Your Child Benefit may have stopped on 31 August on or after your child’s 16th birthday if they leave education or training. It continues if they stay in approved education or training, but you must tell the Child Benefit Office.
Education must be full-time (more than an average of 12 hours a week supervised study or course-related work experience) and can include:
- A levels or similar,
- T levels
- NVQs and other vocational qualifications up to level 3
- traineeships
Courses are not approved if paid for by an employer or “Ëœadvanced’, for example a university degree or BTEC Higher National Certificate.
Approved training should be unpaid and can include Foundation Apprenticeships, courses that are part of a job contract are not approved.
You can find links to inform The Child Benefit Office that your child is staying in training or education here:  https://www.gov.uk/child-benefit-16-19
