Birth registration
Tell us once
When you have a new baby, there are lots of things that need to be done. One of these things is contacting government departments and local council services that need to be told about the birth. Until now, you had to contact all of them individually.
Calderdale Council is providing a service which can help you with this.
How the service can help you
You often have to contact several government departments and parts of the local council to give them the same information about the birth. It’s important that you do this as soon as possible as it may affect your entitlements, such as Child Benefit, Working Tax Credits or Child Tax Credits.
We want to make this easier for you, so if you want to use the service after registering the birth we will ask you some simple questions. This means that you won’t have to send a copy of the birth certificate in the post as we will contact the organisations that need to know on your behalf.
The following organisations can be contacted if you ask us to:
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Jobcentre Plus
- Housing Benefit Office
- Council Tax Benefit Office
- Library Services
- Children’s Services (Family Information Services)
- HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
- Child Benefit
- Child Tax Credit or Working Tax Credit.
Using this service can, where certain conditions are met, help to speed up an application for Child Tax Credit or Working Tax Credit with HMRC if you are receiving benefits that relate to your income (for example Income Support, or some types of Jobseekers Allowance or Employment and Support Allowance). Please ask the Advisor if you want to know more about this.
Information you will need to use this service
To make sure the right information is given to any organisations we contact for you and so that you get the most out of the service it will help if you can bring along with you the following information:
- Birth Certificate (you may be registering the birth directly before you use this service)
- the National Insurance number(s) of the person(s) named on the birth register and / or date of birth, address and telephone number.
- details of any benefits the person(s) named on the birth register are receiving / have applied for
- the partner of the person named on the birth register, (if they live in the same household) including their National Insurance number and / or date of birth and information about any benefits they may be receiving.
You will need to get the permission from these people to tell us about them before you use the service.
