Life Events

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Everyone has important events in their life, such as having a baby, moving house or getting married. These pages will provide you with useful information that will help you cope with these life events.

Sometimes we have advance notice of these events and are able to plan for them. Others happen unexpectedly and we can find ourselves suddenly having to cope with a variety of practical arrangements and responsibilities, when we have other things on our mind.

• Births - Information about how to plan for the birth of your baby, registering the birth and how to cope after the birth.
• Civil partnerships - Information designed to help you plan your civil partnership registration or ceremony.
• Deaths - Help and advice on how to cope with the loss of a loved one and how to register the death.
• Early years - Important advice and information to help make those early years of life easier, including information about health issues and starting nursery or school.
• Learning to drive - To help you get on the road we have gathered together information to answer all of your driving questions.
• Marriages - From registering your marriage to booking a venue, you can find out everything you need to know here.
• Moving house - We have identified a range of information, advice and tips that could be useful to make this stressful event that little bit easier.
• Older people - A listing of information and links of particular interest to older people.
• Parenting in Renfrewshire - information and guidance on a full range of services and advice for parents with children in Renfrewshire.
• Registration service - Everything you need to know about the Renfrewshire Council Registration Service, including contact details for your local registrars.
• Young people - A listing of information about services which are of particular interest to young people.

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