Child Trust Funds can be found using the Government Gateway service, which requires a login or registration. The Child Trust Fund unique reference number, or national insurance number is also needed.

A child can claim the money in their trust fund once they turn 18, with the average amount estimated to be around £2,000 due to growth over the years and extra money put in by family and friends.

Don’t worry if you can’t find your unique reference number or don’t have a National Insurance number, you should still be able to submit a request through Gov.uk, while some Child Trust Fund ...

Child Trust Funds were meant to help young people make a good start in adult life, writes money coach Talia Loderick. But four years after the first accounts matured, 671,000 of them remain ...

All children born between 1 September 2002 and 1 January 2011 were given a child trust fund. Much of this money is unclaimed. ... Plenty of the older children are now 18 — and an alarming number of ...

A Child Trust Fund is a tax-free savings account opened for children born between 1 September 2002 and 2 January 2011. ... England and Wales company registration number 2008885. ...

The revenue body is reminding 18- to 22-year-olds with unclaimed child trust funds (CTFs) about their windfalls – with the average savings pot worth £2,212. CTFs were set up for children born ...

When Max Prince turned 18 he got the Child Trust Fund his parents opened when he was born ... expecting to find at the very least £300 or so, we instead saw the number £12.39.

Latonya only learned she had a Child Trust fund when a tutor at her college told her about the scheme [BBC] Latonya Skye-Paterson had no idea a Child Trust Fund had been set up for her until her ...