Children's ID question

Tupperware_Queen

This may seem a stupid question, but I need to open accounts for my boys, they have passports, but they expired last month, can I still use these as their main form of ID? I am now separated from their Dad, and I don't really want him to know that I am putting money aside for them.

edited to add - he has their birth certificates, and asking for them would raise questions which I'd rather not answer

madgagoo

No, I'm afraid that expired passports are as much good as an ashtray on a motorbike.

You can order copies of birth certificates online though, from the GRO http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/default.asp which would stop you having to ask the father. It does cost but might be the easiest way - certainly cheaper than a new passport!