Childcare

Finding childcare, financial support for childcare and childcare for school-age children

Find childcare

• Employing someone to work in your home
• Find a Sure Start Children's Centre
• Find an Ofsted inspection report
• Find a nursery school place
• Find a registered childminder
• Find free early education and childcare
• The law on leaving your child on their own
• Complain about a school
• Unpaid parental leave
• Complain about childcare

Financial support for childcare

• Check what help you could get with childcare costs
• Get childcare: step by step
• Get Tax-Free Childcare: step by step
• Care to Learn
• Childcare Grant
• Tax credits: work out your childcare costs

Childcare for school-age children

• Childcare out of school hours
• Find before and after school and holiday clubs