child travelling without parents - advice please!

[nancy75]

hi i wonder if anybody can help?
my dd is going to spain with my parents, her surname is my dps name and obviously my parents have a different surname. do they just need her passport or will they need some other kind of document to say they can take her out of the country?
thanks.

oh please help!

I don't know about grandparents, but I have to travel with DD's birth certificate to show that I am indeed her mother (we also have different names).

Bumping because I'm interested in this too as I was thinking of sending DD with my mum at some point next year.

thanks brangelina, i will give my parents dds birth cert to take, opefully that will be enough.

You will need to write a letter for your parents to take with them authorising them to have her with them. We went on holiday in half-term with one of DD's friends and this is what the passport office told me. Of course no-one at passport control asked to see it when we went through!

there was a thread about this a few weeks ago. I used to nanny and travelled with the children all the time on my own. I had a letter confirming who I was and that I was authorised to travel with the children. I also had a letter authorising me to allow any emergency medical treatment that may be required.