public body
Any body, corporate or otherwise, that performs its duties and exercises its powers for the public benefit, as opposed to private gain. Under the Local Government Act 1972, public bodies include local authorities, trustees, commissioners, and those who have duties to provide cemeteries and markets and act for the improvement of any place, or who have powers to issue or levy precepts. The Public Bodies Act 2011 empowered ministers to abolish or reform those public bodies listed in its schedules, with the aim of increasing accountability and controlling costs.

• chief constable
• chief rent
• child
• child abduction
• child abuse
• child arrangements order
• child assessment order
• child being looked after by a local authority
• child cruelty
• child destruction
• child employee
• child in care
• Child Maintenance Service
• child of the family
• child of unmarried parents
• Child Protection Conference
• child protection in divorce
• Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service
• children and young people’s plan
• children in care
• children in need
• children’s barred list
• Children’s Commissioner
• children’s guardian
• child safety order