The Childcare Choices website provides information on the government’s childcare schemes and explains how parents can pre-register or apply. It also includes a childcare calculator to show eligible families how much they could receive.
For parents across the UK, Tax-Free Childcare will cut childcare costs by up to £2,000 per year for each child under 12 years old, or £4,000 per year for disabled children under 17 years old. The programme will be rolled out through the year, with all eligible parents able to receive it by the end of 2017. From September, working parents of three and four-year-olds living in England will also be entitled to the new 30 hours free childcare offer, worth around £5,000 per child. Parents will only need to make a single application for both schemes when their children become eligible.
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The Childcare Choices website includes a Childcare Calculator for parents to compare all the government’s childcare offers and check what works best for their families.
Working parents can start applying for help with their childcare costs through the new digital childcare service.
Through the Childcare Choices website parents can also pre-register for email alerts that will notify them when they can apply, as well as providing details of existing government childcare offers.
Parents of children who will be under 4 on 31 August 2017, and parents of disabled children under 17, will be able to apply through the childcare service for Tax-Free Childcare. Parents of 2-3 year olds who will be eligible for a 30 hours free childcare place in September, and are younger than school age, can apply through the childcare service and start arranging their place with their childcare provider. Parents with more than one child can apply for all their children when their youngest child becomes eligible.
All of this can be done through the government’s Childcare Choices website.
CIPP comment
The Policy team would be interested to hear members’ views:
Are you being affected by the rollout of Tax-Free Childcare (TFC)? Is there a reduction in employee requests for childcare vouchers? Are you experiencing an increase in questions from employees? Do the UK wide differences in childcare provision make a difference? Maybe you are a childcare provider - how are you finding the new system? Have you been able to register easily? Can you track payments authorised through and processed from the TFC accounts?
All feedback is welcome so please do take a moment to share your experiences so far by emailing us at policy@cipp.org.uk .
Thank you.
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