What happens if you miss the deadline to register your baby?

[alittleteapot]

We've got our appointment in the morning but I've gone down with upset stomach and fever. It's the last day we're supposed to do it (i.e. the 42nd day) what will happen if I call to try and postpone???

I was told, when I registered my daughter right at the deadline, that they regularly give extensions to people in your situation.

Give them a call. They're not going to drag you out of your sick bed, just to sign a piece of paper.

I work at a register office. You won't incur any kind of consequence for delaying registering. After you miss the six week deadline, a standard letter is sent to you reminding you to register and pointing out that you cannot make a claim for Child Benefit without your birth certificate. Should you delay it further, I'd be surprised if you received any more hassle than subsequent correspondence or phonecalls about why you haven't made it in yet.

However, if you let it slide for many weeks without communication, they may contact Social Services - although I've never known this to happen because everybody registers eventually.

I have some real birth certificate name horror stories: Blueberri Cheesecake, anybody? Vincent the Villain? Roxy Fox?

Whoa, zombie thread -I posted on it under an old NN about MIL getting her pension late because of not being registered online time. It caused all sorts of problems in her later years, for her and then DH when he was her POA and then executor.

So...I'd guess if you don't register your baby at all, Lksla, you will be making their lives and even the lives of future grandchildren difficult. How will they be able to get a passport? Driving license?

They take the baby back and put it in the 'pool' and then someone else who promises they will actually give it a name can come along, take a ticket (it's a bit like a cheese counter) and BAM your baby is theirs!

So name your babies people.

Why do we feel we have to register our children into a slavory system ? I’m not due for a while yet but considering not registering as that is my right surely. Why would our babies be automatically registers and given a name if we fail to do so ? I’m sure this cannot b true where I live. And info would be greatly appreciated

Very true thank you for that thought ☺️ It’s just with society today and our human rights laws being broken every day I don’t think I want my child being registered into the system.

I’m sure this cannot b true where I live.

Where do you live, that you consider to be a 'slavery system'?

Most of us are in the UK, which most certainly isn't , and many of the posts on this thread are just jokes. (Not mine, years ago when I was grimmathenome, MIL's 'official birthday' was a right pain and did cost her 2 months state pension. )

@Lksla because if you live in a society then you have to abide by its rules. Your child wouldn’t have a birth certificate if you didn’t register. They wouldn’t be entitled to child benefit, or a passport, or to register with a GP, or to open a bank account, or to access the schooling system. Why would you inflict that on your child?

I also see from your other thread that you don't intend to vaccinate your child. I feel so sorry for this poor baby growing inside you oblivious about what's to come.
If you are fortunate enough that your child remains healthy it won't be because you didn't vaccinate, it'll be because we did. You're welcome.

So where can you live where your not stuck in society ? I’m not sure your knowledge of society and what’s to come for our children in there future is qualified enough for a opinion but thank you anyway. We all live in a slavery system but a lot of today’s society don’t get it and let the government take away out huma rights. If everyone is ok with that then your in the right place, I’m sorry I want my child to live a free and happy life

Ok. You are neatly summing up why it’s not possible to argue with crazy, so I’m just going to back slowly away now. I hope, for your children’s sake, you come to your senses.

And I suppose you think schooling is education 😂😂 if your children are getting their education from just school then you are seriously the crazy one