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Verify your child for childcare services

Use form CVF1 to verify your child for the childcare service.

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To verify your child you鈥檒l need your National Insurance number. If you鈥檝e never had a National Insurance number before you should contact one of the following:

  • if you鈥檙e a UK citizen contact the National Insurance Registrations Helpline on telephone: 0300 200 3502
  • if you鈥檙e not a UK citizen contact Jobcentre Plus on telephone: 0845 600 0643

Read Apply for a National Insurance number for further information.

Email HMRC to ask for this form in Welsh (Cymraeg).

Documents you need to send

You鈥檒l need to send the following documents with this form:

  • the birth certificate or adoption certificate for any child born in the UK
  • the child鈥檚 birth certificate and passport or travel documents used to enter the UK, if born elsewhere

Do not send photocopies.

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Updates to this page

Published 1 February 2017
Last updated 21 May 2018 show all updates
  1. Update to documents you need to send to verify children born in the UK or elsewhere.

  2. First published.

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