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Changing your details with our services as a resident

On this page:

Benefits
Camden Account
Council tax
Council tenancy
Education
Electoral (voting)
Housing register
Library
Parking permits
Registration (birth, marriage and civil partnership certificates)
Other services

Benefits

This service stores your name and title. 

To request a change, you need to email a copy of your deed poll, marriage certificate or civil partnership certificate to benefits@camden.gov.uk. 

Camden Account 

This service stores your name. 

To request a change, call Contact Camden on 020 7974 4444, Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm (except bank holidays). You’ll need to email us a copy of your deed poll, marriage certificate or civil partnership certificate – we'll let you know who to send it to. 

Council tax  

This service stores your name and title. 

To request a change, you need to email a copy of your deed poll, marriage certificate or civil partnership certificate to ctax.revenues@camden.gov.uk. 

Council tenancy 

This service stores your name and gender. 

To request a change, call Contact Camden on 020 7974 4444, Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm (except bank holidays). You’ll need to email us a copy of your deed poll, marriage or civil partnership certificate, or Gender Recognition Certificate – we'll let you know who to send it to. 

Education 

This service stores the name and gender of pupils and parents or carers. 

To change the name of a parent or carer before a child starts at a school, you need to send a copy of your deed poll, marriage certificate or civil partnership certificate using the online e-admissions system or by email to admissions@camden.gov.uk. You do not need to send evidence to change a parent or carer’s gender. 

To change a child’s name before they start at a school, you need to send a copy of the deed poll using the online e-admissions system or by email to admissions@camden.gov.uk. You will also need to send proof of their date of birth for verification. 

Once pupils have started at a school, you should contact the school to change any details. 

Electoral (voting) 

This service stores your name, and title is optional. 

To change your name, you need to complete a new application on GOV.UK, which is verified with information held by the Department for Work and Pensions.  

Or, you can complete a change of name form and provide evidence, such as a copy of your deed poll, marriage certificate or civil partnership certificate. You can provide this evidence by: 

  • post to Electoral Registration and Elections Office, Camden Town Hall, Judd Street, London, WC1H 9JE 

  • in person at the Electoral Registration and Elections Office at our Town Hall on Judd Street, by appointment 

Email electoral.services@camden.gov.uk to request a form. 

Housing register 

This service stores your name and gender. 

To request a change, you should report a change in your circumstances. You’ll need to provide a copy of your deed poll, marriage or civil partnership certificate, or a Gender Recognition Certificate. You'll be told where to send the copies to once your report has been looked at. 

Library 

This service stores your name. 

To change your name, you can do this yourself in your account and you do not need to give any proof. If you need help doing this, speak to staff at your local library and they can show you how. 

Parking permits 

This service stores your name. 

Most people can change their details in their Camden Account, in the ‘Parking permits’ section. We cross-reference using supporting documents such as deed poll, council tax statement and DVLA V5 document, so you may need to send us new supporting documents.  

If you get assistance with your permits or if you cannot change the details in your Camden Account, you can request a change by calling Contact Camden on 020 7974 4444, Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm (except bank holidays). 

Registration (birth, marriage and civil partnership certificates) 

In most instances you cannot change the name and sex recorded on a birth certificate. 

If in the first 12 months you give your child a different forename/names, you can apply for a space 17 Certificate of Name Given In Baptism or Certificate of Name Not Given in Baptism. 

If you had intended to call your child something else, you may be able to make a correction to the birth certificate. 

There are fees for making changes to certificates.

If a child's parents marry or enter into a civil partnership or the father's name needs to be added to the certificate, you can apply to re-register the birth.

Amendments can be added to certificates if you change your gender and have a Gender Recognition Certificate. Amendments are added as a note in the margin of the entry and you'll be able to order new certificates once the process is completed.

To request an amendment, you need to complete the correction form and post it with your evidence (or certified copies of your evidence) to:

  • Camden Registrars, Camden Town Hall, Judd Street, London, WC1H 9JE

If you have any questions, email crs@camden.gov.uk.

Other services 

If your name, title or gender are registered with any other service and you want to update them, contact each service to find out how or get in touch with Contact Camden.