste-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange bulky waste collection" }, { "id": "arrange-clinical-waste-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-clinical-waste-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange clinical waste collection" }, { "id": "arrange-garden-waste-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-garden-waste-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange garden waste collection" }, { "id": "dispose-of-hazardous-waste", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/dispose-of-hazardous-waste", "sequenced": false, "title": "Dispose of hazardous waste" }, { "id": "order-replacement-waste-container", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/order-replacement-waste-container", "sequenced": false, "title": "Order a replacement waste container" }, { "id": "use-household-recycling-service", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-household-recycling-service", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a household recycling service" }, { "id": "view-waste-collection-schedule", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/view-waste-collection-schedule", "sequenced": false, "title": "View the waste collection schedule" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/48db6b4bb2eafc589d622da6", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/efe28552e9489d65c7cde9cb" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "not_required" }, "route": "dataset/report-missed-rubbish-collection", "situations": [ "A scheduled household waste or recycling collection did not happen.", "A resident needs to distinguish a reportable miss from a disruption or presentation problem." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "national_routing_page", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "govuk-missed-bin-collection", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "not evidence of one uniform UK or four-nation process; page wording about Wales requires caution" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Government Digital Service", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a433bf3222bc9d87710a995c", "resource_id": "resource:report-missed-rubbish-collection:govuk-missed-bin-collection", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-missed-rubbish-collection-govuk-missed-bin-collection", "summary": "postcode route presented for England and Wales", "title": "Postcode route presented for England and Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/missed-bin-collection" }, { "authority_role": "responsible_local_service_page", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "coventry-missed-bin", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "not evidence for another council or nation" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Coventry City Council", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e0fa36b692417876b4b5536f", "resource_id": "resource:report-missed-rubbish-collection:coventry-missed-bin", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-missed-rubbish-collection-coventry-missed-bin", "summary": "selected England example in the Coventry City Council area", "title": "Selected England example in the Coventry City Council area", "url": "https://www.coventry.gov.uk/missedbin" }, { "authority_role": "responsible_local_complaint_page", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "coventry-complaints", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "not an ombudsman route and not evidence for another authority" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Coventry City Council", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0fb014708687c78c8878a21d", "resource_id": "resource:report-missed-rubbish-collection:coventry-complaints", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-missed-rubbish-collection-coventry-complaints", "summary": "selected England council complaint route", "title": "Selected England council complaint route", "url": "https://www.coventry.gov.uk/contact-council/comments-compliments-complaints/2" }, { "authority_role": "responsible_local_service_page", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "edinburgh-missed-bin", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "operational notices can change; not evidence for another Scottish council" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "The City of Edinburgh Council", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1f48915fec0da83215f44140", "resource_id": "resource:report-missed-rubbish-collection:edinburgh-missed-bin", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-missed-rubbish-collection-edinburgh-missed-bin", "summary": "selected Scotland example in the City of Edinburgh Council area", "title": "Selected Scotland example in the City of Edinburgh Council area", "url": "https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/bin-collection-days/delays-rubbish-recycling-collections" }, { "authority_role": "responsible_local_complaint_page", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "edinburgh-complaints", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "not the external SPSO route" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "The City of Edinburgh Council", "position": 4, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c10bc2a05621c8f14634f85d", "resource_id": "resource:report-missed-rubbish-collection:edinburgh-complaints", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-missed-rubbish-collection-edinburgh-complaints", "summary": "selected Scotland council complaint route", "title": "Selected Scotland council complaint route", "url": "https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/complaints" }, { "authority_role": "responsible_local_service_page", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "cardiff-missed-collection", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "not evidence for another Welsh council" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Cardiff Council", "position": 5, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8140d5fb659ec9dae3bc6507", "resource_id": "resource:report-missed-rubbish-collection:cardiff-missed-collection", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-missed-rubbish-collection-cardiff-missed-collection", "summary": "selected Wales example in the Cardiff Council area", "title": "Selected Wales example in the Cardiff Council area", "url": "https://www.cardiff.gov.uk/aboutmissedcollections" }, { "authority_role": "responsible_local_complaint_page", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "cardiff-complaints", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "initial service requests must use the service route; not evidence for another authority" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Cardiff Council", "position": 6, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c4fd19f6bbec98a80bd8d308", "resource_id": "resource:report-missed-rubbish-collection:cardiff-complaints", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-missed-rubbish-collection-cardiff-complaints", "summary": "selected Wales council complaint route", "title": "Selected Wales council complaint route", "url": "https://www.cardiff.gov.uk/makeacomplaint" }, { "authority_role": "responsible_local_service_page", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "belfast-missed-bin", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "not evidence for another Northern Ireland council" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Belfast City Council", "position": 7, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e112e3bbc1d951bd1a4b87e9", "resource_id": "resource:report-missed-rubbish-collection:belfast-missed-bin", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-missed-rubbish-collection-belfast-missed-bin", "summary": "selected Northern Ireland example in the Belfast City Council area", "title": "Selected Northern Ireland example in the Belfast City Council area", "url": "https://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/bins-recycling-environment/bins-boxes-collections/report-request-order-bin-box/missed-bin-collection" }, { "authority_role": "responsible_local_complaint_page", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "belfast-complaints", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "not the external NIPSO route" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Belfast City Council", "position": 8, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9e8336f9424d8a72879fc0c3", "resource_id": "resource:report-missed-rubbish-collection:belfast-complaints", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-missed-rubbish-collection-belfast-complaints", "summary": "selected Northern Ireland council complaint route", "title": "Selected Northern Ireland council complaint route", "url": "https://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/Contact-us/Main-Council-Offices/Complaints-Comments-and-Compliments/Complaints-Handling-Procedure" }, { "authority_role": "external_redress_guidance_england", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "lgsco-waste-and-refuse", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "not applicable to Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman", "position": 9, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/58d64306fef7878b4c1cc472", "resource_id": "resource:report-missed-rubbish-collection:lgsco-waste-and-refuse", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-missed-rubbish-collection-lgsco-waste-and-refuse", "summary": "England local-government waste and refuse complaints", "title": "England local-government waste and refuse complaints", "url": "https://www.lgo.org.uk/make-a-complaint/fact-sheets/environment-and-waste/waste-and-refuse" }, { "authority_role": "external_redress_guidance_scotland", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "spso-making-a-complaint", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "acceptance and investigation remain case-specific" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Scottish Public Services Ombudsman", "position": 10, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fbd53c73fac122b25e5d43d0", "resource_id": "resource:report-missed-rubbish-collection:spso-making-a-complaint", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-missed-rubbish-collection-spso-making-a-complaint", "summary": "complaints about public services in Scotland", "title": "Complaints about public services in Scotland", "url": "https://www.spso.org.uk/making-complaint" }, { "authority_role": "external_redress_guidance_wales", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "psow-how-to-complain", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "complainant must first use the organisation route and jurisdiction remains case-specific" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Public Services Ombudsman for Wales", "position": 11, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dbb697b16e9944e93d5ad37e", "resource_id": "resource:report-missed-rubbish-collection:psow-how-to-complain", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", 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summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Report a missing person\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Report emergencies, crime and harm** in the **Police and legal services** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nContact police promptly with the available identity, last-seen, vulnerability and contact information and preserve urgent safeguarding details.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Report or find a missing person](https://www.gov.uk/report-missing-person)\n- [Scotland: Crime, justice and the law in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/crime-justice-law)\n- [Wales: Report or find a missing person](https://www.gov.uk/report-missing-person)\n- [Northern Ireland: Crime, justice and the law in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/crime-justice-and-law)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Report emergencies, crime and harm**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Report emergencies, crime and harm", "source": "services/report-missing-person.md", "title": "Report a missing person within Report emergencies, crime and harm" }, "process": { "id": "report-emergencies-crime-and-harm", "route": "enclosing-process/report-emergencies-crime-and-harm", "title": "Report emergencies, crime and harm" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "call-emergency-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/call-emergency-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Call emergency services" }, { "id": "get-victim-or-witness-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": 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"housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/report-noise-or-pest-nuisance-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "report-noise-or-pest-nuisance-primary", "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "housing-community-wales-handoff", "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "report-noise-or-pest-nuisance", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Report a noise or pest nuisance\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Adapt, develop and protect home and neighbourhood** in the **Housing and community life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nRecord the effect and report the problem to the responsible property, environmental-health or other authority route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Report a noise nuisance to your council](https://www.gov.uk/report-noise-pollution-to-council)\n- [Scotland: Housing and local services in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services)\n- [Wales: Housing in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/housing)\n- [Northern Ireland: Property and housing in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/property-and-housing)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Adapt, develop and protect home and neighbourhood**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Adapt, develop and protect home and neighbourhood", "source": "services/report-noise-or-pest-nuisance.md", "title": "Report a noise or pest nuisance within Adapt, develop and protect home and neighbourhood" }, "process": { "id": "adapt-develop-and-protect-home-and-neighbourhood", "route": "enclosing-process/adapt-develop-and-protect-home-and-neighbourhood", "title": "Adapt, develop and protect home and neighbourhood" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-home-adaptation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-home-adaptation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for a home adaptation" }, { "id": "meet-building-regulations", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/meet-building-regulations", "sequenced": false, "title": "Meet building regulations" }, { "id": "seek-planning-permission", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/seek-planning-permission", "sequenced": false, "title": "Seek planning permission" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9479f3f58941986015f74f2e", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/de388f453e6bfabfe9208f66" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/report-noise-or-pest-nuisance", "situations": [ "Noise, pests or another neighbourhood condition may be causing persistent interference or health concern." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_local_noise_report_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "report-noise-or-pest-nuisance-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess evidence, declare nuisance, arrange pest control or decide enforcement." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f2c9ce2cd2cd69a828853a0c", "resource_id": "resource:report-noise-or-pest-nuisance:report-noise-or-pest-nuisance-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-noise-or-pest-nuisance-report-noise-or-pest-nuisance-primary", "summary": "Routes England and Wales users to the council noise-report service.", "title": "Report a noise nuisance to your council", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/report-noise-pollution-to-council" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England housing rule or local route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/61f4d69cd2c3e5fe68c2d09b", "resource_id": "resource:report-noise-or-pest-nuisance:housing-community-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-noise-or-pest-nuisance-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish housing, planning, local-tax and neighbourhood services.", "title": "Housing and local services in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services" }, { "authority_role": "wales_housing_discovery_handoff", 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"Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Report a product safety issue\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Report harm and use consumer redress** in the **Shopping and consumer rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nStop unsafe use where necessary, preserve product and incident details and report to the seller and designated safety authority route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Product safety for consumers](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/consumer-products-reporting-product-safety-issues)\n- [Scotland: Consumer rights in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/consumer-rights)\n- [Wales: Product safety for consumers](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/consumer-products-reporting-product-safety-issues)\n- [Northern Ireland: Consumer rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Report harm and use consumer redress**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Report harm and use consumer redress", "source": "services/report-product-safety-issue.md", "title": "Report a product safety issue within Report harm and use consumer redress" }, "process": { "id": "report-harm-and-use-consumer-redress", "route": "enclosing-process/report-harm-and-use-consumer-redress", "title": "Report harm and use consumer redress" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "contact-trading-standards", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/contact-trading-standards", "sequenced": false, "title": "Contact Trading Standards" }, { "id": "make-small-money-claim", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": 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high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Report a road collision\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Own and use a road vehicle** in the **Public and private transport** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nAddress immediate safety, exchange or record required details and use police, insurer and injury routes applicable to the collision.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Vehicle insurance if you're in an accident](https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-insurance/if-youre-in-an-accident)\n- [Scotland: Transport and travel in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport)\n- [Wales: Transport in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/transport)\n- [Northern Ireland: Travel, transport and roads in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/travel-transport-and-roads)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Own and use a road vehicle**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Own and use a road vehicle", "source": "services/report-road-collision.md", "title": "Report a road collision within Own and use a road vehicle" }, "process": { "id": "own-and-use-a-road-vehicle", "route": "enclosing-process/own-and-use-a-road-vehicle", "title": "Own and use a road vehicle" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-parking-permit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-parking-permit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a parking permit" }, { "id": "obtain-mot-test", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-mot-test", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain an MOT test" }, { "id": "obtain-motor-insurance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-motor-insurance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain motor insurance" }, { "id": "pay-clean-air-zone-charge", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/pay-clean-air-zone-charge", "sequenced": false, "title": "Pay a clean air zone charge" }, { "id": "register-vehicle", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-vehicle", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a vehicle" }, { "id": "tax-or-sorn-vehicle", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/tax-or-sorn-vehicle", "sequenced": false, "title": "Tax or make a SORN for a vehicle" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e1e04e5dd95e715dac185156", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/98bf29ac3d393750eeae7eba" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/report-road-collision", "situations": [ "A vehicle collision has caused injury, damage or another reportable circumstance." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_road_collision_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "report-road-collision-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not provide emergency response, decide fault, assess injury or determine liability or compensation." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Transport", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9014c33ddd9ccae2000a958c", "resource_id": "resource:report-road-collision:report-road-collision-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-road-collision-report-road-collision-primary", "summary": "Explains immediate detail exchange, police-report and insurer-notification boundaries.", "title": "Vehicle insurance if you're in an accident", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-insurance/if-youre-in-an-accident" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England concession, permit or operator-licensing route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/64b7ffc5cb6a599bf87f0266", "resource_id": "resource:report-road-collision:public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-road-collision-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish public, accessible, local and road-transport services.", "title": "Transport and travel in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport" }, { "authority_role": "wales_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine a local permit, concession, operator licence or journey accessibility." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/70a79f0412639b166833af0e", "resource_id": "resource:report-road-collision:public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-road-collision-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh transport policy, concessions and service information.", "title": "Transport in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/transport" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain vehicle and local-transport pages do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3065c4de067e136e0110e257", "resource_id": "resource:report-road-collision:public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": 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"Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Report a scam or fraud\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Report harm and use consumer redress** in the **Shopping and consumer rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nTake immediate account or payment-security action and report the event through the current police, fraud and platform routes for the jurisdiction.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Consumer rights and scam advice](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n- [Scotland: Consumer rights in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/consumer-rights)\n- [Wales: Consumer rights and scam advice](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n- [Northern Ireland: Consumer rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Report harm and use consumer redress**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Report harm and use consumer redress", "source": "services/report-scam-or-fraud.md", "title": "Report a scam or fraud within Report harm and use consumer redress" }, "process": { "id": "report-harm-and-use-consumer-redress", "route": "enclosing-process/report-harm-and-use-consumer-redress", "title": "Report harm and use consumer redress" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "contact-trading-standards", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/contact-trading-standards", "sequenced": false, "title": "Contact Trading Standards" }, { "id": "make-small-money-claim", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/make-small-money-claim", "sequenced": false, "title": "Make a small money claim" }, { "id": "report-product-safety-issue", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-product-safety-issue", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a product safety issue" }, { "id": "use-sector-ombudsman", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-sector-ombudsman", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a sector ombudsman" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/120d84c3801cd2cb75799d73", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8fce09af5390d0fb6afe200b" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/report-scam-or-fraud", "situations": [ "A person suspects deception, unauthorized payment, identity misuse or another fraud." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": 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accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e5bfa116c11998c42e67a1da", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3d6256e2a085a8ca0ad6072a", "resource_route": "resource/report-school-safeguarding-concern-report-school-safeguarding-concern-primary", "source_id": "report-school-safeguarding-concern-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3da78e20770217dcee69ca70", "resource_route": "resource/report-school-safeguarding-concern-school-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/34511531a91b15dc66298fb2", "resource_route": "resource/report-school-safeguarding-concern-school-years-wales-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5c7b630e2c821cb4ad752f79", "resource_route": "resource/report-school-safeguarding-concern-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/report-school-safeguarding-concern-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "report-school-safeguarding-concern-primary", "school-years-scotland-handoff", "school-years-wales-handoff", "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "report-school-safeguarding-concern", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Report a school safeguarding concern\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Receive school support and outcomes** in the **School years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the urgent, school or local-authority route when a concern about a child's safety arises in school life.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Report child abuse to a local council](https://www.gov.uk/report-child-abuse-to-local-council)\n- [Scotland: School education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Receive school support and outcomes**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Receive school support and outcomes", "source": "services/report-school-safeguarding-concern.md", "title": "Report a school safeguarding concern within Receive school support and outcomes" }, "process": { "id": "receive-school-support-and-outcomes", "route": "enclosing-process/receive-school-support-and-outcomes", "title": "Receive school support and outcomes" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-school-health", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-school-health", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access school health support" }, { "id": "challenge-school-exclusion", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/challenge-school-exclusion", "sequenced": false, "title": "Challenge a school exclusion" }, { "id": "get-school-send-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-school-send-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get school SEND support" }, { "id": "sit-public-examinations", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/sit-public-examinations", "sequenced": false, "title": "Sit public examinations" }, { "id": "support-child-in-care-education", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/support-child-in-care-education", "sequenced": false, "title": "Support a child in care in education" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/94fd1ff079e0b4c784d3a7bc", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b2d4b9acc8edc423e3b58295" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/report-school-safeguarding-concern", "situations": [ "Someone is concerned that a child connected with a school may be harmed or at risk." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_local_child_safeguarding_discovery_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "report-school-safeguarding-concern-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess risk, investigate harm or replace emergency services." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0153276fd1c5ed29bd11c0ce", "resource_id": "resource:report-school-safeguarding-concern:report-school-safeguarding-concern-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-school-safeguarding-concern-report-school-safeguarding-concern-primary", "summary": "Routes an England concern to the relevant local children's social-care service.", "title": "Report child abuse to a local council", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/report-child-abuse-to-local-council" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e41e937311254ff31ecace54", "resource_id": "resource:report-school-safeguarding-concern:school-years-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-school-safeguarding-concern-school-years-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish school education services and support.", "title": "School education in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b8f4620e83d445d39a8c8b68", "resource_id": "resource:report-school-safeguarding-concern:school-years-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-school-safeguarding-concern-school-years-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh education services, policy and support.", "title": "Education and skills in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/education-skills" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0e9714f93d3906edf1092692", "resource_id": "resource:report-school-safeguarding-concern:school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-school-safeguarding-concern-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland education services and support.", "title": "Education in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Report a school safeguarding concern", "user_needs": [ "Reach the current safeguarding authority without delaying an emergency response." ] }, { "aliases": [ "street not swept", "road cleansing complaint", "dirty pavement report" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "report-street-cleaning-failure-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "report-street-cleaning-failure-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": 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"supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Report the precise public-space location and condition to the authority or landowner responsible for cleansing and retain its response.", "domain": { "id": "rubbish-recycling-and-street", "route": "life-course-domain/rubbish-recycling-and-street", "title": "Rubbish, recycling and the street" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A road", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Report the precise public-space location and condition to the authority or landowner responsible for cleansing and retain its response.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/916ea1dfc7602e83f1e42f0c", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e3f6aed0f3b9592a2eecdd25" }, "route": "service-episode/report-street-cleaning-failure-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": 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eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Report a street-cleaning failure\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Report street and environmental problems** in the **Rubbish, recycling and the street** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nReport the precise public-space location and condition to the authority or landowner responsible for cleansing and retain its response.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Find your local council](https://www.gov.uk/find-local-council)\n- [Scotland: Bins and recycling in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services/rubbish-and-recycling)\n- [Wales: Recycling and waste in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/recycling-waste-circular-economy)\n- [Northern Ireland: Rubbish, recycling and waste in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/environment-and-outdoors/waste-and-recycling)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Report street and environmental problems**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Report street and environmental problems", "source": "services/report-street-cleaning-failure.md", "title": "Report a street-cleaning failure within Report street and environmental problems" }, "process": { "id": "report-street-and-environmental-problems", "route": "enclosing-process/report-street-and-environmental-problems", "title": "Report street and environmental problems" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "report-abandoned-vehicle", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-abandoned-vehicle", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report an abandoned vehicle" }, { "id": "report-fly-tipping", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-fly-tipping", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report fly-tipping" }, { "id": "report-litter-or-dog-fouling", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-litter-or-dog-fouling", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report litter or dog fouling" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d3291a52983318484a574ee9", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8c573a53db7bca4fb39523c6" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/report-street-cleaning-failure", "situations": [ "A road, pavement or public area has not been cleaned or remains affected after a service visit." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_local_street_cleansing_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "report-street-cleaning-failure-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify the responsible tier for a specific location or set a cleaning standard or response time." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/13ad41e3e638e2ab34659208", "resource_id": "resource:report-street-cleaning-failure:report-street-cleaning-failure-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-street-cleaning-failure-report-street-cleaning-failure-primary", "summary": "Locates the England council through which local street-cleansing responsibility can be resolved.", "title": "Find your local council", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/find-local-council" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_waste_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine collection arrangements, accepted materials, charges or enforcement." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a49d7d4c403304c74c3b617e", "resource_id": "resource:report-street-cleaning-failure:rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/report-street-cleaning-failure-rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish household-waste and local-council services.", "title": "Bins and recycling in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services/rubbish-and-recycling" }, { "authority_role": "wales_waste_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": 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"summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5a69188366255a36de5d1596", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1cc431a1c25b37b11b84a4c7", "resource_route": "resource/report-workplace-injury-report-workplace-injury-primary", "source_id": "report-workplace-injury-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/76da5ef2d02747f135502a01", "resource_route": "resource/report-workplace-injury-employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/report-workplace-injury-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "report-workplace-injury-primary", "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "report-workplace-injury", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Report a workplace injury\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Protect safety, collective rights and redress** in the **Employment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nRecord the incident and use employer, enforcing-authority and injury-reporting routes applicable to the event.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Report an incident](https://www.hse.gov.uk/riddor/report.htm)\n- [Scotland: Report an incident](https://www.hse.gov.uk/riddor/report.htm)\n- [Wales: Report an incident](https://www.hse.gov.uk/riddor/report.htm)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Protect safety, collective rights and redress**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Protect safety, collective rights and redress", "source": "services/report-workplace-injury.md", "title": "Report a workplace injury within Protect safety, collective rights and redress" }, "process": { "id": "protect-safety-collective-rights-and-redress", "route": "enclosing-process/protect-safety-collective-rights-and-redress", "title": "Protect safety, collective rights and redress" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "bring-employment-dispute", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/bring-employment-dispute", "sequenced": false, "title": "Bring an employment dispute" }, { "id": "get-workplace-health-and-safety-protection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-workplace-health-and-safety-protection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get workplace health and safety protection" }, { "id": "join-or-use-trade-union", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/join-or-use-trade-union", "sequenced": false, "title": "Join or use a trade union" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/396abd2087eb0d7c195472b1", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/32f7d7cc441d99ebfd6a4af6" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/report-workplace-injury", "situations": [ "A workplace accident, dangerous occurrence or occupational condition may require reporting." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_riddor_reporting_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": 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"request-patent-search-and-examination", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Request patent search and examination\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Protect and register intellectual property** in the **Ideas, creativity and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nRead the filed application and official correspondence and submit the required search or examination request and fee within the stated application-specific time.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Patent search, publication and examination](https://www.gov.uk/patent-your-invention/request-your-search-and-examination)\n- [Scotland: Patent search, publication and examination](https://www.gov.uk/patent-your-invention/request-your-search-and-examination)\n- [Wales: Patent search, publication and examination](https://www.gov.uk/patent-your-invention/request-your-search-and-examination)\n- [Northern Ireland: Patent search, publication and examination](https://www.gov.uk/patent-your-invention/request-your-search-and-examination)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Protect and register intellectual property**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Protect and register intellectual property", "source": "services/request-patent-search-and-examination.md", "title": "Request patent search and examination within Protect and register intellectual property" }, "process": { "id": "protect-and-register-intellectual-property", "route": "enclosing-process/protect-and-register-intellectual-property", "title": "Protect and register intellectual property" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-patent", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-patent", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for a patent" }, { "id": "license-intellectual-property", "relationship": 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"narrative": { "body": "# Resolve a consumer credit dispute\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Exercise contract and remedy rights** in the **Shopping and consumer rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nComplain to the authorised firm first, retain its final response and use the current regulator, ombudsman or court route where applicable.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Complain about a financial service](https://www.gov.uk/complain-financial-service)\n- [Scotland: Consumer rights in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/consumer-rights)\n- [Wales: Complain about a financial service](https://www.gov.uk/complain-financial-service)\n- [Northern Ireland: Consumer rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Exercise contract and remedy rights**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Exercise contract and remedy rights", "source": "services/resolve-consumer-credit-dispute.md", "title": "Resolve a consumer credit dispute within Exercise contract and remedy rights" }, "process": { "id": "exercise-contract-and-remedy-rights", "route": "enclosing-process/exercise-contract-and-remedy-rights", "title": "Exercise contract and remedy rights" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "cancel-distance-contract", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/cancel-distance-contract", "sequenced": false, "title": "Cancel a distance contract" }, { "id": "challenge-unfair-contract-term", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/challenge-unfair-contract-term", "sequenced": false, "title": "Challenge an unfair contract term" }, { "id": "exercise-consumer-rights-for-goods", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/exercise-consumer-rights-for-goods", "sequenced": false, "title": "Exercise consumer rights for goods" }, { "id": "exercise-consumer-rights-for-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/exercise-consumer-rights-for-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Exercise consumer rights for services" }, { "id": "exercise-digital-content-rights", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/exercise-digital-content-rights", "sequenced": false, "title": "Exercise digital content rights" }, { "id": "seek-refund-repair-or-replacement", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/seek-refund-repair-or-replacement", "sequenced": false, "title": "Seek a refund, repair or replacement" } ], 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"outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ed5813bee92ebd6b76781f7f", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0171fdd05748ec13b10b2069", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/518ee15edf924843b4cf5762", "resource_route": "resource/resolve-parental-responsibility-resolve-parental-responsibility-primary", "source_id": "resolve-parental-responsibility-primary" }, { "assertion_id": 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"entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e369b7c46d187f6c88f4ed74", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/464088e9a578e1a3208ce868" }, "route": "service-episode/resolve-parental-responsibility-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": 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{ "body": "# Resolve parental responsibility\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Form, change and support family relationships** in the **Relationships and family change** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify whether responsibility already exists and use the applicable registration, agreement or court route if a formal change or decision is needed.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Parental rights and responsibilities](https://www.gov.uk/parental-rights-responsibilities)\n- [Scotland: Births, deaths and family in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family)\n- [Wales: Parental rights and responsibilities](https://www.gov.uk/parental-rights-responsibilities)\n- [Northern Ireland: Find out your rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/find-out-your-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Form, change and support family relationships**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Form, change and support family relationships", "source": "services/resolve-parental-responsibility.md", "title": "Resolve parental responsibility within Form, change and support family relationships" }, "process": { "id": "form-change-and-support-family-relationships", "route": "enclosing-process/form-change-and-support-family-relationships", "title": "Form, change and support family relationships" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "adopt-child", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/adopt-child", "sequenced": false, "title": "Adopt a child" }, { "id": "arrange-child-maintenance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", 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"resolve-recruitment-discrimination", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Resolve recruitment discrimination\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter fair and supported work** in the **Finding work and unemployment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nRetain recruitment evidence and use advice, conciliation or legal routes when unlawful discrimination may have occurred.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Discrimination, your rights, what you can do](https://www.gov.uk/discrimination-your-rights/what-you-can-do)\n- [Scotland: Finding a job in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job)\n- [Wales: Employment support in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/employment-support)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter fair and supported work**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter fair and supported work", "source": "services/resolve-recruitment-discrimination.md", "title": "Resolve recruitment discrimination within Enter fair and supported work" }, "process": { "id": "enter-fair-and-supported-work", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-fair-and-supported-work", "title": "Enter fair and supported work" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-access-to-work", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-access-to-work", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Access to Work" }, { "id": "get-disclosure-or-dbs-check", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-disclosure-or-dbs-check", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a disclosure or DBS check" }, { "id": "get-jobcentre-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-jobcentre-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Jobcentre support" }, { "id": "prove-right-to-work", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/prove-right-to-work", "sequenced": false, "title": "Prove the right to work" }, { "id": "start-work-based-apprenticeship", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-work-based-apprenticeship", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start a work-based apprenticeship" }, { "id": "use-public-job-search", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-public-job-search", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use public job search" }, { "id": "volunteer-in-the-uk", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/volunteer-in-the-uk", "sequenced": false, "title": "Volunteer in the UK" } ], "relationship_assertions": { 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or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Respond to a council parking penalty\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Respond to road notices and penalties** in the **Transport enforcement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the statutory parking notice stage, preserve evidence and pay or use the issuing authority's current representation and appeal route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Parking tickets](https://www.gov.uk/parking-tickets)\n- [Scotland: Road safety, parking tickets, fines and bans in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport/penalty-points-fines)\n- [Wales: Parking tickets](https://www.gov.uk/parking-tickets)\n- [Northern Ireland: Motoring offences in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/fixed-penalties-motoring-offences)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Respond to road notices and penalties**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Respond to road notices and penalties", "source": "services/respond-to-council-parking-penalty.md", "title": "Respond to a council parking penalty within Respond to road notices and penalties" }, "process": { "id": "respond-to-road-notices-and-penalties", "route": "enclosing-process/respond-to-road-notices-and-penalties", "title": "Respond to road notices and penalties" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "accept-fixed-penalty", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/accept-fixed-penalty", "sequenced": false, "title": "Accept a fixed penalty" }, { "id": "attend-driver-awareness-course", "relationship": 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b913c5cae87c1c69f93d2ab6", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/94c8689a4b1bca489200a297", "resource_route": "resource/respond-to-driving-disqualification-respond-to-driving-disqualification-primary", "source_id": "respond-to-driving-disqualification-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ec39ab36844beda4b53bfc89", "resource_route": "resource/respond-to-driving-disqualification-transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/927f87b1732fbf8b40f81636", "resource_route": "resource/respond-to-driving-disqualification-transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined 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not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Respond to driving disqualification\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution** in the **Transport enforcement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFollow the court and licensing instructions that apply to the ban and use the current restoration or reduction route only where published.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Driving disqualifications](https://www.gov.uk/driving-disqualifications)\n- [Scotland: Road safety, parking tickets, fines and bans in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport/penalty-points-fines)\n- [Wales: Driving disqualifications](https://www.gov.uk/driving-disqualifications)\n- [Northern Ireland: Motoring offences in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/fixed-penalties-motoring-offences)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution", "source": "services/respond-to-driving-disqualification.md", "title": "Respond to driving disqualification within Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution" }, "process": { "id": "challenge-restriction-removal-or-prosecution", "route": "enclosing-process/challenge-restriction-removal-or-prosecution", "title": "Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "appeal-to-traffic-penalty-tribunal", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/appeal-to-traffic-penalty-tribunal", "sequenced": false, "title": "Appeal to a traffic penalty tribunal" }, { "id": "contest-road-user-charge", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/contest-road-user-charge", "sequenced": false, "title": "Contest a road-user charge" }, { "id": "respond-to-transport-prosecution", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/respond-to-transport-prosecution", "sequenced": false, "title": "Respond to a transport prosecution" }, { "id": "respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal", "sequenced": false, "title": "Respond to vehicle clamping or removal" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2d503b7d1de53c36a77ca331", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/38453c0eca1edb06a177575e" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/respond-to-driving-disqualification", "situations": [ "A court has disqualified a person from driving or a driver needs to understand the resulting licence process." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_driving_disqualification_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "respond-to-driving-disqualification-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not interpret an order, advise on appeal or establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e6d70acd3b0cbbb39f7eda38", "resource_id": "resource:respond-to-driving-disqualification:respond-to-driving-disqualification-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/respond-to-driving-disqualification-respond-to-driving-disqualification-primary", "summary": "Explains Great Britain ban, licence return, retest and reapplication handoffs.", "title": "Driving disqualifications", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/driving-disqualifications" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transport_enforcement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine whether a notice, penalty, prosecution or appeal is valid." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6461918b45c2a823b58447b0", "resource_id": "resource:respond-to-driving-disqualification:transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/respond-to-driving-disqualification-transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish road-safety, parking, fine and driving-ban information.", "title": "Road safety, parking tickets, fines and bans in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport/penalty-points-fines" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transport_enforcement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "England, Wales and Scotland enforcement routes do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e6bbc6afa027834418d1a772", "resource_id": "resource:respond-to-driving-disqualification:transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/respond-to-driving-disqualification-transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland motoring-offence, penalty and court information.", "title": "Motoring offences in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/fixed-penalties-motoring-offences" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Respond to driving disqualification", "user_needs": [ "Keep the court order, licensing record, reapplication and legal-advice boundaries explicit." ] }, { "aliases": [ "find government consultations", "submit consultation response", "comment on policy proposal" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "respond-to-public-consultation-primary", 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"supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7446343bd51abd87d19b6a4e", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/64d7d0be6cc4e09579970f78", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dfb1f502b2592be456ac769d", "resource_route": "resource/respond-to-public-consultation-respond-to-public-consultation-primary", "source_id": "respond-to-public-consultation-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/respond-to-public-consultation-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "respond-to-public-consultation-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to respond to a public consultation and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": 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"body": "# Respond to a public consultation\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Participate in democracy and exercise information rights** in the **Citizenship, democracy and rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nConfirm the responsible public body, scope and closing information and submit evidence or views through its current channel.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Consultations and calls for evidence](https://www.gov.uk/search/policy-papers-and-consultations)\n- [Scotland: Consultations and calls for evidence](https://www.gov.uk/search/policy-papers-and-consultations)\n- [Wales: Consultations and calls for evidence](https://www.gov.uk/search/policy-papers-and-consultations)\n- [Northern Ireland: Consultations and calls for evidence](https://www.gov.uk/search/policy-papers-and-consultations)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Participate in democracy and exercise information rights**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Participate in democracy and exercise information rights", "source": "services/respond-to-public-consultation.md", "title": "Respond to a public consultation within Participate in democracy and exercise information rights" }, "process": { "id": "participate-in-democracy-and-exercise-information-rights", "route": "enclosing-process/participate-in-democracy-and-exercise-information-rights", "title": "Participate in democracy and exercise information rights" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "contact-elected-representative", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/contact-elected-representative", "sequenced": false, "title": 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The dossier does not identify a driver, decide liability, select a plea, predict a disposal or give case-specific legal advice.", "limitations": [ "Actual notices and current law override this normalized discovery model.", "Specialist legal review is required before release-grade status." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Respond to a speeding notice\n\nThis normalized family distinguishes a notice of intended prosecution, a\ndriver-information request, a later fixed or conditional offer, and a criminal\ncourt document. It does not decide whether an allegation is valid, who drove,\nwhether a course or fixed penalty will be offered, what plea to enter, or what\na court will decide.\n\nThe selected implementations are the\n[Great Britain notice route](generated/browser/services/great-britain-speeding-notice.html), its separate\n[England and Wales court branch](generated/browser/services/england-wales-speeding-court-route.html) and\n[Scottish prosecution branch](generated/browser/services/scotland-speeding-prosecution-route.html), plus the\n[Northern Ireland notice and court route](generated/browser/services/northern-ireland-speeding-notice.html).\n\nFor a real document, its issuer, reference, recipient role, alleged event,\nresponse channel and deadline control. The bundle hands disputed facts,\nidentity uncertainty, defence, plea and appeal questions to the current\nofficial route and qualified legal advice.", "process_context": "Respond to road notices and penalties", "source": "services/respond-to-speeding-notice.md", "title": "Respond to a speeding notice within Respond to road notices and penalties" }, "process": { "id": "respond-to-road-notices-and-penalties", "route": "enclosing-process/respond-to-road-notices-and-penalties", "title": "Respond to road notices and penalties" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "accept-fixed-penalty", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/accept-fixed-penalty", "sequenced": false, "title": "Accept a fixed penalty" }, { "id": "attend-driver-awareness-course", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/attend-driver-awareness-course", "sequenced": false, "title": "Attend a driver awareness course" }, { "id": "challenge-private-parking-charge", "relationship": 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individual report" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service", "position": 4, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b8101b7b88e70eedcbdb8e20", "resource_id": "resource:respond-to-speeding-notice:copfs-prosecution-code", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/respond-to-speeding-notice-copfs-prosecution-code", "summary": "Scottish prosecution decisions and conditional offers for specified road traffic offences", "title": "Scottish prosecution decisions and conditional offers for specified road traffic offences", "url": "https://www.copfs.gov.uk/publications/prosecution-code/html/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_criminal_court_redress", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "mygov-scotland-criminal-appeal", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "procedure, deadline, merits and outcome require the current court route and legal advice" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 5, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/aebd38beacf474248f45138b", "resource_id": "resource:respond-to-speeding-notice:mygov-scotland-criminal-appeal", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/respond-to-speeding-notice-mygov-scotland-criminal-appeal", "summary": "Scotland appeal boundary after conviction or sentence", "title": "Scotland appeal boundary after conviction or sentence", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/appeal-sentence-conviction" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_speeding_notice_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "nidirect-speeding-penalties", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "the notice controls the allotted response time; no course eligibility or liability prediction" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Department for Infrastructure Northern Ireland", "position": 6, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e06f23f5c7dd0367f3eb6092", "resource_id": "resource:respond-to-speeding-notice:nidirect-speeding-penalties", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/respond-to-speeding-notice-nidirect-speeding-penalties", "summary": "Northern Ireland Road Safety Partnership notice, driver identification, course, fixed penalty and court branches", "title": "Northern Ireland Road Safety Partnership notice, driver identification, course, fixed penalty and court branches", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/speed-limits-and-penalties-breaking-them" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_fixed_penalty_and_court_choice", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "nidirect-fixed-penalties", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "ticket-specific amount, deadline and acceptance conditions remain on the notice" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service", "position": 7, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8b47945c585086f51e0cd9cc", "resource_id": "resource:respond-to-speeding-notice:nidirect-fixed-penalties", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/respond-to-speeding-notice-nidirect-fixed-penalties", "summary": "Northern Ireland motoring fixed-penalty payment and court-hearing boundary", "title": "Northern Ireland motoring fixed-penalty payment and court-hearing boundary", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/fixed-penalties-motoring-offences" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_criminal_court_redress", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "nidirect-appealing-verdict", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "case-specific grounds, deadlines, advice and outcomes remain outside the bundle" ], "observed_at": "2026-08-07", "owner": "Department of Justice Northern Ireland", "position": 8, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/426ed4f386030cc9d468e5d6", "resource_id": "resource:respond-to-speeding-notice:nidirect-appealing-verdict", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/respond-to-speeding-notice-nidirect-appealing-verdict", "summary": "Northern Ireland criminal conviction and sentence appeal boundary", "title": "Northern Ireland criminal conviction and sentence appeal boundary", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/appealing-verdict" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Respond to 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state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/af646901bf44a517fc8c8668", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/191426c435488f6934aad9a7", "resource_route": "resource/respond-to-transport-prosecution-respond-to-transport-prosecution-primary", "source_id": "respond-to-transport-prosecution-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/60abc6659a23982155c1a4f5", "resource_route": "resource/respond-to-transport-prosecution-transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ac688460ce38edfd656c8f0b", "resource_route": "resource/respond-to-transport-prosecution-transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/respond-to-transport-prosecution-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "respond-to-transport-prosecution-primary", "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "respond-to-transport-prosecution", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Respond to a transport prosecution\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution** in the **Transport enforcement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nPreserve the charge or summons and obtain current legal and court information for plea, evidence, hearing and appeal boundaries.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Charged with a crime](https://www.gov.uk/charged-crime)\n- [Scotland: Road safety, parking tickets, fines and bans in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport/penalty-points-fines)\n- [Wales: Charged with a crime](https://www.gov.uk/charged-crime)\n- [Northern Ireland: Motoring offences in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/fixed-penalties-motoring-offences)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution", "source": "services/respond-to-transport-prosecution.md", "title": "Respond to a transport prosecution within Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution" }, "process": { "id": "challenge-restriction-removal-or-prosecution", "route": "enclosing-process/challenge-restriction-removal-or-prosecution", "title": "Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "appeal-to-traffic-penalty-tribunal", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/appeal-to-traffic-penalty-tribunal", "sequenced": false, "title": "Appeal to a traffic penalty tribunal" }, { "id": "contest-road-user-charge", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/contest-road-user-charge", "sequenced": false, "title": "Contest a road-user charge" }, { "id": "respond-to-driving-disqualification", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/respond-to-driving-disqualification", "sequenced": false, "title": "Respond to driving disqualification" }, { "id": "respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal", "sequenced": false, "title": "Respond to vehicle clamping or removal" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/470c73eca26fcdc6fb9ef969", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ab545ba14835762cfa7a86c2" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/respond-to-transport-prosecution", "situations": [ "A person faces a criminal court process for a driving or transport allegation." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_criminal_court_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "respond-to-transport-prosecution-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not provide legal advice, interpret evidence, calculate time or predict sentence or appeal." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Justice", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/06a3a8fbda4fee02722aad1d", "resource_id": "resource:respond-to-transport-prosecution:respond-to-transport-prosecution-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/respond-to-transport-prosecution-respond-to-transport-prosecution-primary", "summary": "Introduces England and Wales charge, legal-advice, plea and court handoffs.", "title": "Charged with a crime", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/charged-crime" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transport_enforcement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine whether a notice, penalty, prosecution or appeal is valid." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/af51777bf08ce5b3afb6849c", "resource_id": "resource:respond-to-transport-prosecution:transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/respond-to-transport-prosecution-transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish road-safety, parking, fine and driving-ban information.", "title": "Road safety, parking tickets, fines and bans in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport/penalty-points-fines" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transport_enforcement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "England, Wales and Scotland enforcement routes do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/345eedf0e7c83a80695c4fe2", "resource_id": "resource:respond-to-transport-prosecution:transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/respond-to-transport-prosecution-transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland motoring-offence, penalty and court information.", "title": "Motoring offences in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/fixed-penalties-motoring-offences" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Respond to a transport prosecution", "user_needs": [ "Find regulated legal help and the named court route without receiving a plea recommendation or outcome prediction." ] }, { "aliases": [ "car clamped", "vehicle towed away", "recover impounded vehicle" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", 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"resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/205b0f2e6cd8b8f43996e714", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3455c1f0fc5919d021cf4862", "resource_route": "resource/respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal-respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal-primary", "source_id": "respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/381331cb698dbc1faa1b4653", "resource_route": "resource/respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal-transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b1f38fec9a626bef34ec085d", "resource_route": "resource/respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal-transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No 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legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Respond to vehicle clamping or removal\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution** in the **Transport enforcement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the public authority, police or lawful land route responsible, secure urgent access information and preserve payment and challenge evidence.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Getting your vehicle clamped or removed](https://www.gov.uk/get-a-clamped-or-impounded-vehicle-released)\n- [Scotland: Road safety, parking tickets, fines and bans in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport/penalty-points-fines)\n- [Wales: Getting your vehicle clamped or removed](https://www.gov.uk/get-a-clamped-or-impounded-vehicle-released)\n- [Northern Ireland: Motoring offences in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/fixed-penalties-motoring-offences)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution", "source": "services/respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal.md", "title": "Respond to vehicle clamping or removal within Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution" }, "process": { "id": "challenge-restriction-removal-or-prosecution", "route": "enclosing-process/challenge-restriction-removal-or-prosecution", "title": "Challenge restriction, removal or prosecution" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "appeal-to-traffic-penalty-tribunal", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/appeal-to-traffic-penalty-tribunal", "sequenced": false, "title": "Appeal to a traffic penalty tribunal" }, { "id": "contest-road-user-charge", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/contest-road-user-charge", "sequenced": false, "title": "Contest a road-user charge" }, { "id": "respond-to-driving-disqualification", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/respond-to-driving-disqualification", "sequenced": false, "title": "Respond to driving disqualification" }, { "id": "respond-to-transport-prosecution", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/respond-to-transport-prosecution", "sequenced": false, "title": "Respond to a transport prosecution" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c47858962b092a4ea6f58b4c", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3b6a779f3f73f7b469431b2d" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal", "situations": [ "A vehicle has been immobilised, removed or impounded." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_vehicle_clamping_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify the actor for a real vehicle, authorize release or decide a refund or appeal." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/be6422e2d30f422eb1a07d24", "resource_id": "resource:respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal:respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal-respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal-primary", "summary": "Routes users through common DVLA, council, police and private-land clamping or removal situations.", "title": "Getting your vehicle clamped or removed", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/get-a-clamped-or-impounded-vehicle-released" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transport_enforcement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine whether a notice, penalty, prosecution or appeal is valid." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/29befcd391d73b5202bdafd6", "resource_id": "resource:respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal:transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal-transport-enforcement-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish road-safety, parking, fine and driving-ban information.", "title": "Road safety, parking tickets, fines and bans in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport/penalty-points-fines" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transport_enforcement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "England, Wales and Scotland enforcement routes do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9ba630d6df90c6f9cf1ade79", "resource_id": "resource:respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal:transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/respond-to-vehicle-clamping-or-removal-transport-enforcement-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland motoring-offence, penalty and court information.", "title": "Motoring offences in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/fixed-penalties-motoring-offences" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Respond to vehicle clamping or removal", "user_needs": [ "Distinguish police, council, DVLA and private-land action and avoid unsafe or unlawful self-removal." ] }, { "aliases": [ "PAYE for employers", "report employee pay", "payroll submissions HMRC" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "run-payroll-primary", "provider": 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"family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fba2d16a16f93869ef2ae9a7" }, "route": "service-episode/run-payroll-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c8b624160b42d13434baf1d6", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/682bb5858d5328061cbef1a0", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5cbbc629b7c42787c2a3445d", "resource_route": "resource/run-payroll-run-payroll-primary", "source_id": "run-payroll-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/run-payroll-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "run-payroll-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to run payroll and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Register as an employer where required, maintain payroll records and send current pay, deduction and final reports through the HMRC route." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c6708c6661345a70e3f6b10a", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e2f25861dcde8239028fc7e0", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d09022466aabbd327ed96c8d", "resource_route": "resource/run-payroll-run-payroll-primary", "source_id": "run-payroll-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/run-payroll-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "run-payroll-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a1ea599bfc4323562d91eb31", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/06e2cb16a63eb88bac7bdf66" }, "route": "service-episode/run-payroll-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/eea501b89d9eb400671ccdd0", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7e5392d1eca758a664fe8899", "resource_route": "resource/run-payroll-run-payroll-primary", "source_id": "run-payroll-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/run-payroll-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "run-payroll-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "run-payroll", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Run payroll\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Operate, regulate and close an organisation** in the **Starting and running an organisation** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nRegister as an employer where required, maintain payroll records and send current pay, deduction and final reports through the HMRC route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: PAYE and payroll for employers](https://www.gov.uk/paye-for-employers)\n- [Scotland: PAYE and payroll for employers](https://www.gov.uk/paye-for-employers)\n- [Wales: PAYE and payroll for employers](https://www.gov.uk/paye-for-employers)\n- [Northern Ireland: PAYE and payroll for employers](https://www.gov.uk/paye-for-employers)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Operate, regulate and close an organisation**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Operate, regulate and close an organisation", "source": "services/run-payroll.md", "title": "Run payroll within Operate, regulate and close an organisation" }, "process": { "id": "operate-regulate-and-close-an-organisation", "route": "enclosing-process/operate-regulate-and-close-an-organisation", "title": "Operate, regulate and close an organisation" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "bid-for-public-contract", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/bid-for-public-contract", "sequenced": false, "title": "Bid for a public contract" }, { "id": "close-or-insolvent-business", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/close-or-insolvent-business", "sequenced": false, "title": "Close or make a business insolvent" }, { "id": "meet-workplace-safety-duties", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/meet-workplace-safety-duties", "sequenced": false, "title": "Meet workplace safety duties" }, { "id": "obtain-business-licence", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-business-licence", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain a business licence" }, { "id": "register-data-protection-fee", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-data-protection-fee", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a data-protection fee" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/64b8943b8a176858164e438a", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d4c0307e5674e6a06fc51e16" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": 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condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Search prior art\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Protect and register intellectual property** in the **Ideas, creativity and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSearch relevant patent and technical information, record the strategy and results and obtain specialist interpretation before relying on novelty conclusions.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Search for a patent](https://www.gov.uk/search-for-patent)\n- [Scotland: Search for a patent](https://www.gov.uk/search-for-patent)\n- [Wales: Search for a patent](https://www.gov.uk/search-for-patent)\n- [Northern Ireland: Search for a patent](https://www.gov.uk/search-for-patent)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Protect and register intellectual property**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. 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"time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to seek planning permission and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Check whether consent is needed, submit to the responsible planning authority and retain conditions, decisions and appeal information." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/821429eb367e79e039d7c98d", "resource_route": "resource/seek-planning-permission-housing-community-wales-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a796e4d42d1fd38adf184627", "resource_route": "resource/seek-planning-permission-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/seek-planning-permission-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "seek-planning-permission-primary", "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "housing-community-wales-handoff", "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c39a5651f2d8f5d63bc11f43", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fd44310f336a22a64053adb1" }, "route": "service-episode/seek-planning-permission-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bf829ad4f9bda6dc160ae110", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8ad92869a37658b88e50e129", "resource_route": "resource/seek-planning-permission-seek-planning-permission-primary", "source_id": "seek-planning-permission-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9dd92093abbff5b916883a0e", "resource_route": "resource/seek-planning-permission-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/24368df72b397723a3555407", "resource_route": "resource/seek-planning-permission-housing-community-wales-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5b052bf0626fcaecb00c9297", "resource_route": "resource/seek-planning-permission-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/seek-planning-permission-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "seek-planning-permission-primary", "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "housing-community-wales-handoff", "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "seek-planning-permission", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Seek planning permission\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Adapt, develop and protect home and neighbourhood** in the **Housing and community life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck whether consent is needed, submit to the responsible planning authority and retain conditions, decisions and appeal information.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Planning permission](https://www.gov.uk/planning-permission-england-wales)\n- [Scotland: Housing and local services in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services)\n- [Wales: Housing in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/housing)\n- [Northern Ireland: Property and housing in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/property-and-housing)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Adapt, develop and protect home and neighbourhood**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Adapt, develop and protect home and neighbourhood", "source": "services/seek-planning-permission.md", "title": "Seek planning permission within Adapt, develop and protect home and neighbourhood" }, "process": { "id": "adapt-develop-and-protect-home-and-neighbourhood", "route": "enclosing-process/adapt-develop-and-protect-home-and-neighbourhood", "title": "Adapt, develop and protect home and neighbourhood" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-home-adaptation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-home-adaptation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for a home adaptation" }, { "id": "meet-building-regulations", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/meet-building-regulations", "sequenced": false, "title": "Meet building regulations" }, { "id": "report-noise-or-pest-nuisance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-noise-or-pest-nuisance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a noise or pest nuisance" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5138a68273467cf7f7a651e8", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ccc6af82cad09d32eeec1d8b" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/seek-planning-permission", "situations": [ "A person or organisation proposes development or a material change to land or buildings." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_planning_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "seek-planning-permission-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide whether permission is needed, grant consent or replace professional advice." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/64bb5ed555a455c4755f73e0", "resource_id": "resource:seek-planning-permission:seek-planning-permission-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/seek-planning-permission-seek-planning-permission-primary", "summary": "Introduces England and Wales permission, local-authority and appeal routes.", "title": "Planning permission", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/planning-permission-england-wales" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England housing rule or local route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/20b11e66fbdd7513f0013bdc", "resource_id": "resource:seek-planning-permission:housing-community-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/seek-planning-permission-housing-community-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish housing, planning, local-tax and neighbourhood services.", "title": "Housing and local services in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services" }, { "authority_role": "wales_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine a tenancy, planning, homelessness or adaptation decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8d27bb52cbbbedace397b087", "resource_id": "resource:seek-planning-permission:housing-community-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/seek-planning-permission-housing-community-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh housing policy, support and service information.", "title": "Housing in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/housing" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_housing_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "England, Scotland and Wales housing rules do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/58937e34164c12cc18608502", "resource_id": "resource:seek-planning-permission:housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/seek-planning-permission-housing-community-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland property, housing and local-service information.", "title": "Property and housing in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/property-and-housing" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Seek planning permission", "user_needs": [ "Reach the correct 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"primary_source": "seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Present purchase and condition evidence to the responsible trader and retain the remedy offered, refused or escalated.", "domain": { "id": "shopping-and-consumer-rights", "route": "life-course-domain/shopping-and-consumer-rights", "title": "Shopping and consumer rights" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A consumer wants a trader to refund", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Present purchase and condition evidence to the responsible trader and retain the remedy offered, refused or escalated.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8a43dc88e0a80189d310ed73", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3ebdd50dde97bccfc3536981" }, "route": "service-episode/seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a2b5647b024b39278ccadab1", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/807390de54d8dc2b3ca6e899", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ce1143630c84ca5343d10c2b", "resource_route": "resource/seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-primary", "source_id": "seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/486ebede714ce49fae588bfe", "resource_route": "resource/seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c907439d4ee97cb946fcb030", "resource_route": "resource/seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-primary", "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to seek a refund, repair or replacement and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Present purchase and condition evidence to the responsible trader and retain the remedy offered, refused or escalated." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d09a3af88047fca707f090e7", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1b4b1f8a315e3333b7a405a5", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d6d02e2333e227097b93c6b1", "resource_route": "resource/seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-primary", "source_id": "seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/54d518265c7adc8e55b77c08", "resource_route": "resource/seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/17e20ac8a2129111ab914631", "resource_route": "resource/seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-primary", "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/85d0f29d8c3b48f8ebcd26f7", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7d9744b828ff2060f5873d6f" }, "route": "service-episode/seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/43b600ea2f8b31f8c7a0fdea", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/333f87e4b659a73c883b97ad", "resource_route": "resource/seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-primary", "source_id": "seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5db0b93c9ced6df60cc7e840", "resource_route": "resource/seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0b7ea2001919eb91375509bc", "resource_route": "resource/seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "seek-refund-repair-or-replacement-primary", "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "seek-refund-repair-or-replacement", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Seek a refund, repair or replacement\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Exercise contract and remedy rights** in the **Shopping and consumer rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nPresent purchase and condition evidence to the responsible trader and retain the remedy offered, refused or escalated.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Accepting returns and giving refunds](https://www.gov.uk/accepting-returns-and-giving-refunds)\n- [Scotland: Consumer rights in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/consumer-rights)\n- [Wales: Accepting returns and giving refunds](https://www.gov.uk/accepting-returns-and-giving-refunds)\n- [Northern Ireland: Consumer rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Exercise contract and remedy rights**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. 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action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Seek research funding\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Conduct and recognise research and qualifications** in the **Further education, university and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind an applicable public funding opportunity and follow sponsor, organisation and funder submission stages.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Applying for research funding](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/applying-for-research-funding/applying-for-research-funding)\n- [Scotland: Further and higher education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Further and higher education in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Higher education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education/higher-education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Conduct and recognise research and qualifications**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Conduct and recognise research and qualifications", "source": "services/seek-research-funding.md", "title": "Seek research funding within Conduct and recognise research and qualifications" }, "process": { "id": "conduct-and-recognise-research-and-qualifications", "route": "enclosing-process/conduct-and-recognise-research-and-qualifications", "title": "Conduct and recognise research and qualifications" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-academic-qualification-recognised", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-academic-qualification-recognised", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get an academic qualification recognised" }, 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release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Settle estate debts\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Identify and administer an estate** in the **Death and bereavement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify estate liabilities and priority, preserve creditor and asset evidence and obtain insolvency or probate advice before payment or distribution where funds may be insufficient.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Settling debts and taxes](https://www.gov.uk/probate-estate/settling-debts-and-taxes)\n- [Scotland: Births, deaths and family in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family)\n- [Wales: Settling debts and taxes](https://www.gov.uk/probate-estate/settling-debts-and-taxes)\n- [Northern Ireland: What to do when someone dies](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/births-deaths-baby-loss-marriages-and-civil-partnerships/death-and)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Identify and administer an estate**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Identify and administer an estate", "source": "services/settle-estate-debts.md", "title": "Settle estate debts within Identify and administer an estate" }, "process": { "id": "identify-and-administer-an-estate", "route": "enclosing-process/identify-and-administer-an-estate", "title": "Identify and administer an estate" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "administer-an-estate", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/administer-an-estate", "sequenced": false, "title": "Administer an estate" }, { "id": "locate-or-prove-will", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/locate-or-prove-will", "sequenced": false, "title": "Locate or prove a will" }, { "id": "notify-private-organisations-after-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/notify-private-organisations-after-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Notify private organisations after death" }, { "id": "pay-inheritance-tax", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/pay-inheritance-tax", "sequenced": false, "title": "Pay Inheritance Tax" }, { "id": "update-property-records-after-death", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/update-property-records-after-death", "sequenced": false, "title": "Update property records after death" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ecace8b25171793d9c13c7f2", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f516bbfa825259a23e59ae68" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": 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"reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "sit-public-examinations", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Sit public examinations\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Receive school support and outcomes** in the **School years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNavigate entry, reasonable-adjustment, results and review routes for regulated school examinations.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Exam results, what you can do next](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/your-results-what-next)\n- [Scotland: School education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Receive school support and outcomes**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Receive school support and outcomes", "source": "services/sit-public-examinations.md", "title": "Sit public examinations within Receive school support and outcomes" }, "process": { "id": "receive-school-support-and-outcomes", "route": "enclosing-process/receive-school-support-and-outcomes", "title": "Receive school support and outcomes" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-school-health", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-school-health", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access school health support" }, { "id": "challenge-school-exclusion", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/challenge-school-exclusion", "sequenced": false, "title": "Challenge a school exclusion" }, { "id": "get-school-send-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-school-send-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get school SEND support" }, { "id": "report-school-safeguarding-concern", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-school-safeguarding-concern", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a school safeguarding concern" }, { "id": "support-child-in-care-education", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/support-child-in-care-education", "sequenced": false, "title": "Support a child in care in education" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0dd587b8081d05902df5457b", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b313e9fed1a765ddb80c70e3" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/sit-public-examinations", "situations": [ "A learner needs to enter, sit or respond to the result of a public examination." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_public_examination_results_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "sit-public-examinations-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not award a grade, arrange an exam entry or decide an appeal." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ed6b8c6c255d70a99cc1a49b", "resource_id": "resource:sit-public-examinations:sit-public-examinations-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/sit-public-examinations-sit-public-examinations-primary", "summary": "Routes learners from England qualification results to current review and next-step information.", "title": "Exam results, what you can do next", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/guidance/your-results-what-next" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d172d38ed86ac92edecc0ae4", "resource_id": "resource:sit-public-examinations:school-years-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/sit-public-examinations-school-years-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish school education services and support.", "title": "School education in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e6468e668562472c645769e2", "resource_id": "resource:sit-public-examinations:school-years-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/sit-public-examinations-school-years-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh education services, policy and support.", "title": "Education and skills in Wales", "url": 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standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d8ef5964f7fce8deb1a83bd9", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c9e0a9e0e7bfd0672476dcce" }, "route": "service-episode/stand-for-election-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": 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"stand-for-election-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/stand-for-election-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "stand-for-election-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "stand-for-election", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Stand for election\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Participate in democracy and exercise information rights** in the **Citizenship, democracy and rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the exact election and jurisdiction, obtain its current candidate guidance and complete nomination, agent, finance and reporting steps.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Elections in the UK](https://www.gov.uk/elections-in-the-uk)\n- [Scotland: Elections in the UK](https://www.gov.uk/elections-in-the-uk)\n- [Wales: Elections in the UK](https://www.gov.uk/elections-in-the-uk)\n- [Northern Ireland: Elections in the UK](https://www.gov.uk/elections-in-the-uk)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Participate in democracy and exercise information rights**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Participate in democracy and exercise information rights", "source": "services/stand-for-election.md", "title": "Stand for election within Participate in democracy and exercise information rights" }, "process": { "id": "participate-in-democracy-and-exercise-information-rights", "route": "enclosing-process/participate-in-democracy-and-exercise-information-rights", "title": "Participate in democracy and exercise information rights" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "contact-elected-representative", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/contact-elected-representative", "sequenced": false, "title": "Contact an elected representative" }, { "id": "exercise-data-protection-rights", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/exercise-data-protection-rights", "sequenced": false, "title": "Exercise data-protection rights" }, { "id": "maintain-electoral-registration", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/maintain-electoral-registration", "sequenced": false, "title": "Maintain electoral registration" }, { "id": "make-freedom-of-information-request", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/make-freedom-of-information-request", "sequenced": false, "title": "Make a freedom of information request" }, { "id": "perform-jury-service", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/perform-jury-service", "sequenced": false, "title": "Perform jury service" }, { "id": "petition-government", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/petition-government", "sequenced": false, "title": "Petition government" }, { "id": "respond-to-public-consultation", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/respond-to-public-consultation", "sequenced": false, "title": "Respond to a public consultation" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fff201bbdbd098691c662b15", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/17ce5a4434a0d03a9078e737" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/stand-for-election", "situations": [ "A person is considering becoming a candidate in a governed UK election." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_elections_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "stand-for-election-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not provide a complete candidate pack, decide qualification or 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"northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Enter the current maternity service early in pregnancy and identify the first booking and assessment handoff.", "domain": { "id": "before-birth-and-starting-family", "route": "life-course-domain/before-birth-and-starting-family", "title": "Before birth and starting a family" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person knows or thinks they are pregnant and needs to begin maternity care.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Enter the current maternity service early in pregnancy and identify the first booking and assessment handoff.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5cbab4522f47c8d42c64bc08", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0c292703ecf4231ab324b3c0" }, "route": "service-episode/start-antenatal-care-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/502362410ef124a9e4be8e2a", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6bb7c701d1f537162c40fa77", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/55c105c411de959f2da192bf", "resource_route": "resource/start-antenatal-care-start-antenatal-care-primary", "source_id": "start-antenatal-care-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a0cb9eb8ba2607a8b8732858", "resource_route": "resource/start-antenatal-care-before-birth-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": 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asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to start antenatal care and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Enter the current maternity service early in pregnancy and identify the first booking and assessment handoff." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": 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"before-birth-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7f8fb7510cd69ee672a3a86e", "resource_route": "resource/start-antenatal-care-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/start-antenatal-care-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "start-antenatal-care-primary", "before-birth-scotland-handoff", "before-birth-wales-handoff", "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b3ec627fe1931b9dd50d85a6", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/19d70b4bb1fbdec2bb2403d6" }, "route": "service-episode/start-antenatal-care-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d27b8c6417f92f683a2d3f71", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/212b3df28d5a043f57632abd", "resource_route": "resource/start-antenatal-care-start-antenatal-care-primary", "source_id": "start-antenatal-care-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/26e6c34943e8673a9d1db866", "resource_route": "resource/start-antenatal-care-before-birth-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2f47d3a7edb8d27ce0e78700", "resource_route": "resource/start-antenatal-care-before-birth-wales-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a096cd73ec6e9d12d392dda9", "resource_route": "resource/start-antenatal-care-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/start-antenatal-care-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "start-antenatal-care-primary", "before-birth-scotland-handoff", "before-birth-wales-handoff", "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "start-antenatal-care", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Start antenatal care\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support** in the **Before birth and starting a family** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nEnter the current maternity service early in pregnancy and identify the first booking and assessment handoff.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Your antenatal care and appointments](https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/your-pregnancy-care/your-antenatal-care-and-appointments/)\n- [Scotland: Having a baby in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family/children-parenting/having-baby)\n- [Wales: Children and families in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/children-families)\n- [Northern Ireland: Family, home and community in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/family-home-and-community)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support", "source": "services/start-antenatal-care.md", "title": "Start antenatal care within Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support" }, "process": { "id": "pregnancy-maternity-and-workplace-support", "route": "enclosing-process/pregnancy-maternity-and-workplace-support", "title": "Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-fertility-and-reproductive-health", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access fertility and reproductive health" }, { "id": "claim-maternity-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-maternity-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Maternity Allowance" }, { "id": "get-healthy-start-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-healthy-start-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Healthy Start support" }, { "id": "get-pregnancy-workplace-protection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-pregnancy-workplace-protection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get pregnancy workplace protection" }, { "id": "receive-maternity-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-maternity-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive maternity care" }, { "id": "take-maternity-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-maternity-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take maternity leave" }, { "id": "take-paternity-or-partner-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-paternity-or-partner-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take paternity or partner leave" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b552387b5ed1bfd3bc2f1610", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1ce007ba7f2deba078df85ae" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/start-antenatal-care", "situations": [ "A person knows or thinks they are pregnant and needs to begin maternity care." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_antenatal_care_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "start-antenatal-care-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose pregnancy, assess urgency or replace a midwife, GP or emergency service." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f611ebe620832bceac6a82f1", "resource_id": "resource:start-antenatal-care:start-antenatal-care-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/start-antenatal-care-start-antenatal-care-primary", "summary": "Routes a person in England into antenatal booking, appointments and source-defined care information.", "title": "Your antenatal care and appointments", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/your-pregnancy-care/your-antenatal-care-and-appointments/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_pregnancy_and_parenting_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "before-birth-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8a7b35a5328edcaa87be7d1a", "resource_id": "resource:start-antenatal-care:before-birth-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/start-antenatal-care-before-birth-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Scotland to current pregnancy, birth and early-parenting services and support.", "title": "Having a baby in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family/children-parenting/having-baby" }, { "authority_role": "wales_children_and_families_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "before-birth-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2eec1511ebccac3bfed6753f", "resource_id": "resource:start-antenatal-care:before-birth-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/start-antenatal-care-before-birth-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Wales to current children, family, pregnancy and early-years policy and services.", "title": "Children and families in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/children-families" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_family_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3b41b7ea9c5347dbba979806", "resource_id": "resource:start-antenatal-care:before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/start-antenatal-care-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Northern Ireland to current family, pregnancy, birth and local support services.", "title": "Family, home and community in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/family-home-and-community" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Start antenatal care", "user_needs": [ "Find the current self-referral, GP or midwife route for the place where care will be received." ] }, { "aliases": [ "find an apprenticeship", "apprentice job and training" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "start-apprenticeship-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "start-apprenticeship-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Search and apply for an apprenticeship, then retain the employer and training-provider agreements.", "domain": { "id": "transition-to-adulthood", "route": "life-course-domain/transition-to-adulthood", "title": "Transition to adulthood" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person wants paid work combined with approved training.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Search and apply for an apprenticeship, then retain the employer and 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"transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to start an apprenticeship and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Search and apply for an apprenticeship, then retain the employer and training-provider agreements." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fb08e0ed2c5c66a3e46744c4", "resource_route": "resource/start-apprenticeship-transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c3b17f2c6cb949fb440c09b6", "resource_route": "resource/start-apprenticeship-transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/start-apprenticeship-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "start-apprenticeship-primary", "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ce25a6bba9eeae725edc0440", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a323fd2714a64347714f9bc2" }, "route": "service-episode/start-apprenticeship-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", 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"episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1d977ed2e93447ff3c2fd00e", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/12ac269d79212918cb484b13", "resource_route": "resource/start-apprenticeship-start-apprenticeship-primary", "source_id": "start-apprenticeship-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3d6dfbcc0de7570986d0b297", "resource_route": "resource/start-apprenticeship-transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/12cee6e460fae5bb6ebccfe1", "resource_route": "resource/start-apprenticeship-transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/658d0889c2a994841fbfadce", "resource_route": "resource/start-apprenticeship-transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/start-apprenticeship-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "start-apprenticeship-primary", "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "start-apprenticeship", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Start an apprenticeship\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish adult work, civic and identity records** in the **Transition to adulthood** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSearch and apply for an apprenticeship, then retain the employer and training-provider agreements.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Find an apprenticeship](https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship)\n- [Scotland: Education and training in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Young people in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish adult work, civic and identity records**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish adult work, civic and identity records", "source": "services/start-apprenticeship.md", "title": "Start an apprenticeship within Establish adult work, civic and identity records" }, "process": { "id": "establish-adult-work-civic-and-identity-records", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-adult-work-civic-and-identity-records", "title": "Establish adult work, civic and identity records" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-careers-advice", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-careers-advice", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get careers advice" }, { "id": "obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain proof of age or identity" }, { "id": "receive-national-insurance-number", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-national-insurance-number", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive a National Insurance number" }, { "id": "register-to-vote-for-first-time", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-to-vote-for-first-time", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register to vote for the first time" }, { "id": "start-first-job", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-first-job", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start a first job" }, { "id": "verify-qualifications", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/verify-qualifications", "sequenced": false, "title": "Verify qualifications" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/845b5db26972c51acac94e8e", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c498ff484640e44e2736a9f5" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/start-apprenticeship", "situations": [ "A person wants paid work combined with approved training." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_apprenticeship_application_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "start-apprenticeship-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not recommend an employer, award a place or verify employment terms." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2d71b5c2848eaf011c35e830", "resource_id": "resource:start-apprenticeship:start-apprenticeship-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/start-apprenticeship-start-apprenticeship-primary", "summary": "Routes applicants to current England apprenticeship vacancies and applications.", "title": "Find an apprenticeship", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c1a99f5a1855930431611897", "resource_id": 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"resource:start-apprenticeship:transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/start-apprenticeship-transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes young people to current Northern Ireland services and responsibilities.", "title": "Young people in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Start an apprenticeship", "user_needs": [ "Find the applicable apprenticeship service and understand the employer-provider boundary." ] }, { "aliases": [ "baby vaccination schedule", "childhood immunisations" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "start-childhood-vaccinations-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } 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cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Start childhood vaccinations\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Start newborn healthcare** in the **Birth and the newborn period** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind the current national vaccination schedule and provider route for a child.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: NHS vaccinations and when to have them](https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/nhs-vaccinations-and-when-to-have-them/)\n- [Scotland: Register a birth in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/register-birth)\n- [Wales: Children and families in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/children-families)\n- [Northern Ireland: Registering and naming your baby](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/registering-and-naming-your-baby)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Start newborn healthcare**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Start newborn healthcare", "source": "services/start-childhood-vaccinations.md", "title": "Start childhood vaccinations within Start newborn healthcare" }, "process": { "id": "start-newborn-healthcare", "route": "enclosing-process/start-newborn-healthcare", "title": "Start newborn healthcare" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-neonatal-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-neonatal-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access neonatal care" }, { "id": "arrange-newborn-screening", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-newborn-screening", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange 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upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Start a first job\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish adult work, civic and identity records** in the **Transition to adulthood** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNavigate job search, offer, work-status, pay and tax handoffs when beginning paid employment.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Finding a job](https://www.gov.uk/browse/working/finding-job)\n- [Scotland: Education and training in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Young people in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish adult work, civic and identity records**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish adult work, civic and identity records", "source": "services/start-first-job.md", "title": "Start a first job within Establish adult work, civic and identity records" }, "process": { "id": "establish-adult-work-civic-and-identity-records", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-adult-work-civic-and-identity-records", "title": "Establish adult work, civic and identity records" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-careers-advice", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-careers-advice", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get careers advice" }, { "id": "obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity", "relationship": 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"supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "start-work-based-apprenticeship-primary", "finding-work-scotland-handoff", "finding-work-wales-handoff", "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "start-work-based-apprenticeship", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Start a work-based apprenticeship\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter fair and supported work** in the **Finding work and unemployment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind an apprenticeship vacancy and complete both employment and approved-training agreements.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Become an apprentice](https://www.gov.uk/become-apprentice)\n- [Scotland: Finding a job in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job)\n- [Wales: Employment support in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/employment-support)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter fair and supported work**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter fair and supported work", "source": "services/start-work-based-apprenticeship.md", "title": "Start a work-based apprenticeship within Enter fair and supported work" }, "process": { "id": "enter-fair-and-supported-work", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-fair-and-supported-work", "title": "Enter fair and supported work" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-access-to-work", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-access-to-work", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Access to Work" }, { "id": "get-disclosure-or-dbs-check", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-disclosure-or-dbs-check", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a disclosure or DBS check" }, { "id": "get-jobcentre-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-jobcentre-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Jobcentre support" }, { "id": "prove-right-to-work", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/prove-right-to-work", "sequenced": false, "title": "Prove the right to work" }, { "id": "resolve-recruitment-discrimination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/resolve-recruitment-discrimination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Resolve recruitment discrimination" }, { "id": "use-public-job-search", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-public-job-search", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use public job search" }, { "id": "volunteer-in-the-uk", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/volunteer-in-the-uk", "sequenced": false, "title": "Volunteer in the UK" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/539db093227411452ffdb1a9", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c66ba5fb7856fff4be51baeb" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/start-work-based-apprenticeship", "situations": [ "A person wants to enter paid work through an apprenticeship." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_apprenticeship_entry_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "start-work-based-apprenticeship-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not award a vacancy or verify the employer or provider agreement." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6969e7ec1c654c1813ad84e1", "resource_id": "resource:start-work-based-apprenticeship:start-work-based-apprenticeship-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/start-work-based-apprenticeship-start-work-based-apprenticeship-primary", "summary": "Introduces England apprenticeship search, employment and training routes.", "title": "Become an apprentice", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/become-apprentice" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c8c59d07ddee0c6dd9a52e8e", "resource_id": "resource:start-work-based-apprenticeship:finding-work-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/start-work-based-apprenticeship-finding-work-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish job-search and employment-support services.", "title": "Finding a job in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job" }, { "authority_role": "wales_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1d548367510f46f7325e8104", "resource_id": "resource:start-work-based-apprenticeship:finding-work-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/start-work-based-apprenticeship-finding-work-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh employability and skills support.", "title": "Employment support in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/employment-support" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/870adc5cebb1095310cb0a47", "resource_id": "resource:start-work-based-apprenticeship:finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/start-work-based-apprenticeship-finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland employment services and rights.", "title": "Employment in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Start a work-based apprenticeship", "user_needs": [ "Understand the employer, training-provider and public funding handoffs." ] }, { "aliases": [ "study abroad programme", "volunteer abroad", "overseas placement" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "study-or-volunteer-overseas-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": 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"organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "study-or-volunteer-overseas-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Confirm the programme, safeguarding, entry, health, insurance, funding and emergency arrangements with the responsible institution and destination authorities.", "domain": { "id": "holidays-volunteering-and-living-overseas", "route": "life-course-domain/holidays-volunteering-and-living-overseas", "title": "Holidays, volunteering and living overseas" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A learner or volunteer is considering an organised period overseas.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Confirm the programme, safeguarding, entry, health, insurance, funding and emergency arrangements with the responsible institution and destination authorities.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6c6c168775a2eedfc44fb5ab", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4a35497131b525a1d00d0a89" }, "route": "service-episode/study-or-volunteer-overseas-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/489240ca1f6240096832811c", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e75dc894475821c86c588295", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/27cd67035a4fa71b20ca0a3b", "resource_route": "resource/study-or-volunteer-overseas-study-or-volunteer-overseas-primary", "source_id": "study-or-volunteer-overseas-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/study-or-volunteer-overseas-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "study-or-volunteer-overseas-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to study or volunteer overseas and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Confirm the programme, safeguarding, entry, health, insurance, funding and emergency arrangements with the responsible institution and destination authorities." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4f6a96682b04b1e45377d495", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0f30f956a9facd7ba3cd9e75", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d95e1e8af398c5c91d46778c", "resource_route": "resource/study-or-volunteer-overseas-study-or-volunteer-overseas-primary", "source_id": "study-or-volunteer-overseas-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/study-or-volunteer-overseas-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "study-or-volunteer-overseas-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c0167f72a6763897ed90da2a", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/42b7e22992a6748ae92ddad2" }, "route": "service-episode/study-or-volunteer-overseas-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e508e4602bec57faa39eed37", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5f4c32623715960c11b4f7d7", "resource_route": "resource/study-or-volunteer-overseas-study-or-volunteer-overseas-primary", "source_id": "study-or-volunteer-overseas-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/study-or-volunteer-overseas-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "study-or-volunteer-overseas-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "study-or-volunteer-overseas", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Study or volunteer overseas\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Live, work and get help overseas** in the **Holidays, volunteering and living overseas** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nConfirm the programme, safeguarding, entry, health, insurance, funding and emergency arrangements with the responsible institution and destination authorities.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Turing Scheme](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/turing-scheme)\n- [Scotland: Turing Scheme](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/turing-scheme)\n- [Wales: Turing Scheme](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/turing-scheme)\n- [Northern Ireland: Turing Scheme](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/turing-scheme)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Live, work and get help overseas**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Live, work and get help overseas", "source": "services/study-or-volunteer-overseas.md", "title": "Study or volunteer overseas within Live, work and get help overseas" }, "process": { "id": "live-work-and-get-help-overseas", "route": "enclosing-process/live-work-and-get-help-overseas", "title": "Live, work and get help overseas" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-consular-assistance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-consular-assistance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get consular assistance" }, { "id": "get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get help after a serious incident abroad" }, { "id": "manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad", "sequenced": false, "title": "Manage tax, National Insurance, benefits and pensions abroad" }, { "id": "obtain-emergency-travel-document", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-emergency-travel-document", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain an emergency travel document" }, { "id": "work-overseas", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/work-overseas", "sequenced": false, "title": "Work overseas" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/82c86477045987ee01f1d358", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3d46aae8daca47ff05ff776b" }, "review": 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"resource/study-or-volunteer-overseas-study-or-volunteer-overseas-primary", "summary": "Provides current UK provider-led international-placement funding and guidance, including study, work and some volunteering placements.", "title": "Turing Scheme", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/turing-scheme" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Study or volunteer overseas", "user_needs": [ "Place the placement within travel and institutional processes without endorsing a provider." ] }, { "aliases": [ "looked-after child education", "virtual school support" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "support-child-in-care-education-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "support-child-in-care-education-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", 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"Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/46027a1df6181560617fa1b8", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/57e35d40f8dc2cbfe6a602bd", "resource_route": "resource/support-child-in-care-education-support-child-in-care-education-primary", "source_id": "support-child-in-care-education-primary" }, 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"supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "support-child-in-care-education-primary", "school-years-scotland-handoff", "school-years-wales-handoff", "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "support-child-in-care-education", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Support a child in care in education\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Receive school support and outcomes** in the **School years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind the accountable education support around a child looked after by a local authority.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Promoting the education of looked-after children](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/promoting-the-education-of-looked-after-children)\n- [Scotland: School education in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Receive school support and outcomes**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Receive school support and outcomes", "source": "services/support-child-in-care-education.md", "title": "Support a child in care in education within Receive school support and outcomes" }, "process": { "id": "receive-school-support-and-outcomes", "route": "enclosing-process/receive-school-support-and-outcomes", "title": "Receive school support and outcomes" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-school-health", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-school-health", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access school health support" }, { "id": "challenge-school-exclusion", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/challenge-school-exclusion", "sequenced": false, "title": "Challenge a school exclusion" }, { "id": "get-school-send-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-school-send-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get school SEND support" }, { "id": "report-school-safeguarding-concern", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-school-safeguarding-concern", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a school safeguarding concern" }, { "id": "sit-public-examinations", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/sit-public-examinations", "sequenced": false, "title": "Sit public examinations" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4bcca99c576bfeaa810c644e", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/84d9048e34575f945cf60a25" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/support-child-in-care-education", "situations": [ "A looked-after child needs coordinated education planning or support." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_looked_after_child_education_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "support-child-in-care-education-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine an individual child's plan, placement or safeguarding action." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6502a87f797727338eff958f", "resource_id": "resource:support-child-in-care-education:support-child-in-care-education-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/support-child-in-care-education-support-child-in-care-education-primary", "summary": "Publishes the England statutory-guidance handoff for looked-after children's education.", "title": "Promoting the education of looked-after children", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/promoting-the-education-of-looked-after-children" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5285de09ab355dbb43705b55", "resource_id": "resource:support-child-in-care-education:school-years-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/support-child-in-care-education-school-years-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish school education services and support.", "title": "School education in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a093d0189348f40454b69a81", "resource_id": "resource:support-child-in-care-education:school-years-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/support-child-in-care-education-school-years-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh education services, policy and support.", "title": "Education and skills in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/education-skills" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_school_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific eligibility rule, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6e79fb4fa047cef6b850e753", "resource_id": "resource:support-child-in-care-education:school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/support-child-in-care-education-school-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland education services and support.", "title": "Education in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Support a child in care in education", "user_needs": [ "Identify the school, social-care and virtual-school roles and escalation route." ] }, { "aliases": [ "statutory adoption leave", "adoption pay" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "take-adoption-leave-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "take-adoption-leave-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1f9cdad18758be731cda2625", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6eebcfa7dffecdf1915f5e2b", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b3ed291596b560c42346b5c7", "resource_route": "resource/take-adoption-leave-take-adoption-leave-primary", "source_id": "take-adoption-leave-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c88bb1224504a34993505649", "resource_route": "resource/take-adoption-leave-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/take-adoption-leave-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and 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confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/738ec97e19edd8f53021e480", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e4dbbde2335bbe695a9e7bf9", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1d7d728071a858c84b8cf417", "resource_route": "resource/take-adoption-leave-take-adoption-leave-primary", "source_id": "take-adoption-leave-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/92647917b956049bc1f6b768", "resource_route": "resource/take-adoption-leave-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/take-adoption-leave-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "take-adoption-leave-primary", "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c4c2da3e28192e3e8690c729", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1e4892f2bcb1685667c68613" }, "route": "service-episode/take-adoption-leave-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a88449d61cef81f2142a1512", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3059f9db47d0513d11d26600", "resource_route": "resource/take-adoption-leave-take-adoption-leave-primary", "source_id": "take-adoption-leave-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8511e68e649db5692da9f663", "resource_route": "resource/take-adoption-leave-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/take-adoption-leave-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "take-adoption-leave-primary", "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "take-adoption-leave", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Take adoption leave\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Adoption, fostering and surrogacy** in the **Before birth and starting a family** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNavigate leave and pay information when a child is placed for adoption or through an applicable parental-order route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Adoption pay and leave](https://www.gov.uk/adoption-pay-leave)\n- [Scotland: Adoption pay and leave](https://www.gov.uk/adoption-pay-leave)\n- [Wales: Adoption pay and leave](https://www.gov.uk/adoption-pay-leave)\n- [Northern Ireland: Family, home and community in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/family-home-and-community)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Adoption, fostering and surrogacy**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Adoption, fostering and surrogacy", "source": "services/take-adoption-leave.md", "title": "Take adoption leave within Adoption, fostering and surrogacy" }, "process": { "id": "adoption-fostering-and-surrogacy", "route": "enclosing-process/adoption-fostering-and-surrogacy", "title": "Adoption, fostering and surrogacy" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-adoption", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-adoption", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange adoption" }, { "id": "become-a-foster-carer", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/become-a-foster-carer", "sequenced": false, "title": "Become a foster carer" }, { "id": "pursue-surrogacy-parenthood", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/pursue-surrogacy-parenthood", "sequenced": false, "title": "Pursue surrogacy parenthood" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/da66d8c38624b8cb7b354533", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1a352179768f2c578d27a900" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/take-adoption-leave", "situations": [ "An employee needs to plan leave around an adoption placement or another source-defined qualifying event." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_adoption_leave_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "take-adoption-leave-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Northern Ireland employment law and case-specific eligibility require their own current route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Business and Trade", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/91923c441f9d29ab00754ccf", "resource_id": "resource:take-adoption-leave:take-adoption-leave-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/take-adoption-leave-take-adoption-leave-primary", "summary": "Routes employees in Great Britain through current statutory adoption leave and pay information.", "title": "Adoption pay and leave", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/adoption-pay-leave" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_family_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7f4c96e6d76a2a4e1ffabca8", "resource_id": "resource:take-adoption-leave:before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/take-adoption-leave-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Northern Ireland to current family, pregnancy, birth and local support services.", "title": "Family, home and community in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/family-home-and-community" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Take adoption leave", "user_needs": [ "Find current adoption leave, notice, pay and employment-dispute information." ] }, { "aliases": [ "statutory maternity leave", "maternity pay and leave" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "take-maternity-leave-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "take-maternity-leave-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "take-maternity-leave-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "take-maternity-leave-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "take-maternity-leave-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "take-maternity-leave-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Navigate notice, leave and pay information for an employee taking maternity leave.", "domain": { "id": "before-birth-and-starting-family", "route": "life-course-domain/before-birth-and-starting-family", "title": "Before birth and starting a family" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "An employee needs to tell an employer about pregnancy and plan maternity leave or pay.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Navigate notice, leave and pay information for an employee taking maternity leave.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8b283be5850fd0e1f27f5d4f", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e13186438d6af8791eec62da" }, "route": "service-episode/take-maternity-leave-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b7f5926f0d32086fa10fc430", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8bee7637ffd2e7cb9bea6313", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/94714da9068d2c6b14cea68f", "resource_route": "resource/take-maternity-leave-take-maternity-leave-primary", "source_id": "take-maternity-leave-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/abd63760354fb2f7f04b2bfc", "resource_route": "resource/take-maternity-leave-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/take-maternity-leave-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "take-maternity-leave-primary", "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to take maternity leave and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Navigate notice, leave and pay information for an employee taking maternity leave." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5838b9517c8725d9ae5fa33f", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/467654fffc41524575546820", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/36ac92f15e64dc860cff9fda", "resource_route": "resource/take-maternity-leave-take-maternity-leave-primary", "source_id": "take-maternity-leave-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/673917c438c03df1b12aaaf6", "resource_route": "resource/take-maternity-leave-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/take-maternity-leave-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "take-maternity-leave-primary", "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e2f0990b8672df3eaec25df0", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a0ff655cf3e4719cfdf57eb7" }, "route": "service-episode/take-maternity-leave-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/af188ab0e812d948a00d9f64", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7926cc3ce0bc8bbbdca96802", "resource_route": "resource/take-maternity-leave-take-maternity-leave-primary", "source_id": "take-maternity-leave-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/be405086f70ac5f74841bec8", "resource_route": "resource/take-maternity-leave-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/take-maternity-leave-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "take-maternity-leave-primary", "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "take-maternity-leave", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Take maternity leave\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support** in the **Before birth and starting a family** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNavigate notice, leave and pay information for an employee taking maternity leave.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Maternity pay and leave](https://www.gov.uk/maternity-pay-leave)\n- [Scotland: Maternity pay and leave](https://www.gov.uk/maternity-pay-leave)\n- [Wales: Maternity pay and leave](https://www.gov.uk/maternity-pay-leave)\n- [Northern Ireland: Family, home and community in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/family-home-and-community)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support", "source": "services/take-maternity-leave.md", "title": "Take maternity leave within Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support" }, "process": { "id": "pregnancy-maternity-and-workplace-support", "route": "enclosing-process/pregnancy-maternity-and-workplace-support", "title": "Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-fertility-and-reproductive-health", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access fertility and reproductive health" }, { "id": "claim-maternity-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-maternity-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Maternity Allowance" }, { "id": "get-healthy-start-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-healthy-start-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Healthy Start support" }, { "id": "get-pregnancy-workplace-protection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-pregnancy-workplace-protection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get pregnancy workplace protection" }, { "id": "receive-maternity-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-maternity-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive maternity care" }, { "id": "start-antenatal-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-antenatal-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start antenatal care" }, { "id": "take-paternity-or-partner-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-paternity-or-partner-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take paternity or partner leave" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a99434901505940d77c8f78b", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/322dcebf835981715025d29f" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/take-maternity-leave", "situations": [ "An employee needs to tell an employer about pregnancy and plan maternity leave or pay." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_maternity_leave_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "take-maternity-leave-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Northern Ireland employment law and individual employment status require their own current route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Business and Trade", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4e75ce164e8e2481eb13670a", "resource_id": "resource:take-maternity-leave:take-maternity-leave-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/take-maternity-leave-take-maternity-leave-primary", "summary": "Routes employees in Great Britain through current statutory maternity leave and pay information.", "title": "Maternity pay and leave", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/maternity-pay-leave" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_family_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/18e1aca1c97479a0274445e4", "resource_id": "resource:take-maternity-leave:before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/take-maternity-leave-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Northern Ireland to current family, pregnancy, birth and local support services.", "title": "Family, home and community in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/family-home-and-community" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Take maternity leave", "user_needs": [ "Find the current employment route, notice requirements and dispute handoff." ] }, { "aliases": [ "unpaid parental leave", "time off to care for child" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "take-parental-leave-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "take-parental-leave-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "take-parental-leave-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "take-parental-leave-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "take-parental-leave-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "take-parental-leave-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Use the statutory parental-leave notice route and respond to postponement or dispute outputs.", "domain": { "id": "employment", "route": "life-course-domain/employment", "title": "Employment" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "An employee needs time away from work to care for a child.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Use the statutory parental-leave notice route and respond to postponement or dispute outputs.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/56b67289c5f30112981a4d62", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/97687e4ffd1664b6fda82418" }, "route": "service-episode/take-parental-leave-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1f18fac2a74d8926981d0b68", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3f801d2c60c98eeadda1bf60", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/68b1c28b830e820685a2ffd9", "resource_route": "resource/take-parental-leave-take-parental-leave-primary", "source_id": "take-parental-leave-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/642940ed322dd6fe025753ec", "resource_route": "resource/take-parental-leave-employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/take-parental-leave-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "take-parental-leave-primary", "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to take parental leave and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the statutory parental-leave notice route and respond to postponement or dispute outputs." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e050df88d484496e5e332d92", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/312435f8aae3df9633eed7af", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/296259f3ccafd82509139d06", "resource_route": "resource/take-parental-leave-take-parental-leave-primary", "source_id": "take-parental-leave-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1372aaba0556d4ea09c5e976", "resource_route": "resource/take-parental-leave-employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/take-parental-leave-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "take-parental-leave-primary", "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0ff225e85dd3b2f98da505a6", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5c9507adabeea799e3c14706" }, "route": "service-episode/take-parental-leave-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4a15221c6387e603fb8f85b7", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/61a25cf44b0aa33d43771d65", "resource_route": "resource/take-parental-leave-take-parental-leave-primary", "source_id": "take-parental-leave-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/69f4c8ec07838f1024d9c731", "resource_route": "resource/take-parental-leave-employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/take-parental-leave-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "take-parental-leave-primary", "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "take-parental-leave", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Take parental leave\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish employment terms, pay and leave** in the **Employment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the statutory parental-leave notice route and respond to postponement or dispute outputs.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Unpaid parental leave](https://www.gov.uk/parental-leave)\n- [Scotland: Unpaid parental leave](https://www.gov.uk/parental-leave)\n- [Wales: Unpaid parental leave](https://www.gov.uk/parental-leave)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish employment terms, pay and leave**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish employment terms, pay and leave", "source": "services/take-parental-leave.md", "title": "Take parental leave within Establish employment terms, pay and leave" }, "process": { "id": "establish-employment-terms-pay-and-leave", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-employment-terms-pay-and-leave", "title": "Establish employment terms, pay and leave" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "check-employment-status", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-employment-status", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check employment status" }, { "id": "get-statutory-sick-pay", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-statutory-sick-pay", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Statutory Sick Pay" }, { "id": "join-workplace-pension", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/join-workplace-pension", "sequenced": false, "title": "Join a workplace pension" }, { "id": "pay-paye-and-national-insurance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/pay-paye-and-national-insurance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Pay PAYE and National Insurance" }, { "id": "receive-national-minimum-wage", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-national-minimum-wage", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive the National Minimum Wage" }, { "id": "receive-written-employment-particulars", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-written-employment-particulars", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive written employment particulars" }, { "id": "take-statutory-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-statutory-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take statutory leave" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b49437e314599fd2d93e60e0", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9c003f67b78e27fcafef688a" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/take-parental-leave", "situations": [ "An employee needs time away from work to care for a child." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_parental_leave_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "take-parental-leave-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide eligibility or whether an employer response is lawful." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Business and Trade", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6170e65b0a258afc1f80d102", "resource_id": "resource:take-parental-leave:take-parental-leave-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/take-parental-leave-take-parental-leave-primary", "summary": "Explains Great Britain unpaid parental-leave rights and notice.", "title": "Unpaid parental leave", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/parental-leave" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_employment_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain employment guidance does not establish Northern Ireland law or procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": 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"route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "take-paternity-or-partner-leave-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "take-paternity-or-partner-leave-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "take-paternity-or-partner-leave-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "take-paternity-or-partner-leave-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "take-paternity-or-partner-leave-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Navigate current notice, leave and pay information for an eligible parent or partner after birth or placement.", "domain": { "id": "before-birth-and-starting-family", "route": "life-course-domain/before-birth-and-starting-family", "title": "Before birth and starting a family" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A parent or partner needs to plan time away from work around a birth or adoption placement.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Navigate current notice, leave and pay information for an eligible parent or partner after birth or placement.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8ad5da112b323e47ac9fe9ff", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b88961e4ee019da37a3eb43e" }, "route": "service-episode/take-paternity-or-partner-leave-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A 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"before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/take-paternity-or-partner-leave-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "take-paternity-or-partner-leave-primary", "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to take paternity or partner leave and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Navigate current notice, leave and pay information for an eligible parent or partner after birth or placement." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b2ec4c9969390faa22078f26", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/429d276e21381ee0f15ca3d0", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7d3cd2e87173406fd20c87a6", "resource_route": "resource/take-paternity-or-partner-leave-take-paternity-or-partner-leave-primary", "source_id": "take-paternity-or-partner-leave-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/63e007d859b6e8201f135862", "resource_route": "resource/take-paternity-or-partner-leave-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/take-paternity-or-partner-leave-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "take-paternity-or-partner-leave-primary", "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ffd5b63ea2e69f3b110fc165", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a73a9a45b2f6e63dda919583" }, "route": "service-episode/take-paternity-or-partner-leave-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f8cf53c8ed14a4f2b75743a4", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c938fcd1d37e95d204593559", "resource_route": "resource/take-paternity-or-partner-leave-take-paternity-or-partner-leave-primary", "source_id": "take-paternity-or-partner-leave-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4cf401fb4f8ced656150760a", "resource_route": "resource/take-paternity-or-partner-leave-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/take-paternity-or-partner-leave-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "take-paternity-or-partner-leave-primary", "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "take-paternity-or-partner-leave", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Take paternity or partner leave\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support** in the **Before birth and starting a family** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNavigate current notice, leave and pay information for an eligible parent or partner after birth or placement.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Paternity pay and leave](https://www.gov.uk/paternity-pay-leave)\n- [Scotland: Paternity pay and leave](https://www.gov.uk/paternity-pay-leave)\n- [Wales: Paternity pay and leave](https://www.gov.uk/paternity-pay-leave)\n- [Northern Ireland: Family, home and community in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/family-home-and-community)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support", "source": "services/take-paternity-or-partner-leave.md", "title": "Take paternity or partner leave within Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support" }, "process": { "id": "pregnancy-maternity-and-workplace-support", "route": "enclosing-process/pregnancy-maternity-and-workplace-support", "title": "Pregnancy, maternity and workplace support" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-fertility-and-reproductive-health", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-fertility-and-reproductive-health", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access fertility and reproductive health" }, { "id": "claim-maternity-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-maternity-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Maternity Allowance" }, { "id": "get-healthy-start-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-healthy-start-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Healthy Start support" }, { "id": "get-pregnancy-workplace-protection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-pregnancy-workplace-protection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get pregnancy workplace protection" }, { "id": "receive-maternity-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-maternity-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive maternity care" }, { "id": "start-antenatal-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-antenatal-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start antenatal care" }, { "id": "take-maternity-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-maternity-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take maternity leave" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/47023c7a498defe7c7529f59", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d328fd80bd43094e3ecd48f0" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/take-paternity-or-partner-leave", "situations": [ "A parent or partner needs to plan time away from work around a birth or adoption placement." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_paternity_leave_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "take-paternity-or-partner-leave-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Northern Ireland employment law and individual eligibility require their own current route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Business and Trade", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1f0210feaf50e51d0d43c42b", "resource_id": "resource:take-paternity-or-partner-leave:take-paternity-or-partner-leave-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/take-paternity-or-partner-leave-take-paternity-or-partner-leave-primary", "summary": "Routes employees in Great Britain through current statutory paternity leave and pay information.", "title": "Paternity pay and leave", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/paternity-pay-leave" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_family_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cf7d16afad636a515a998a5a", "resource_id": "resource:take-paternity-or-partner-leave:before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/take-paternity-or-partner-leave-before-birth-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Northern Ireland to current family, pregnancy, birth and local support services.", "title": "Family, home and community in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/family-home-and-community" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Take paternity or partner leave", "user_needs": [ "Find the current employment route and understand where status or eligibility is decided." ] }, { "aliases": [ "holiday entitlement", "time off work rights" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "take-statutory-leave-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "take-statutory-leave-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "take-statutory-leave-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "take-statutory-leave-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "take-statutory-leave-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "take-statutory-leave-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Identify the relevant statutory time-off route and give the employer the current notice or evidence.", "domain": { "id": "employment", "route": "life-course-domain/employment", "title": "Employment" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A worker needs annual leave or another statutory period away from work.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Identify the relevant statutory time-off route and give the employer the current notice or evidence.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/db52ec8f99e37b7852da885b", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fcb34eda5964a410b2f4d802" }, "route": "service-episode/take-statutory-leave-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/247e6d18b457add30e7a7f35", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/81844630ebef62ec139e8f43", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7e7c6a066919a35007b2c9c9", "resource_route": "resource/take-statutory-leave-take-statutory-leave-primary", "source_id": "take-statutory-leave-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/03aaf9986b170c5b8b52058c", "resource_route": "resource/take-statutory-leave-employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/take-statutory-leave-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "take-statutory-leave-primary", "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to take statutory leave and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Identify the relevant statutory time-off route and give the employer the current notice or evidence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2733b6cf99a52e6dd9f39529", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b8158649d4d35e3e400f3168", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5d9c0a108dffb702edffd5bb", "resource_route": "resource/take-statutory-leave-take-statutory-leave-primary", "source_id": "take-statutory-leave-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1d49b7a45ad677ee8ba13bbe", "resource_route": "resource/take-statutory-leave-employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/take-statutory-leave-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "take-statutory-leave-primary", "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/409ab8d8b21240cbae02e9db", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8f6313025fd65fe7e60d89ff" }, "route": "service-episode/take-statutory-leave-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/58d198910b1babb9546ee01c", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b62c94d31efc4042d54220ee", "resource_route": "resource/take-statutory-leave-take-statutory-leave-primary", "source_id": "take-statutory-leave-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/13d9592ce31356504d6f2773", "resource_route": "resource/take-statutory-leave-employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/take-statutory-leave-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "take-statutory-leave-primary", "employment-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "take-statutory-leave", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Take statutory leave\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish employment terms, pay and leave** in the **Employment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the relevant statutory time-off route and give the employer the current notice or evidence.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Holidays and time off](https://www.gov.uk/browse/working/time-off)\n- [Scotland: Holidays and time off](https://www.gov.uk/browse/working/time-off)\n- [Wales: Holidays and time off](https://www.gov.uk/browse/working/time-off)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish employment terms, pay and leave**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish employment terms, pay and leave", "source": "services/take-statutory-leave.md", "title": "Take statutory leave within Establish employment terms, pay and leave" }, "process": { "id": "establish-employment-terms-pay-and-leave", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-employment-terms-pay-and-leave", "title": "Establish employment terms, pay and leave" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "check-employment-status", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/check-employment-status", "sequenced": false, "title": "Check employment status" }, { "id": "get-statutory-sick-pay", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-statutory-sick-pay", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Statutory Sick Pay" }, { "id": "join-workplace-pension", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/join-workplace-pension", "sequenced": false, "title": "Join a workplace pension" }, { "id": "pay-paye-and-national-insurance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/pay-paye-and-national-insurance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Pay PAYE and National Insurance" }, { "id": "receive-national-minimum-wage", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-national-minimum-wage", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive the National Minimum Wage" }, { "id": "receive-written-employment-particulars", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-written-employment-particulars", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive written employment particulars" }, { "id": "take-parental-leave", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/take-parental-leave", "sequenced": false, "title": "Take parental leave" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/eb16eb10d279091c2551279b", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/25b052323492f8884f11bef8" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/take-statutory-leave", "situations": [ "A worker needs annual leave or another statutory period away from work." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "great_britain_leave_discovery_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "take-statutory-leave-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not calculate entitlement or decide whether an absence is protected." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Business and Trade", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c6e9e1b61bf71844f2d62979", "resource_id": "resource:take-statutory-leave:take-statutory-leave-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/take-statutory-leave-take-statutory-leave-primary", "summary": "Routes workers to current Great Britain holiday and time-off rights.", "title": "Holidays and time off", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/browse/working/time-off" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_employment_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain employment guidance does not establish Northern Ireland law or procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/114ef47850ac7f4394d738eb", "resource_id": "resource:take-statutory-leave:employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/take-statutory-leave-employment-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland employment rights and services.", "title": "Employment in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Take statutory leave", "user_needs": [ "Distinguish leave types, employer procedure and dispute routes." ] }, { "aliases": [ "vehicle tax", "declare car off road", "renew road tax" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "tax-or-sorn-vehicle-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "tax-or-sorn-vehicle-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Use the current vehicle record to tax the vehicle or make the applicable statutory off-road notification and retain confirmation.", "domain": { "id": "public-and-private-transport", "route": "life-course-domain/public-and-private-transport", "title": "Public and private transport" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A registered keeper needs to tax a vehicle or declare that it will be kept off public roads.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Use the current vehicle record to tax the vehicle or make the applicable statutory off-road notification and retain confirmation.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/10d33f1e1ea55e87aa753a33", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ccaa77f776a7f6b1c0163c79" }, "route": "service-episode/tax-or-sorn-vehicle-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5370bd5f36636cb5efbada0d", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a74ee9065c3bbcacf5e6baf9", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fe93bc3cdf53ef17e59327b4", "resource_route": "resource/tax-or-sorn-vehicle-tax-or-sorn-vehicle-primary", "source_id": "tax-or-sorn-vehicle-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/89e76653540923db715549a9", "resource_route": "resource/tax-or-sorn-vehicle-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2b7e2239580fbe0c0479495c", "resource_route": "resource/tax-or-sorn-vehicle-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4446a24159e6ae8a995babda", "resource_route": "resource/tax-or-sorn-vehicle-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/tax-or-sorn-vehicle-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "tax-or-sorn-vehicle-primary", "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to tax or make a sorn for a vehicle and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the current vehicle record to tax the vehicle or make the applicable statutory off-road notification and retain confirmation." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/814f772f0377b4b94d8414c7", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f697d85916730ec4a4be7cdc", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9d181648e83b811a9707d492", "resource_route": "resource/tax-or-sorn-vehicle-tax-or-sorn-vehicle-primary", "source_id": "tax-or-sorn-vehicle-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3dbc6526252e38e368d17c26", "resource_route": "resource/tax-or-sorn-vehicle-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/da82ae58b7df1cb2a3cb40f3", "resource_route": "resource/tax-or-sorn-vehicle-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bb8eee9c899a39091856f032", "resource_route": "resource/tax-or-sorn-vehicle-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/tax-or-sorn-vehicle-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "tax-or-sorn-vehicle-primary", "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a78757297313c80b7ff05814", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/06a7af93c86afb59c33e857a" }, "route": "service-episode/tax-or-sorn-vehicle-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d7d05a1780ac1ff7bbe87ee2", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6d919877a1cbfb8f7f3d8833", "resource_route": "resource/tax-or-sorn-vehicle-tax-or-sorn-vehicle-primary", "source_id": "tax-or-sorn-vehicle-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/96ff6633492a2aa7395889f6", "resource_route": "resource/tax-or-sorn-vehicle-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4dfa8e2bc816294fb56ca916", "resource_route": "resource/tax-or-sorn-vehicle-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d9947290cf14cc535c3c8929", "resource_route": "resource/tax-or-sorn-vehicle-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/tax-or-sorn-vehicle-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "tax-or-sorn-vehicle-primary", "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "tax-or-sorn-vehicle", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Tax or make a SORN for a vehicle\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Own and use a road vehicle** in the **Public and private transport** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the current vehicle record to tax the vehicle or make the applicable statutory off-road notification and retain confirmation.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Tax your vehicle](https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax)\n- [Scotland: Transport and travel in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport)\n- [Wales: Transport in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/transport)\n- [Northern Ireland: Travel, transport and roads in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/travel-transport-and-roads)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Own and use a road vehicle**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Own and use a road vehicle", "source": "services/tax-or-sorn-vehicle.md", "title": "Tax or make a SORN for a vehicle within Own and use a road vehicle" }, "process": { "id": "own-and-use-a-road-vehicle", "route": "enclosing-process/own-and-use-a-road-vehicle", "title": "Own and use a road vehicle" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-parking-permit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-parking-permit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a parking permit" }, { "id": "obtain-mot-test", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-mot-test", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain an MOT test" }, { "id": "obtain-motor-insurance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-motor-insurance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain motor insurance" }, { "id": "pay-clean-air-zone-charge", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/pay-clean-air-zone-charge", "sequenced": false, "title": "Pay a clean air zone charge" }, { "id": "register-vehicle", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-vehicle", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register a vehicle" }, { "id": "report-road-collision", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-road-collision", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a road collision" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f5126e29523ca1698b85560d", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/04c894430ce713824ffb0997" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/tax-or-sorn-vehicle", "situations": [ "A registered keeper needs to tax a vehicle or declare that it will be kept off public roads." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_vehicle_tax_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "tax-or-sorn-vehicle-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide exemption, keeper liability, roadworthiness, insurance or enforcement." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/49da072ecebfecef6c6d7b54", "resource_id": "resource:tax-or-sorn-vehicle:tax-or-sorn-vehicle-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/tax-or-sorn-vehicle-tax-or-sorn-vehicle-primary", "summary": "Provides the current vehicle-tax service and links to SORN and exemption routes.", "title": "Tax your vehicle", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England concession, permit or operator-licensing route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/14072f1fb66fcd52e3536a8a", "resource_id": "resource:tax-or-sorn-vehicle:public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/tax-or-sorn-vehicle-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish public, accessible, local and road-transport services.", "title": "Transport and travel in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport" }, { "authority_role": "wales_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine a local permit, concession, operator licence or journey accessibility." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3499dcda9c834cf2272e6183", "resource_id": "resource:tax-or-sorn-vehicle:public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/tax-or-sorn-vehicle-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh transport policy, concessions and service information.", "title": "Transport in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/transport" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain vehicle and local-transport pages do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/025d82cc83fa3399c88639e7", "resource_id": "resource:tax-or-sorn-vehicle:public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/tax-or-sorn-vehicle-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland public-transport, motoring and road services.", "title": "Travel, transport and roads in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/travel-transport-and-roads" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Tax or make a SORN for a vehicle", "user_needs": [ "Select tax or SORN correctly and preserve insurance, MOT, keeper and enforcement boundaries." ] }, { "aliases": [ "move from children to adult care", "transition social care assessment" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "transition-to-adult-social-care-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "transition-to-adult-social-care-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], 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national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Transition to adult social care\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Move into independent mobility, health and care** in the **Transition to adulthood** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nNavigate assessment and planning when ongoing support moves from children's to adult services.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Apply for a needs assessment by social services](https://www.gov.uk/apply-needs-assessment-social-services)\n- [Scotland: Education and training in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Young people in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Move into independent mobility, health and care**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Move into independent mobility, health and care", "source": "services/transition-to-adult-social-care.md", "title": "Transition to adult social care within Move into independent mobility, health and care" }, "process": { "id": "move-into-independent-mobility-health-and-care", "route": "enclosing-process/move-into-independent-mobility-health-and-care", "title": "Move into independent mobility, health and care" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-child-trust-fund", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-child-trust-fund", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access a Child Trust Fund" }, { "id": "consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person", "sequenced": false, "title": "Consent to healthcare as a young person" }, { "id": "get-leaving-care-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-leaving-care-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get leaving-care support" }, { "id": "learn-to-drive-car", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/learn-to-drive-car", "sequenced": false, "title": "Learn to drive a car" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3508bc6da353634994d63c63", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2f2b1b8521dd171343c09c2f" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/transition-to-adult-social-care", "situations": [ "A young person with care or support needs is approaching adult-service thresholds." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_adult_social_care_assessment_discovery_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-to-adult-social-care-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess need, determine eligibility or create a care plan." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department of Health and Social Care", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5a7c85fd1f342a16e1224b6b", "resource_id": "resource:transition-to-adult-social-care:transition-to-adult-social-care-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/transition-to-adult-social-care-transition-to-adult-social-care-primary", "summary": "Routes an England applicant to the council adult-social-care assessment service.", "title": "Apply for a needs assessment by social services", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/apply-needs-assessment-social-services" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/48873bcabd926268e57d8793", "resource_id": "resource:transition-to-adult-social-care:transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/transition-to-adult-social-care-transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish education, training and transition services.", "title": "Education and training in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training" }, { "authority_role": "wales_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f7fe6365c0951af845a7c81d", "resource_id": "resource:transition-to-adult-social-care:transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/transition-to-adult-social-care-transition-adulthood-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh learning, skills and transition services.", "title": "Education and skills in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/education-skills" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transition_service_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/82dfc0111e7434b2f6fa687d", "resource_id": "resource:transition-to-adult-social-care:transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/transition-to-adult-social-care-transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes young people to current Northern Ireland services 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"death-bereavement-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "update-property-records-after-death", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Update property records after death\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Identify and administer an estate** in the **Death and bereavement** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nEstablish the surviving-owner or estate authority and submit the applicable land-registration evidence and forms after obtaining advice for trusts, disputes or unregistered land.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Update property records when someone dies](https://www.gov.uk/update-property-records-someone-dies)\n- [Scotland: Births, deaths and family in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family)\n- [Wales: Update property records when someone dies](https://www.gov.uk/update-property-records-someone-dies)\n- [Northern Ireland: What to do when someone dies](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/births-deaths-baby-loss-marriages-and-civil-partnerships/death-and)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Identify and administer an estate**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Identify and administer an estate", "source": "services/update-property-records-after-death.md", "title": "Update property records after death within Identify and administer an estate" }, "process": { "id": "identify-and-administer-an-estate", "route": "enclosing-process/identify-and-administer-an-estate", "title": "Identify and administer an estate" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "administer-an-estate", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/administer-an-estate", "sequenced": false, "title": "Administer an estate" }, { "id": "locate-or-prove-will", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": 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clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Use children's centres\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Arrange childcare and early education** in the **Early years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nLocate the current local children's-centre or family-hub offer and follow its service-specific access route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Find a Sure Start Children's Centre](https://www.gov.uk/find-sure-start-childrens-centre)\n- [Scotland: Help with childcare costs in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/childcare-costs-help)\n- [Wales: Childcare in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/childcare)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Arrange childcare and early education**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Arrange childcare and early education", "source": "services/use-childrens-centres.md", "title": "Use children's centres within Arrange childcare and early education" }, "process": { "id": "arrange-childcare-and-early-education", "route": "enclosing-process/arrange-childcare-and-early-education", "title": "Arrange childcare and early education" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "find-registered-childcare", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/find-registered-childcare", "sequenced": false, "title": "Find registered childcare" }, { "id": "get-childcare-cost-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-childcare-cost-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get childcare cost support" }, { "id": "get-funded-early-education", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-funded-early-education", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get funded early education" }, { "id": "register-as-childminder", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-as-childminder", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register as a childminder" }, { "id": "use-public-library-child-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-public-library-child-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use public library child services" }, { "id": "use-tax-free-childcare", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-tax-free-childcare", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use Tax-Free Childcare" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b6a52b253c91c8c6a693b1e8", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bc93a9b828537b53c986d5f2" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/use-childrens-centres", "situations": [ "A family wants local early-years, parenting, health or practical support from a children's centre or family hub." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_childrens_centre_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "use-childrens-centres-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not guarantee a named centre, current programme, eligibility, appointment or another nation's equivalent." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Education", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/332d0045274a1dba54a9169d", "resource_id": "resource:use-childrens-centres:use-childrens-centres-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-childrens-centres-use-childrens-centres-primary", "summary": "Routes families in England to the local authority responsible for children's-centre information.", "title": "Find a Sure Start Children's Centre", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/find-sure-start-childrens-centre" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_childcare_support_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove a separate development, health, safeguarding, library or registration rule." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3dd28f1f1c8051a099993cfb", "resource_id": "resource:use-childrens-centres:early-years-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-childrens-centres-early-years-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes families in Scotland to current funded childcare and childcare-cost support.", "title": "Help with childcare costs in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/childcare-costs-help" }, { "authority_role": "wales_childcare_and_early_years_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/12c10ef0394dc21fd829500d", "resource_id": "resource:use-childrens-centres:early-years-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-childrens-centres-early-years-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes families and providers in Wales to current childcare and early-years information.", "title": "Childcare in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/childcare" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_early_years_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "A topic handoff does not prove a family-specific rule, deadline, cost or eligibility decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/23500222043dc65f57aa2e22", "resource_id": "resource:use-childrens-centres:early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-childrens-centres-early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Northern Ireland to current education, childcare and early-years services.", "title": "Education in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Use children's centres", "user_needs": [ "Find the responsible local service and check what is currently offered and how to access it." ] }, { "aliases": [ "represent myself in court", "start civil case", "family court hearing" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "use-civil-or-family-court-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "use-civil-or-family-court-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "police-legal-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "use-civil-or-family-court-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "use-civil-or-family-court-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Identify the correct claim or application, follow pre-action or safeguarding requirements and retain filing, service, order and appeal records.", "domain": { "id": "police-and-legal-services", "route": "life-course-domain/police-and-legal-services", "title": "Police and legal services" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A dispute", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Identify the correct claim or application, follow pre-action or safeguarding requirements and retain filing, service, order and appeal records.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/17d6a20d9c9bb746f0102793", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dcd59b68fa6aceb668cb4d30" }, "route": "service-episode/use-civil-or-family-court-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e64feb62d0935e9441607d35", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b1dd43552fe7fb03d2201d8f", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e78ccedc3a566d6c105f53b1", "resource_route": "resource/use-civil-or-family-court-use-civil-or-family-court-primary", "source_id": "use-civil-or-family-court-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fd8b7e6f7299f607ae52b61e", "resource_route": "resource/use-civil-or-family-court-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8364b5db1ea52d86b87f26ea", "resource_route": "resource/use-civil-or-family-court-police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/use-civil-or-family-court-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "use-civil-or-family-court-primary", "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to use a civil or family court and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Identify the correct claim or application, follow pre-action or safeguarding requirements and retain filing, service, order and appeal records." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/badc1e0ef44b3e900d5a39bb", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/da20191aa3536c8ae286fa7b", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/840e0891571f5fe0418bf9fd", "resource_route": "resource/use-civil-or-family-court-use-civil-or-family-court-primary", "source_id": "use-civil-or-family-court-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2928545735e86a9e3d14158d", "resource_route": "resource/use-civil-or-family-court-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9c06d51e4cdc55afbf985daa", "resource_route": "resource/use-civil-or-family-court-police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/use-civil-or-family-court-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "use-civil-or-family-court-primary", "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1e8dd5158705e02aac9ab850", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/75c914089a13076fdad6b0f6" }, "route": "service-episode/use-civil-or-family-court-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/13578dbb65a6f480677b471c", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5ea21199edbeb82b35cba080", "resource_route": "resource/use-civil-or-family-court-use-civil-or-family-court-primary", "source_id": "use-civil-or-family-court-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/919d5ddaf85a5b37a1cef6b8", "resource_route": "resource/use-civil-or-family-court-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f4a4012743133cb6c7c2e4ba", "resource_route": "resource/use-civil-or-family-court-police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/use-civil-or-family-court-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "use-civil-or-family-court-primary", "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "use-civil-or-family-court", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Use a civil or family court\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Obtain legal help and use adjudication** in the **Police and legal services** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the correct claim or application, follow pre-action or safeguarding requirements and retain filing, service, order and appeal records.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Represent yourself in court](https://www.gov.uk/represent-yourself-in-court)\n- [Scotland: Crime, justice and the law in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/crime-justice-law)\n- [Wales: Represent yourself in court](https://www.gov.uk/represent-yourself-in-court)\n- [Northern Ireland: Crime, justice and the law in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/crime-justice-and-law)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Obtain legal help and use adjudication**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Obtain legal help and use adjudication", "source": "services/use-civil-or-family-court.md", "title": "Use a civil or family court within Obtain legal help and use adjudication" }, "process": { "id": "obtain-legal-help-and-use-adjudication", "route": "enclosing-process/obtain-legal-help-and-use-adjudication", "title": "Obtain legal help and use adjudication" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision", "sequenced": false, "title": "Appeal a court or tribunal decision" }, { "id": "get-legal-aid", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-legal-aid", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get legal aid" }, { "id": "obtain-police-station-legal-advice", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-police-station-legal-advice", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain police-station legal advice" }, { "id": "use-tribunal", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-tribunal", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a tribunal" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e75693b9d2d7374bdd824651", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/12be5f77b9088f55bf84cec1" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/use-civil-or-family-court", "situations": [ "A dispute, family issue or protective matter may require a civil or family court decision." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_civil_family_court_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "use-civil-or-family-court-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not choose a claim, provide legal advice, draft documents or predict an order." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "HM Courts and Tribunals Service", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2359c8f64848eb9144b66fcb", "resource_id": "resource:use-civil-or-family-court:use-civil-or-family-court-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-civil-or-family-court-use-civil-or-family-court-primary", "summary": "Introduces England and Wales civil or family court preparation, hearing and support handoffs.", "title": "Represent yourself in court", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/represent-yourself-in-court" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_police_legal_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not provide emergency response, legal advice or an individual court or appeal route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0d98b98d5b4a0aa5dcb68c55", "resource_id": "resource:use-civil-or-family-court:police-legal-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-civil-or-family-court-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish police, victim support, legal aid, courts and tribunal information.", "title": "Crime, justice and the law in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/crime-justice-law" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_police_legal_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "England, Wales and Scotland justice procedure does not establish Northern Ireland routes." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/23095a51287ea622bfa06eea", "resource_id": "resource:use-civil-or-family-court:police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-civil-or-family-court-police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland policing, victims, legal help, courts and tribunal services.", "title": "Crime, justice and the law in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/crime-justice-and-law" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Use a civil or family court", "user_needs": [ "Find jurisdiction-specific procedure and regulated help without drafting or recommending litigation." ] }, { "aliases": [ "dial a ride", "volunteer car scheme", "accessible local transport" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "use-community-transport-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "use-community-transport-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Find an eligible local not-for-profit, commissioned or permit-based transport service and confirm 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generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to use community transport and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Find an eligible local not-for-profit, commissioned or permit-based transport service and confirm booking and support arrangements." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/651f9a94d172a05717f7cd42", "follows_previous": 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unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6ebc2b005e3b54d03dbda103", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c5872db60673ee1effb588ba" }, "route": "service-episode/use-community-transport-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6366e393a3c1c3a553fb1341", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/65c5dfbbb9e7c8c57725cead", "resource_route": "resource/use-community-transport-use-community-transport-primary", "source_id": "use-community-transport-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4408de28aadc30cde68d6d96", "resource_route": "resource/use-community-transport-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8985fd9f7a29cb146ef2da08", "resource_route": "resource/use-community-transport-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fbaec434a8aadf1e98a853d7", "resource_route": "resource/use-community-transport-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/use-community-transport-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "use-community-transport-primary", "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "use-community-transport", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Use community transport\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Obtain accessible and community mobility** in the **Public and private transport** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind an eligible local not-for-profit, commissioned or permit-based transport service and confirm booking and support arrangements.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Community transport services and Shopmobility](https://www.gov.uk/community-transport-services-shopmobility)\n- [Scotland: Transport and travel in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport)\n- [Wales: Transport in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/transport)\n- [Northern Ireland: Travel, transport and roads in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/travel-transport-and-roads)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Obtain accessible and community mobility**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Obtain accessible and community mobility", "source": "services/use-community-transport.md", "title": "Use community transport within Obtain accessible and community mobility" }, "process": { "id": "obtain-accessible-and-community-mobility", "route": "enclosing-process/obtain-accessible-and-community-mobility", "title": "Obtain accessible and community mobility" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-blue-badge", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-blue-badge", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a Blue Badge" }, { "id": "license-taxi-or-private-hire", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/license-taxi-or-private-hire", "sequenced": false, "title": "License a taxi or private-hire service" }, { "id": "obtain-concessionary-travel", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-concessionary-travel", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain concessionary travel" }, { "id": "plan-accessible-public-transport", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/plan-accessible-public-transport", "sequenced": false, "title": "Plan accessible public transport" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/65f43652320438d8c2492226", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f5bc9924ac4b9e9afe31c6b9" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/use-community-transport", "situations": [ "A person cannot readily use ordinary public transport for an essential or community journey." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_community_transport_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "use-community-transport-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not verify an operator, establish eligibility, make a booking or assess support needs." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Transport", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e5d42d5685428f20925a2291", "resource_id": "resource:use-community-transport:use-community-transport-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-community-transport-use-community-transport-primary", "summary": "Introduces England community transport and mobility services and local handoffs.", "title": "Community transport services and Shopmobility", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/community-transport-services-shopmobility" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish that an England concession, permit or operator-licensing route applies in Scotland." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0aeca3363f125b0e4aab7812", "resource_id": "resource:use-community-transport:public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-community-transport-public-private-transport-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish public, accessible, local and road-transport services.", "title": "Transport and travel in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport" }, { "authority_role": "wales_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine a local permit, concession, operator licence or journey accessibility." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/701879147fc9c9654e17a1e6", "resource_id": "resource:use-community-transport:public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-community-transport-public-private-transport-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh transport policy, concessions and service information.", "title": "Transport in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/transport" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_transport_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain vehicle and local-transport pages do not establish Northern Ireland procedure." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1d10ad3b5465816f6d659cab", "resource_id": "resource:use-community-transport:public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-community-transport-public-private-transport-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland public-transport, motoring and road 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"sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/68e54eb82cead1641f84657c", "resource_route": "resource/use-family-court-use-family-court-primary", "source_id": "use-family-court-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f32e13285464f13b7c2a6dbc", "resource_route": "resource/use-family-court-family-change-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c3d86b9cfba1e64738223313", "resource_route": "resource/use-family-court-family-change-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "family-change-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/use-family-court-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, 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release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Use a family court\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Obtain family protection, representation and care** in the **Relationships and family change** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the exact family application, complete any required safeguarding or mediation step and follow the applicable filing, hearing and order route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Looking after children if you divorce or separate](https://www.gov.uk/looking-after-children-divorce)\n- [Scotland: Births, deaths and family in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family)\n- [Wales: Looking after children if you divorce or separate](https://www.gov.uk/looking-after-children-divorce)\n- [Northern Ireland: Find out your rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/find-out-your-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Obtain family protection, representation and care**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Obtain family protection, representation and care", "source": "services/use-family-court.md", "title": "Use a family court within Obtain family protection, representation and care" }, "process": { "id": "obtain-family-protection-representation-and-care", "route": "enclosing-process/obtain-family-protection-representation-and-care", "title": "Obtain family protection, representation and care" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-deputyship", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-deputyship", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for deputyship" }, { "id": "get-domestic-abuse-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-domestic-abuse-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get domestic abuse support" }, { "id": "get-family-carer-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-family-carer-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get family carer support" }, { "id": "register-lasting-power-of-attorney", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-lasting-power-of-attorney", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register lasting power of attorney" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/22b7d0162f349c62644af8e8", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3514cbf61f1daa42375f4bce" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/use-family-court", "situations": [ "A family dispute or protection issue may require a court decision." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_family_court_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "use-family-court-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not provide legal advice, assess safeguarding risk or cover every family application." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Ministry of Justice", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/783081c1a6d35bfce0cb282a", "resource_id": "resource:use-family-court:use-family-court-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-family-court-use-family-court-primary", "summary": "Routes England and Wales users to child arrangements, mediation and family-court information.", "title": "Looking after children if you divorce or separate", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/looking-after-children-divorce" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_family_change_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "family-change-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not determine status, legal rights, eligibility, safeguarding action or an individual court route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/302f6c83dc0800e0d3029018", "resource_id": "resource:use-family-court:family-change-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-family-court-family-change-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish marriage, civil partnership, family, care and representation information.", "title": "Births, deaths and family in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family" }, { "authority_role": 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"order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/82c9fa89f47f2047eb42f5a1", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/19638f275fd6744fc5ebb1c0", "resource_route": "resource/use-household-recycling-service-use-household-recycling-service-primary", "source_id": "use-household-recycling-service-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1a6cf0273a8acb49d8175d58", "resource_route": 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"source_ids": [ "use-household-recycling-service-primary", "rubbish-street-scotland-handoff", "rubbish-street-wales-handoff", "rubbish-street-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "use-household-recycling-service", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Use a household recycling service\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Manage household waste collections** in the **Rubbish, recycling and the street** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck locally accepted materials and use the applicable kerbside, bring-site or household recycling-centre route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Household recycling](https://www.gov.uk/recycling-collections)\n- [Scotland: Bins and recycling in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services/rubbish-and-recycling)\n- [Wales: Recycling and waste in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/recycling-waste-circular-economy)\n- [Northern Ireland: Rubbish, recycling and waste in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/environment-and-outdoors/waste-and-recycling)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Manage household waste collections**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Manage household waste collections", "source": "services/use-household-recycling-service.md", "title": "Use a household recycling service within Manage household waste collections" }, "process": { "id": "manage-household-waste-collections", "route": "enclosing-process/manage-household-waste-collections", "title": "Manage household waste collections" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-bulky-waste-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-bulky-waste-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange bulky waste collection" }, { "id": "arrange-clinical-waste-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-clinical-waste-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange clinical waste collection" }, { "id": "arrange-garden-waste-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-garden-waste-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange garden waste collection" }, { "id": "dispose-of-hazardous-waste", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/dispose-of-hazardous-waste", "sequenced": false, "title": "Dispose of hazardous waste" }, { "id": "order-replacement-waste-container", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/order-replacement-waste-container", "sequenced": false, "title": "Order a replacement waste container" }, { "id": "report-missed-rubbish-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-missed-rubbish-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a missed rubbish collection" }, { "id": "view-waste-collection-schedule", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/view-waste-collection-schedule", "sequenced": false, "title": "View the waste collection schedule" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a50d4701af4809d781fc6fbe", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/eead78f8e6e1a6f41074d1b5" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/use-household-recycling-service", "situations": [ "A household wants to separate and dispose of recyclable materials correctly." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_household_recycling_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "use-household-recycling-service-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish what a specific council accepts or the 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"family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3dbaf6e5470b8e47f1f555f1" }, "route": "service-episode/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/44db466f92b4f6d105e61f10", "resource_route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-later-life-wales-handoff", "source_id": "later-life-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5f6bcda894015ab597fff037", "resource_route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "use-older-person-concessionary-travel-primary", "later-life-scotland-handoff", "later-life-wales-handoff", "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "use-older-person-concessionary-travel", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Use older-person concessionary travel\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Secure later-life income and mobility** in the **Later life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the territorial and local scheme, check its age and residence rules and apply through the responsible authority.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Apply for an older person's bus pass](https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-elderly-person-bus-pass)\n- [Scotland: Benefits in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/benefits)\n- [Wales: Social care in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/social-care)\n- [Northern Ireland: Pensions and retirement planning](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/pensions-and-retirement-planning)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Secure later-life income and mobility**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Secure later-life income and mobility", "source": "services/use-older-person-concessionary-travel.md", "title": "Use older-person concessionary travel within Secure later-life income and mobility" }, "process": { "id": "secure-later-life-income-and-mobility", "route": "enclosing-process/secure-later-life-income-and-mobility", "title": "Secure later-life income and mobility" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "claim-attendance-allowance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-attendance-allowance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Attendance Allowance" }, { "id": "claim-pension-credit", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-pension-credit", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim Pension Credit" }, { "id": "claim-state-pension", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/claim-state-pension", "sequenced": false, "title": "Claim State Pension" }, { "id": "get-state-pension-forecast", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-state-pension-forecast", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a State Pension forecast" }, { "id": "manage-workplace-pension-in-retirement", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/manage-workplace-pension-in-retirement", "sequenced": false, "title": "Manage a workplace pension in retirement" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/023c2c7348270cbd7a8f74d1", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/40441eb929bdb34d9a0de33d" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/use-older-person-concessionary-travel", "situations": [ "An older person wants to use or apply for concessionary public transport." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_older_person_bus_pass_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "use-older-person-concessionary-travel-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish Scottish, Welsh or Northern Ireland schemes, decide eligibility or issue a pass." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Transport", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bab99b31f18c7006a7b17f14", "resource_id": "resource:use-older-person-concessionary-travel:use-older-person-concessionary-travel-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-use-older-person-concessionary-travel-primary", "summary": "Routes eligible England applicants to the responsible local concessionary bus-pass service.", "title": "Apply for an older person's bus pass", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-elderly-person-bus-pass" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_later_life_benefit_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "later-life-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide entitlement, pension, care, legal planning or health needs." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0d08886ec06a7d90e07fe048", "resource_id": "resource:use-older-person-concessionary-travel:later-life-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-later-life-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish benefit, disability and older-person support information.", "title": "Benefits in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/benefits" }, { "authority_role": "wales_later_life_care_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "later-life-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not assess needs, identify a local service, decide funding or cover every pension and legal-planning route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/bc9cf78a8b9a83cbd9f133d5", "resource_id": "resource:use-older-person-concessionary-travel:later-life-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-later-life-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh social-care policy, support and service information.", "title": "Social care in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/social-care" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_retirement_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide pension entitlement, care, health or legal-planning needs." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0c24cba2c8876fd1b815104d", "resource_id": "resource:use-older-person-concessionary-travel:later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-older-person-concessionary-travel-later-life-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland pension and retirement-planning information.", "title": "Pensions and retirement planning", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/pensions-and-retirement-planning" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Use older-person concessionary travel", "user_needs": [ "Find the correct local route without assuming one UK age, mode or validity rule." ] }, { "aliases": [ "find a pharmacy", "ask pharmacist", "community pharmacy help" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "use-pharmacy-services-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "use-pharmacy-services-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "health-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "health-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "health-wales-handoff", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "health-wales-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "health-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Use the current NHS route to locate a pharmacy and confirm whether it can supply, advise, refer or provide the needed commissioned service.", "domain": { "id": "health-throughout-life", "route": "life-course-domain/health-throughout-life", "title": "Health throughout life" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person needs medicines, minor-illness advice or another community pharmacy service.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Use the current NHS route to locate a pharmacy and confirm whether it can supply, advise, refer or provide the needed commissioned service.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/47684ce49434526b7a8a0ca1", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a08cfceed20da906d4809e67" }, "route": "service-episode/use-pharmacy-services-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8633230a694cfb3589688c17", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/841e8eab7f411bf4c618d456", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c73e7db92ca01126f5028aac", "resource_route": "resource/use-pharmacy-services-use-pharmacy-services-primary", "source_id": "use-pharmacy-services-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ce429c8b881bf8d83b5355c5", "resource_route": "resource/use-pharmacy-services-health-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "health-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/21a78845aa0221eb994614c7", "resource_route": "resource/use-pharmacy-services-health-wales-handoff", "source_id": "health-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ed8d8d086889768a8f423a0b", "resource_route": "resource/use-pharmacy-services-health-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "health-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/use-pharmacy-services-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "use-pharmacy-services-primary", "health-scotland-handoff", "health-wales-handoff", "health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to use pharmacy services and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the current NHS route to locate a pharmacy and confirm whether it can supply, advise, refer or provide the needed commissioned service." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ae7efe52136473b9d1dd0424", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/887ce0a34ed81048edbff721", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6eb98101cfc5cf14a28b82b2", "resource_route": "resource/use-pharmacy-services-use-pharmacy-services-primary", "source_id": "use-pharmacy-services-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e048aa8839021fda4d7ecf39", "resource_route": "resource/use-pharmacy-services-health-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "health-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a02b18df87454fe884999f51", "resource_route": "resource/use-pharmacy-services-health-wales-handoff", "source_id": "health-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/864fb0224d7c18dd5eca8160", "resource_route": "resource/use-pharmacy-services-health-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "health-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/use-pharmacy-services-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "use-pharmacy-services-primary", "health-scotland-handoff", "health-wales-handoff", "health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fd7f822fb6e589c6f31ceb44", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6576470176e0e724e078fcec" }, "route": "service-episode/use-pharmacy-services-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/98f9e39ce060cca00c67ac04", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5feb6e1c40d02da6d164e56f", "resource_route": "resource/use-pharmacy-services-use-pharmacy-services-primary", "source_id": "use-pharmacy-services-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1a34c7ffce3572bec8ddbbbc", "resource_route": "resource/use-pharmacy-services-health-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "health-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/828f8e32484eafc0f3950e06", "resource_route": "resource/use-pharmacy-services-health-wales-handoff", "source_id": "health-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/233c557296ac26083c4fd034", "resource_route": "resource/use-pharmacy-services-health-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "health-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/use-pharmacy-services-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "use-pharmacy-services-primary", "health-scotland-handoff", "health-wales-handoff", "health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "use-pharmacy-services", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Use pharmacy services\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Use routine and preventive healthcare** in the **Health throughout life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the current NHS route to locate a pharmacy and confirm whether it can supply, advise, refer or provide the needed commissioned service.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Pharmacies](https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/pharmacies/)\n- [Scotland: NHS services in Scotland](https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/)\n- [Wales: NHS 111 Wales](https://111.wales.nhs.uk/)\n- [Northern Ireland: Health and Social Care Northern Ireland online](https://online.hscni.net/)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Use routine and preventive healthcare**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Use routine and preventive healthcare", "source": "services/use-pharmacy-services.md", "title": "Use pharmacy services within Use routine and preventive healthcare" }, "process": { "id": "use-routine-and-preventive-healthcare", "route": "enclosing-process/use-routine-and-preventive-healthcare", "title": "Use routine and preventive healthcare" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-dental-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-dental-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access dental care" }, { "id": "access-eye-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-eye-care", "sequenced": 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"resource:use-pharmacy-services:use-pharmacy-services-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-pharmacy-services-use-pharmacy-services-primary", "summary": "Introduces England pharmacy finding, medicines and commissioned service routes.", "title": "Pharmacies", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/pharmacies/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_health_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "health-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, triage or establish the correct service for an individual situation." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS 24", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/69179b0ca6eecaecb9f603af", "resource_id": "resource:use-pharmacy-services:health-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": 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"assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/049e7a5b6afa5c4cceafb3ef", "resource_route": "resource/use-public-job-search-finding-work-wales-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1c352ca0bb6c371c7cdc072d", "resource_route": "resource/use-public-job-search-finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/use-public-job-search-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "use-public-job-search-primary", "finding-work-scotland-handoff", "finding-work-wales-handoff", "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "use-public-job-search", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Use public job search\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter fair and supported work** in the **Finding work and unemployment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nSearch current public vacancy listings and follow the named employer's application route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Find a job](https://www.gov.uk/find-a-job)\n- [Scotland: Finding a job in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job)\n- [Wales: Employment support in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/employment-support)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter fair and supported work**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter fair and supported work", "source": "services/use-public-job-search.md", "title": "Use public job search within Enter fair and supported work" }, "process": { "id": "enter-fair-and-supported-work", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-fair-and-supported-work", "title": "Enter fair and supported work" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-access-to-work", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-access-to-work", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Access to Work" }, { "id": "get-disclosure-or-dbs-check", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-disclosure-or-dbs-check", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a disclosure or DBS check" }, { "id": "get-jobcentre-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-jobcentre-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Jobcentre support" }, { "id": "prove-right-to-work", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/prove-right-to-work", "sequenced": false, "title": "Prove the right to work" }, { "id": "resolve-recruitment-discrimination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/resolve-recruitment-discrimination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Resolve recruitment discrimination" }, { "id": "start-work-based-apprenticeship", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-work-based-apprenticeship", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start a work-based apprenticeship" }, { "id": "volunteer-in-the-uk", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/volunteer-in-the-uk", "sequenced": false, "title": "Volunteer in the UK" } ], 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"linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-public-job-search-finding-work-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish job-search and employment-support services.", "title": "Finding a job in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job" }, { "authority_role": "wales_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/277d5ad3185fa10d7474423a", "resource_id": "resource:use-public-job-search:finding-work-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-public-job-search-finding-work-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh employability and skills support.", "title": "Employment support in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/employment-support" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/0ebd91964418032db3217b3e", "resource_id": "resource:use-public-job-search:finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-public-job-search-finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland employment services and rights.", "title": "Employment in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Use public job search", "user_needs": [ "Use an accountable vacancy service while checking the actual employer and application terms." ] }, { "aliases": [ "library activities for children", "local library family services" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "use-public-library-child-services-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "use-public-library-child-services-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { 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"rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "use-public-library-child-services-primary", "early-years-scotland-handoff", "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fbd28decca191593afe07c63", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d950ff90800c7fd19ea3d5b2" }, "route": "service-episode/use-public-library-child-services-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/14e8547a7d2c80f48182cbb5", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d7c7dacd03b68dde8bbaf283", "resource_route": "resource/use-public-library-child-services-use-public-library-child-services-primary", "source_id": "use-public-library-child-services-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/501440e5a1f4221d423276d7", "resource_route": "resource/use-public-library-child-services-early-years-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/97c1684bd98714ea20b2d7bd", "resource_route": "resource/use-public-library-child-services-early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/use-public-library-child-services-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "use-public-library-child-services-primary", "early-years-scotland-handoff", "early-years-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "use-public-library-child-services", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Use public library child services\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Arrange childcare and early education** in the **Early years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind the responsible public library service and its current reading, activity, access and support offer for children.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Local library services](https://www.gov.uk/local-library-services)\n- [Scotland: Help with childcare costs in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/childcare-costs-help)\n- [Wales: Local library services](https://www.gov.uk/local-library-services)\n- [Northern Ireland: Education in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Arrange childcare and early education**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Arrange childcare and early education", "source": "services/use-public-library-child-services.md", "title": "Use public library child services within Arrange childcare and early education" }, "process": { "id": "arrange-childcare-and-early-education", "route": "enclosing-process/arrange-childcare-and-early-education", "title": "Arrange childcare and early education" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "find-registered-childcare", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/find-registered-childcare", "sequenced": false, "title": "Find registered childcare" }, { "id": "get-childcare-cost-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-childcare-cost-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get childcare cost support" }, { "id": "get-funded-early-education", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-funded-early-education", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get funded early education" }, { "id": "register-as-childminder", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-as-childminder", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register as a childminder" }, { "id": "use-childrens-centres", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-childrens-centres", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use children's centres" }, { "id": "use-tax-free-childcare", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-tax-free-childcare", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use Tax-Free Childcare" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4c3149a50b88bed2fabc656c", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2eac34c806c8e6cb5fdacd8c" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "not_required" }, "route": "dataset/use-public-library-child-services", "situations": [ "A child or family wants to use local public-library collections, activities or digital services." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_library_service_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "use-public-library-child-services-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not enumerate live activities, stock, membership rules, accessibility or another nation's service." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Culture, Media and Sport", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e0f87f4f2d01c9155bc7e09a", "resource_id": "resource:use-public-library-child-services:use-public-library-child-services-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-public-library-child-services-use-public-library-child-services-primary", "summary": "Routes users in England and Wales to the responsible local public-library service.", "title": "Local library services", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/local-library-services" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_childcare_support_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "early-years-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not prove a separate development, health, safeguarding, library or registration rule." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/1f7c51a55de039bcbfe7437b", "resource_id": 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"https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ab661ec3cc42ab1c6ecee9e0", "resource_id": "resource:use-public-library-child-services:early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-public-library-child-services-early-years-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people in Northern Ireland to current education, childcare and early-years services.", "title": "Education in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Use public library child services", "user_needs": [ "Find the correct library authority, locations, membership and accessible-service information." ] }, { "aliases": [ "NHS screening programme", "screening invitation", "screening results" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": 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providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Use a screening service\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Use routine and preventive healthcare** in the **Health throughout life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the relevant population screening programme, invitation or provider route and follow its information, test, result and referral steps.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: NHS screening](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/nhs-screening/)\n- [Scotland: NHS services in Scotland](https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/)\n- [Wales: NHS 111 Wales](https://111.wales.nhs.uk/)\n- [Northern Ireland: Health and Social Care Northern Ireland online](https://online.hscni.net/)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Use routine and preventive healthcare**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Use routine and preventive healthcare", "source": "services/use-screening-service.md", "title": "Use a screening service within Use routine and preventive healthcare" }, "process": { "id": "use-routine-and-preventive-healthcare", "route": "enclosing-process/use-routine-and-preventive-healthcare", "title": "Use routine and preventive healthcare" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-dental-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-dental-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access dental care" }, { "id": "access-eye-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-eye-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access eye care" }, { "id": "get-prescription", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-prescription", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a prescription" }, { "id": "get-sexual-and-reproductive-healthcare", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-sexual-and-reproductive-healthcare", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get sexual and reproductive healthcare" }, { "id": "get-vaccination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-vaccination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a vaccination" }, { "id": "register-with-gp", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-with-gp", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register with a GP" }, { "id": "use-pharmacy-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-pharmacy-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use pharmacy services" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": 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"Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Use a sector ombudsman\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Report harm and use consumer redress** in the **Shopping and consumer rights** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nComplete the provider's complaint stage, identify the recognized scheme for the sector and submit within its current jurisdiction and scope.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Consumer rights](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n- [Scotland: Consumer rights in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/consumer-rights)\n- [Wales: Consumer rights](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n- [Northern Ireland: Consumer rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Report harm and use consumer redress**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Report harm and use consumer redress", "source": "services/use-sector-ombudsman.md", "title": "Use a sector ombudsman within Report harm and use consumer redress" }, "process": { "id": "report-harm-and-use-consumer-redress", "route": "enclosing-process/report-harm-and-use-consumer-redress", "title": "Report harm and use consumer redress" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "contact-trading-standards", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/contact-trading-standards", "sequenced": false, "title": "Contact Trading Standards" }, { "id": "make-small-money-claim", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/make-small-money-claim", "sequenced": false, "title": "Make a small money claim" }, { "id": "report-product-safety-issue", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-product-safety-issue", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a product safety issue" }, { "id": "report-scam-or-fraud", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-scam-or-fraud", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a scam or fraud" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/37c01c2315b1ae28013abf74", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/59aaf5e5682fbc892cd6acb3" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/use-sector-ombudsman", "situations": [ "A consumer complaint remains unresolved after the responsible provider's required internal process." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_consumer_redress_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "use-sector-ombudsman-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify one ombudsman for every issue or establish scheme jurisdiction or acceptance." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Competition and Markets Authority", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/137606a4a1bcaeb8857d75dd", "resource_id": "resource:use-sector-ombudsman:use-sector-ombudsman-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-sector-ombudsman-use-sector-ombudsman-primary", "summary": "Routes consumers to public advice that can identify sector-specific complaint and redress services.", "title": "Consumer rights", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_consumer_rights_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not decide whether goods, services, terms or credit breach a consumer's rights." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8578d0ae0ef29784fad8fb9c", "resource_id": "resource:use-sector-ombudsman:consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-sector-ombudsman-consumer-rights-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish consumer advice, complaint and enforcement information.", "title": "Consumer rights in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/consumer-rights" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_consumer_rights_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Great Britain civil and consumer procedure does not establish Northern Ireland redress." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Competition and Markets Authority", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f2fe44fc7e904717d57572ac", "resource_id": "resource:use-sector-ombudsman:consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-sector-ombudsman-consumer-rights-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland consumer advice, complaints and enforcement.", "title": "Consumer rights in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Use a sector ombudsman", "user_needs": [ "Verify the ombudsman or redress scheme and keep sectors, jurisdictions and binding powers distinct." ] }, { "aliases": [ "tax free childcare account", "government childcare top-up" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "use-tax-free-childcare-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "use-tax-free-childcare-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "use-tax-free-childcare-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "use-tax-free-childcare-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "use-tax-free-childcare-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "use-tax-free-childcare-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "use-tax-free-childcare-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "use-tax-free-childcare-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Check, open and manage a Tax-Free Childcare account through the current UK service.", "domain": { "id": "early-years", "route": "life-course-domain/early-years", "title": "Early years" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A working family wants to check whether Tax-Free Childcare is the relevant cost-support 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official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4a1cadb9a863826ec93231e4", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/55dba724b24aaa79f492649f", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6cce9ff7b085c1d5e093e579", "resource_route": "resource/use-tax-free-childcare-use-tax-free-childcare-primary", "source_id": "use-tax-free-childcare-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/use-tax-free-childcare-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "use-tax-free-childcare-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to use tax-free childcare and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Check, open and manage a Tax-Free Childcare account through the current UK service." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6520addf4fe8ead2cb44b839", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/68e1596866d40c62ae00ffd0", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/44426ef50b72e0e4247a19b9", "resource_route": "resource/use-tax-free-childcare-use-tax-free-childcare-primary", "source_id": "use-tax-free-childcare-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/use-tax-free-childcare-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "use-tax-free-childcare-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fc8ee9171f5e99bd12ae6a87", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d6e9f1702e52e60293d53177" }, "route": "service-episode/use-tax-free-childcare-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/89a7de596874cf86cdedc6e4", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8e0a5308756a34ce707e57b7", "resource_route": "resource/use-tax-free-childcare-use-tax-free-childcare-primary", "source_id": "use-tax-free-childcare-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/use-tax-free-childcare-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "use-tax-free-childcare-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "use-tax-free-childcare", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Use Tax-Free Childcare\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Arrange childcare and early education** in the **Early years** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nCheck, open and manage a Tax-Free Childcare account through the current UK service.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Tax-Free Childcare](https://www.gov.uk/tax-free-childcare)\n- [Scotland: Tax-Free Childcare](https://www.gov.uk/tax-free-childcare)\n- [Wales: Tax-Free Childcare](https://www.gov.uk/tax-free-childcare)\n- [Northern Ireland: Tax-Free Childcare](https://www.gov.uk/tax-free-childcare)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Arrange childcare and early education**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Arrange childcare and early education", "source": "services/use-tax-free-childcare.md", "title": "Use Tax-Free Childcare within Arrange childcare and early education" }, "process": { "id": "arrange-childcare-and-early-education", "route": "enclosing-process/arrange-childcare-and-early-education", "title": "Arrange childcare and early education" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "find-registered-childcare", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/find-registered-childcare", "sequenced": false, "title": "Find registered childcare" }, { "id": "get-childcare-cost-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-childcare-cost-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get childcare cost support" }, { "id": "get-funded-early-education", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-funded-early-education", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get funded early education" }, { "id": "register-as-childminder", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-as-childminder", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register as a childminder" }, { "id": "use-childrens-centres", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-childrens-centres", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use children's centres" }, { "id": "use-public-library-child-services", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-public-library-child-services", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use public library child services" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6f74d9584435aed6eb4c5dcf", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/726f7bed2e41a362d423d4a9" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/use-tax-free-childcare", "situations": [ "A working family wants to check whether Tax-Free Childcare is the relevant cost-support route." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_tax_free_childcare_service", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "use-tax-free-childcare-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not calculate eligibility, payments, provider status, tax effects or a decision outcome." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "HM Revenue and Customs", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2aacda6b066152336bd38249", "resource_id": "resource:use-tax-free-childcare:use-tax-free-childcare-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-tax-free-childcare-use-tax-free-childcare-primary", "summary": "Provides the current Tax-Free Childcare overview and application-account handoff.", "title": "Tax-Free Childcare", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/tax-free-childcare" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Use Tax-Free Childcare", "user_needs": [ "Find the application, reconfirmation, payment and decision-review handoffs." ] }, { "aliases": [ "appeal government decision tribunal", "tribunal hearing", "administrative justice claim" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "use-tribunal-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "use-tribunal-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ "police-legal-scotland-handoff" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "use-tribunal-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "use-tribunal-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "authoritative-national-discovery-handoff" } ], "source_ids": [ 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"time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/2ce5c2ab4d790875775f724f", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5e7d2d83abaa7b4933394523" }, "route": "service-episode/use-tribunal-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cce706ef9743a5606db98b1c", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fb117434e64c10830309e8c3", "resource_route": "resource/use-tribunal-use-tribunal-primary", "source_id": "use-tribunal-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8297da153a483a4c90b72792", "resource_route": "resource/use-tribunal-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cd975108fef8ab5a4c17ccaa", "resource_route": "resource/use-tribunal-police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/use-tribunal-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "use-tribunal-primary", "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "use-tribunal", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Use a tribunal\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Obtain legal help and use adjudication** in the **Police and legal services** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nIdentify the specialist tribunal named by the disputed decision and follow its review, filing, evidence and hearing route.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Courts and tribunals](https://www.gov.uk/courts-tribunals)\n- [Scotland: Crime, justice and the law in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/crime-justice-law)\n- [Wales: Courts and tribunals](https://www.gov.uk/courts-tribunals)\n- [Northern Ireland: Crime, justice and the law in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/crime-justice-and-law)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Obtain legal help and use adjudication**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Obtain legal help and use adjudication", "source": "services/use-tribunal.md", "title": "Use a tribunal within Obtain legal help and use adjudication" }, "process": { "id": "obtain-legal-help-and-use-adjudication", "route": "enclosing-process/obtain-legal-help-and-use-adjudication", "title": "Obtain legal help and use adjudication" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/appeal-court-or-tribunal-decision", "sequenced": false, "title": "Appeal a court or tribunal decision" }, { "id": "get-legal-aid", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-legal-aid", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get legal aid" }, { "id": "obtain-police-station-legal-advice", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-police-station-legal-advice", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain police-station legal advice" }, { "id": "use-civil-or-family-court", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-civil-or-family-court", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a civil or family court" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f2c11ea83efac9e788b773f3", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fadd001f2f994c613673f014" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/use-tribunal", "situations": [ "A public, employment, property, immigration or other governed decision may be appealable to a tribunal." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_tribunal_directory", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "use-tribunal-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not identify the correct tribunal for a case, calculate time or assess appeal rights or merits." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "HM Courts and Tribunals Service", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/60d53123e78977a9727c780c", "resource_id": "resource:use-tribunal:use-tribunal-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-tribunal-use-tribunal-primary", "summary": "Provides England and Wales court and tribunal service routes and contact information.", "title": "Courts and tribunals", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/courts-tribunals" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_police_legal_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "police-legal-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not provide emergency response, legal advice or an individual court or appeal route." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7b22730c471ae0fabcccbd16", "resource_id": "resource:use-tribunal:police-legal-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-tribunal-police-legal-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish police, victim support, legal aid, courts and tribunal information.", "title": "Crime, justice and the law in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/crime-justice-law" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_police_legal_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "England, Wales and Scotland justice procedure does not establish Northern Ireland routes." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/63c996839a9e5a2dd4dcbfca", "resource_id": "resource:use-tribunal:police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-tribunal-police-legal-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland policing, victims, legal help, courts and tribunal services.", "title": "Crime, justice and the law in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/crime-justice-and-law" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Use a 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"jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "use-university-technology-transfer-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "use-university-technology-transfer-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "use-university-technology-transfer-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "use-university-technology-transfer-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Follow the institution's disclosure and ownership policy, engage its technology-transfer function and agree protection, licensing or spin-out decisions.", "domain": { "id": "ideas-creativity-and-research", "route": "life-course-domain/ideas-creativity-and-research", "title": "Ideas, creativity and research" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "Research or intellectual property connected to a university may have commercial or wider-use potential.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Follow the institution's disclosure and ownership policy, engage its technology-transfer function and agree protection, licensing or spin-out decisions.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/95b59c9ef0122b83fbab54a7", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ae92258cba08c21fb21153e6" }, "route": "service-episode/use-university-technology-transfer-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6e654558b64767566ca3831b", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/adf877e5592c6fdb6b512359", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/392a73740461500e62f8c6f0", "resource_route": "resource/use-university-technology-transfer-use-university-technology-transfer-primary", "source_id": "use-university-technology-transfer-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/use-university-technology-transfer-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "use-university-technology-transfer-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to use university technology transfer and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Follow the institution's disclosure and ownership policy, engage its technology-transfer function and agree protection, licensing or spin-out decisions." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c49ded65febd89874daed86a", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f3d622ebc51cbec7955d68e4", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f6fb67600cf31547c4416ff8", "resource_route": "resource/use-university-technology-transfer-use-university-technology-transfer-primary", "source_id": "use-university-technology-transfer-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/use-university-technology-transfer-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "use-university-technology-transfer-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a3c96eef36c9b12bc26610a2", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/7f47af3d7dec57ac6c8ddf4f" }, "route": "service-episode/use-university-technology-transfer-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/530c61a3af6dbd2bfbcba89a", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3fc4a57835fa02f20dca3a4b", "resource_route": "resource/use-university-technology-transfer-use-university-technology-transfer-primary", "source_id": "use-university-technology-transfer-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/use-university-technology-transfer-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "use-university-technology-transfer-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "use-university-technology-transfer", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Use university technology transfer\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Fund, publish and commercialise research** in the **Ideas, creativity and research** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFollow the institution's disclosure and ownership policy, engage its technology-transfer function and agree protection, licensing or spin-out decisions.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: University and business collaboration agreements](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/university-and-business-collaboration-agreements-lambert-toolkit)\n- [Scotland: University and business collaboration agreements](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/university-and-business-collaboration-agreements-lambert-toolkit)\n- [Wales: University and business collaboration agreements](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/university-and-business-collaboration-agreements-lambert-toolkit)\n- [Northern Ireland: University and business collaboration agreements](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/university-and-business-collaboration-agreements-lambert-toolkit)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Fund, publish and commercialise research**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Fund, publish and commercialise research", "source": "services/use-university-technology-transfer.md", "title": "Use university technology transfer within Fund, publish and commercialise research" }, "process": { "id": "fund-publish-and-commercialise-research", "route": "enclosing-process/fund-publish-and-commercialise-research", "title": "Fund, publish and commercialise research" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "apply-for-innovation-grant", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/apply-for-innovation-grant", "sequenced": false, "title": "Apply for an innovation grant" }, { "id": "commercialise-research", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/commercialise-research", "sequenced": false, "title": "Commercialise research" }, { "id": "publish-research", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/publish-research", "sequenced": false, "title": "Publish research" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/38df15dccdcbea36fe0d29fa", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/5859fa351cb9c68baafa1e7e" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/use-university-technology-transfer", "situations": [ "Research or intellectual property connected to a university may have commercial or wider-use potential." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_university_business_ip_agreement_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "use-university-technology-transfer-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish institution policy, decide ownership, disclose an invention or negotiate a transaction." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Intellectual Property Office", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ed0cb1ac43d1b5264cab60df", "resource_id": "resource:use-university-technology-transfer:use-university-technology-transfer-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-university-technology-transfer-use-university-technology-transfer-primary", "summary": "Provides UK model collaboration guidance and prompts for university-business intellectual-property arrangements.", "title": "University and business collaboration agreements", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/guidance/university-and-business-collaboration-agreements-lambert-toolkit" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Use university technology transfer", "user_needs": [ "Find the institutional process while preserving funder, employment, collaborator and ownership boundaries." ] }, { "aliases": [ "NHS 111", "accident and emergency", "urgent treatment centre" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "health-scotland-handoff", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": 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"reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ee211fae12e8bf6496cd4a96", "precedes_next": 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"resource/use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-health-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "health-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-primary", "health-scotland-handoff", "health-wales-handoff", "health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to use urgent and emergency health services and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use emergency services for life-threatening danger and the current territorial urgent-care route for needs that cannot wait but are not emergencies." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/82ad5388fd6546b03bdc7af4", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/43e6d3ce20b5bf0d831b13e3", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/8ec40c08ad6eb970a160ac1e", "resource_route": "resource/use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-primary", "source_id": "use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6a093b0837bb0cef260c598f", "resource_route": "resource/use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-health-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "health-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f4046f9548d083755b672e64", "resource_route": "resource/use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-health-wales-handoff", "source_id": "health-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/18242da9b4038cf053dea5dc", "resource_route": "resource/use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-health-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "health-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-primary", "health-scotland-handoff", "health-wales-handoff", "health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f620c4e9a052fbf651f48198", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/101d5f6b7723f05b69acbb7d" }, "route": "service-episode/use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e6117f9e1d4195e080a06d87", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f290feb28e5c88da90d19f2d", "resource_route": "resource/use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-primary", "source_id": "use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a10f02a36bc95f4942eb3f45", "resource_route": "resource/use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-health-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "health-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/dec66841dc2d95329c5dc632", "resource_route": "resource/use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-health-wales-handoff", "source_id": "health-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/afbc423b1fd5affbb7039504", "resource_route": "resource/use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-health-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "health-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-primary", "health-scotland-handoff", "health-wales-handoff", "health-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Use urgent and emergency health services\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Use specialist, urgent and health-redress routes** in the **Health throughout life** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse emergency services for life-threatening danger and the current territorial urgent-care route for needs that cannot wait but are not emergencies.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Urgent and emergency care services](https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/urgent-and-emergency-care-services/)\n- [Scotland: NHS services in Scotland](https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/)\n- [Wales: NHS 111 Wales](https://111.wales.nhs.uk/)\n- [Northern Ireland: Health and Social Care Northern Ireland online](https://online.hscni.net/)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Use specialist, urgent and health-redress routes**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Use specialist, urgent and health-redress routes", "source": "services/use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services.md", "title": "Use urgent and emergency health services within Use specialist, urgent and health-redress routes" }, "process": { "id": "use-specialist-urgent-and-health-redress-routes", "route": "enclosing-process/use-specialist-urgent-and-health-redress-routes", "title": "Use specialist, urgent and health-redress routes" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "access-mental-healthcare", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/access-mental-healthcare", "sequenced": false, "title": "Access mental healthcare" }, { "id": "complain-about-nhs-care", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/complain-about-nhs-care", "sequenced": false, "title": "Complain about NHS care" }, { "id": "receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-hospital-referral-and-treatment", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive hospital referral and treatment" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f742d700f07229f492e01a48", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/caed45736061434b60db543f" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services", "situations": [ "A person believes a health need is urgent or an emergency." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_urgent_emergency_care_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not triage, assess danger, dispatch help or establish devolved urgent routes." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS England", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e6cef208f07584f848a30fc5", "resource_id": "resource:use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services:use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-primary", "summary": "Routes England users to 999, NHS 111, urgent treatment and accident-and-emergency services.", "title": "Urgent and emergency care services", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/urgent-and-emergency-care-services/" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_health_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "health-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not diagnose, triage or establish the correct service for an individual situation." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "NHS 24", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/516ddfd0090aaa912da9e1b4", "resource_id": "resource:use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services:health-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-health-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current NHS Scotland primary, community, urgent and specialist services.", "title": "NHS services in Scotland", "url": "https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/" }, { "authority_role": "wales_health_service_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "health-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not replace emergency services or establish that NHS England routes apply in Wales." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Ambulance Services NHS University Trust", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/ff59654bd0dcc5ed19511ed7", "resource_id": "resource:use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services:health-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/use-urgent-and-emergency-health-services-health-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current NHS Wales service, symptom and urgent-care information.", "title": "NHS 111 Wales", "url": "https://111.wales.nhs.uk/" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_health_service_handoff", "freshness": 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"transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "verify-qualifications", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Verify qualifications\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Establish adult work, civic and identity records** in the **Transition to adulthood** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind the awarding-body or official recognition route to confirm a qualification or replace evidence.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Find a regulated qualification](https://www.gov.uk/find-a-regulated-qualification)\n- [Scotland: Education and training in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training)\n- [Wales: Education and skills in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/education-skills)\n- [Northern Ireland: Young people in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Establish adult work, civic and identity records**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Establish adult work, civic and identity records", "source": "services/verify-qualifications.md", "title": "Verify qualifications within Establish adult work, civic and identity records" }, "process": { "id": "establish-adult-work-civic-and-identity-records", "route": "enclosing-process/establish-adult-work-civic-and-identity-records", "title": "Establish adult work, civic and identity records" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-careers-advice", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-careers-advice", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get careers advice" }, { "id": "obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain proof of age or identity" }, { "id": "receive-national-insurance-number", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/receive-national-insurance-number", "sequenced": false, "title": "Receive a National Insurance number" }, { "id": "register-to-vote-for-first-time", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/register-to-vote-for-first-time", "sequenced": false, "title": "Register to vote for the first time" }, { "id": "start-apprenticeship", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-apprenticeship", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start an apprenticeship" }, { "id": "start-first-job", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-first-job", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start a first job" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": 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treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# View the waste collection schedule\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Manage household waste collections** in the **Rubbish, recycling and the street** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nUse the responsible council's address-based service to identify current collection dates, containers and material streams.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Find out your rubbish collection day](https://www.gov.uk/rubbish-collection-day)\n- [Scotland: Bins and recycling in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/housing-local-services/rubbish-and-recycling)\n- [Wales: Recycling and waste in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/recycling-waste-circular-economy)\n- [Northern Ireland: Rubbish, recycling and waste in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/environment-and-outdoors/waste-and-recycling)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Manage household waste collections**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Manage household waste collections", "source": "services/view-waste-collection-schedule.md", "title": "View the waste collection schedule within Manage household waste collections" }, "process": { "id": "manage-household-waste-collections", "route": "enclosing-process/manage-household-waste-collections", "title": "Manage household waste collections" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "arrange-bulky-waste-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-bulky-waste-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange bulky waste collection" }, { "id": "arrange-clinical-waste-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-clinical-waste-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange clinical waste collection" }, { "id": "arrange-garden-waste-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/arrange-garden-waste-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Arrange garden waste collection" }, { "id": "dispose-of-hazardous-waste", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/dispose-of-hazardous-waste", "sequenced": false, "title": "Dispose of hazardous waste" }, { "id": "order-replacement-waste-container", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/order-replacement-waste-container", "sequenced": false, "title": "Order a replacement waste container" }, { "id": "report-missed-rubbish-collection", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/report-missed-rubbish-collection", "sequenced": false, "title": "Report a missed rubbish collection" }, { "id": "use-household-recycling-service", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-household-recycling-service", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use a household recycling service" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c7afe7da99ffa2f70d5e10f8", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/948e08f714f51802fe98bc26" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/view-waste-collection-schedule", "situations": [ "A household needs to know when and how ordinary waste or recycling will be collected." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "england_wales_collection_day_locator", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "view-waste-collection-schedule-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not publish the local calendar or guarantee 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"finding-work-wales-handoff", "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/62483eaea82b672eafb35bbb", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/da28b67c4fa23bb4b14661ee" }, "route": "service-episode/volunteer-in-the-uk-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/56fc734589093ae2beee0cc2", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/d72a296eed75873f995b79d2", "resource_route": "resource/volunteer-in-the-uk-volunteer-in-the-uk-primary", "source_id": "volunteer-in-the-uk-primary" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6d5b0db7a3f01af52047eeb0", "resource_route": "resource/volunteer-in-the-uk-finding-work-scotland-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-scotland-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/263dc33edc568b040f6e1173", "resource_route": "resource/volunteer-in-the-uk-finding-work-wales-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-wales-handoff" }, { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/446905422d493b21207a6d25", "resource_route": "resource/volunteer-in-the-uk-finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "source_id": "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/volunteer-in-the-uk-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "volunteer-in-the-uk-primary", "finding-work-scotland-handoff", "finding-work-wales-handoff", "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "volunteer-in-the-uk", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Volunteer in the UK\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter fair and supported work** in the **Finding work and unemployment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind a legitimate volunteer opportunity and understand the boundary between volunteering, expenses and employment.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Volunteer placements, rights and expenses](https://www.gov.uk/volunteering)\n- [Scotland: Finding a job in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job)\n- [Wales: Employment support in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/employment-support)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter fair and supported work**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Enter fair and supported work", "source": "services/volunteer-in-the-uk.md", "title": "Volunteer in the UK within Enter fair and supported work" }, "process": { "id": "enter-fair-and-supported-work", "route": "enclosing-process/enter-fair-and-supported-work", "title": "Enter fair and supported work" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-access-to-work", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-access-to-work", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Access to Work" }, { "id": "get-disclosure-or-dbs-check", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-disclosure-or-dbs-check", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get a disclosure or DBS check" }, { "id": "get-jobcentre-support", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-jobcentre-support", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get Jobcentre support" }, { "id": "prove-right-to-work", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/prove-right-to-work", "sequenced": false, "title": "Prove the right to work" }, { "id": "resolve-recruitment-discrimination", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/resolve-recruitment-discrimination", "sequenced": false, "title": "Resolve recruitment discrimination" }, { "id": "start-work-based-apprenticeship", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/start-work-based-apprenticeship", "sequenced": false, "title": "Start a work-based apprenticeship" }, { "id": "use-public-job-search", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/use-public-job-search", "sequenced": false, "title": "Use public job search" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/32e94305811868b4d6dd0f2c", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/98d39bdcc16a34dce6e660d4" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/volunteer-in-the-uk", "situations": [ "A person wants to give unpaid time to an organisation or community." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_volunteering_rights_guidance", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "volunteer-in-the-uk-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England" ], "limitations": [ "Does not recommend an organisation or decide employment, benefit or immigration status." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Department for Culture Media and Sport", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6fe43747c6d7aeae8d40d3b2", "resource_id": "resource:volunteer-in-the-uk:volunteer-in-the-uk-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/volunteer-in-the-uk-volunteer-in-the-uk-primary", "summary": "Explains UK volunteer rights, expenses and employment-status boundaries.", "title": "Volunteer placements, rights and expenses", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/volunteering" }, { "authority_role": "scotland_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-scotland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Scotland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Scottish Government", "position": 1, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/b8311f040a34705d63510eb3", "resource_id": "resource:volunteer-in-the-uk:finding-work-scotland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/volunteer-in-the-uk-finding-work-scotland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Scottish job-search and employment-support services.", "title": "Finding a job in Scotland", "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job" }, { "authority_role": "wales_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-wales-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Wales" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Welsh Government", "position": 2, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/93a591b18c1e7555f3ead58f", "resource_id": "resource:volunteer-in-the-uk:finding-work-wales-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/volunteer-in-the-uk-finding-work-wales-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Welsh employability and skills support.", "title": "Employment support in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/employment-support" }, { "authority_role": "northern_ireland_job_support_discovery_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "Northern Ireland Executive", "position": 3, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c1c01647e3c7c76cea52f835", "resource_id": "resource:volunteer-in-the-uk:finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/volunteer-in-the-uk-finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff", "summary": "Routes people to current Northern Ireland employment services and rights.", "title": "Employment in Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Volunteer in the UK", "user_needs": [ "Check the organisation, safeguarding, expenses and benefit or immigration implications." ] }, { "aliases": [ "get a job abroad", "work in another country", "move overseas for employment" ], "applicability": [ { "jurisdiction": "England", "route_variants": [ { "id": "england-current-official-route", "primary_source": "work-overseas-primary", "provider": "organisation:england-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "work-overseas-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Scotland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "scotland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "work-overseas-primary", "provider": "organisation:scotland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "work-overseas-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Wales", "route_variants": [ { "id": "wales-current-official-route", "primary_source": "work-overseas-primary", "provider": "organisation:wales-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "work-overseas-primary" ], "state": "supported" }, { "jurisdiction": "Northern Ireland", "route_variants": [ { "id": "northern-ireland-current-official-route", "primary_source": "work-overseas-primary", "provider": "organisation:northern-ireland-official-route-provider", "route_kind": "topic-specific-authoritative-page" } ], "source_ids": [ "work-overseas-primary" ], "state": "supported" } ], "assertion_status": "normalized", "description": "Confirm destination permission, employment terms, professional recognition, tax, social security, health and return implications before starting work.", "domain": { "id": "holidays-volunteering-and-living-overseas", "route": "life-course-domain/holidays-volunteering-and-living-overseas", "title": "Holidays, volunteering and living overseas" }, "episodes": [ { "entry_state": "A person is considering employment or self-employment outside the UK.", "id": "ordinary-source-linked-route", "kind": "ordinary", "order": 0, "outcome": "Confirm destination permission, employment terms, professional recognition, tax, social security, health and return implications before starting work.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/fae8b558d112ed5d7ea3ffce", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/3882d625101a0b2f97fea956" }, "route": "service-episode/work-overseas-ordinary-source-linked-route", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Official web, telephone or local handoff shown by the selected source." }, "cost": { "reason": "No cross-route cost is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "Evidence is determined by the selected current route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "select-current-jurisdiction-route", "interaction": "Select the current official route for the place and situation.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user can continue without assuming four-nation equivalence." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "A current authoritative route and provider handoff." }, "provider": "organisation:official-service-directory", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Use the complaint, review or urgent route published by the selected authority." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/f819e5df6bf5c874b8ee9e2e", "precedes_next": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9299c4a1d88e561033d17b0c", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/a3244fc0a81214fe9df9879e", "resource_route": "resource/work-overseas-work-overseas-primary", "source_id": "work-overseas-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Location and the source-defined situation boundary." }, "route": "service-step/work-overseas-ordinary-source-linked-route-select-current-jurisdiction-route", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Jurisdiction and provider rules remain separate and source-defined." }, "source_ids": [ "work-overseas-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "No cross-route deadline is asserted; check the current official source.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } }, { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The channel published by the current source." }, "cost": { "reason": "Cost is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Only the evidence requested by the selected current source." }, "id": "follow-current-official-instructions", "interaction": "Follow the selected source to work overseas and retain its output or reference.", "order": 1, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Confirm destination permission, employment terms, professional recognition, tax, social security, health and return implications before starting work." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Source-defined confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information." }, "provider": "organisation:selected-authoritative-provider", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Escalate through the current provider's review, complaint or statutory redress route." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/361912529991249f761d4d5a", "follows_previous": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/c803a2baaacac59ab35f7ee4", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/18f3471cd62c802fc6f89afd", "resource_route": "resource/work-overseas-work-overseas-primary", "source_id": "work-overseas-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-linked route identifies the responsible service and publishes the current requirements, evidence, channel, costs and timing for that jurisdiction." }, "route": "service-step/work-overseas-ordinary-source-linked-route-follow-current-official-instructions", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The responsible authority or provider decides the real case." }, "source_ids": [ "work-overseas-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Timing is deliberately not generalized across routes.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Ordinary source linked route" }, { "entry_state": "The standard route is unavailable, does not fit, or indicates an urgent or specialist boundary.", "id": "exception-or-route-failure", "kind": "exception", "order": 1, "outcome": "The accountable exception, urgent or redress route is identified without making the decision locally.", "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6ebce7761636ec3ad351fe91", "family_episode": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/e3e66cf37b09c6f853a5e759" }, "route": "service-episode/work-overseas-exception-or-route-failure", "steps": [ { "assertion_status": "normalized", "channel": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current official exception, urgent or complaint route." }, "cost": { "reason": "Consult the current authority route.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "evidence": { "reason": "The responsible authority states what evidence is needed for the exception.", "state": "not_published_by_source" }, "id": "resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "interaction": "Stop and use the current authority's exception, urgent, safeguarding or complaint handoff when the ordinary route does not fit.", "order": 0, "outcome": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The user is handed to the accountable route without a fabricated answer." }, "output": { "state": "supported", "summary": "An authority decision, alternate route or recorded unresolved state." }, "provider": "organisation:responsible-authority-or-redress-body", "redress": { "state": "supported", "summary": "Current provider complaint, statutory review, regulator or ombudsman route as applicable." }, "relationship_assertions": { "episode_step": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/4f1bd83577e7a917ab454ad6", "sources": [ { "assertion_id": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/6dbd646437d0e3ff1f280fc5", "resource_route": "resource/work-overseas-work-overseas-primary", "source_id": "work-overseas-primary" } ] }, "requirements": { "state": "supported", "summary": "The source-defined exception or failure boundary." }, "route": "service-step/work-overseas-exception-or-route-failure-resolve-route-boundary-or-failure", "rule": { "state": "supported", "summary": "No eligibility, clinical, safeguarding or legal decision is made by this bundle." }, "source_ids": [ "work-overseas-primary" ], "time": { "reason": "Urgency and deadlines are case- and route-specific.", "state": "not_published_by_source" } } ], "title": "Exception or route failure" } ], "id": "work-overseas", "interaction_boundary": "Source-linked discovery and process navigation only; the bundle does not decide eligibility, diagnosis, treatment, safeguarding action or legal outcome.", "limitations": [ "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.", "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.", "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.", "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade." ], "narrative": { "body": "# Work overseas\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Live, work and get help overseas** in the **Holidays, volunteering and living overseas** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nConfirm destination permission, employment terms, professional recognition, tax, social security, health and return implications before starting work.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Working abroad](https://www.gov.uk/working-abroad)\n- [Scotland: Working abroad](https://www.gov.uk/working-abroad)\n- [Wales: Working abroad](https://www.gov.uk/working-abroad)\n- [Northern Ireland: Working abroad](https://www.gov.uk/working-abroad)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Live, work and get help overseas**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.", "process_context": "Live, work and get help overseas", "source": "services/work-overseas.md", "title": "Work overseas within Live, work and get help overseas" }, "process": { "id": "live-work-and-get-help-overseas", "route": "enclosing-process/live-work-and-get-help-overseas", "title": "Live, work and get help overseas" }, "related_families": [ { "id": "get-consular-assistance", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-consular-assistance", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get consular assistance" }, { "id": "get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/get-help-after-serious-incident-abroad", "sequenced": false, "title": "Get help after a serious incident abroad" }, { "id": "manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/manage-tax-ni-benefits-and-pensions-abroad", "sequenced": false, "title": "Manage tax, National Insurance, benefits and pensions abroad" }, { "id": "obtain-emergency-travel-document", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/obtain-emergency-travel-document", "sequenced": false, "title": "Obtain an emergency travel document" }, { "id": "study-or-volunteer-overseas", "relationship": "shared-enclosing-process", "route": "dataset/study-or-volunteer-overseas", "sequenced": false, "title": "Study or volunteer overseas" } ], "relationship_assertions": { "enclosing_process": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/cf56ec60c2ce9ae1c8f6da77", "life_course_domain": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/9b432dd0ca93842a45222a11" }, "review": { "population_gate": "complete", "specialist_review": "required" }, "route": "dataset/work-overseas", "situations": [ "A person is considering employment or self-employment outside the UK." ], "sources": [ { "authority_role": "uk_working_abroad_handoff", "freshness": "check_before_each_use", "id": "work-overseas-primary", "jurisdiction_basis": "explicit-family-applicability", "jurisdictions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "limitations": [ "Does not obtain permission, verify an employer or decide tax, employment or professional status." ], "observed_at": "2026-08-08", "owner": "UK Government", "position": 0, "relationship_assertion": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/assertions/50194130b9ec9f3c006a2f99", "resource_id": "resource:work-overseas:work-overseas-primary", "rights_decision": "linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded", "route": "resource/work-overseas-work-overseas-primary", "summary": "Routes UK residents to current work-abroad, tax, social-security and destination information.", "title": "Working abroad", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/working-abroad" } ], "status": "population_complete", "title": "Work overseas", "user_needs": [ "Find cross-border work obligations without immigration, tax or employment advice from the bundle." ] } ], "generated_at": "2026-08-08T00:00:00+01:00", "normalisation": { "comma_fragments": "join-consecutive-fragments-until-terminal-punctuation-v1", "step_fact_flow_mapping_fragments": "append-null-key-fragments-to-step-fact-narrative-with-comma-space-v1" }, "schema": "life-course-journey-projection.v1", "snapshot": "life-course-authority-infrastructure-2026-08-08", "source_identity": { "bundle_descriptor": { "bytes": 3378, "path": "publication/okf-explorer.json", "sha256": "ff69f0162a4ba93156b150ae4eea0070c8c8a81187ed5cc7d2425f37b8db34dc" }, "bundle_url": "https://chris-page-gov.github.io/okf-uk-living/okf-explorer.json", "candidate_id": "life-course-population-complete-2026-08-08", "candidate_manifest": { "bytes": 3194, "path": "generated/assurance/candidate-manifest.json", "sha256": "55f8428248b06646e0995f5230207c9006bf4d583d29157fb010ad7e69e416a1" }, "data_manifest": { "bytes": 1590, "path": "large/data/manifest.json", "sha256": "fe0e11219ceec88702ca8a5d536d6d0ac0425f3bb29c7586884cfb0e56c957b4" }, "relationship_runtime": { "bytes": 2649, "path": "large/data/relationship-runtime/manifest.json", "sha256": "f76d6f5df8127932a7d58cad28fa8070268cb307b09b5e6f1d3dc2dbac757a62" }, "review_status": { "bytes": 558, "path": "generated/assurance/review-status-report.json", "sha256": "330430f8f2048a4e6ed8032ece998a926238ebfaaa2121189d0c1dbc24cff1ec" } } }