Financial support for childcare

Childcare calculator, Childcare Grant, Care to Learn, tax credits, help with costs.

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Services

• Get Tax-Free Childcare: step by step

  Check if you're eligible for Tax-Free Childcare, how to apply and how to pay your childcare provider.

• Tax-Free Childcare

  What Tax-Free Childcare is, eligibility and how to apply

• Check you're eligible for free childcare if you're working

  Find out if you're eligible for free childcare for 2 to 4 year olds if you live in England - 2 year olds can get 15 hours per week, 3 to 4 year olds 30 hours.

• Help paying for childcare

  Help with the cost of paying for approved childcare - Tax-Free Childcare, 15 and 30 hours childcare, childcare vouchers, tax credits, Learner Support.

• Apply for free childcare if you're working

  How to apply for free childcare if you're working.

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Guidance and regulation

• Young person’s guide to the Children and Families Act 2014
  • Guidance
  • 30 September 2014
  • Department for Education

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News and communications

• Childcare applications for parents of 9-month-olds now open
  • 12 May 2024
  • Department for Education
  • Press release
• Hop to it: save on Easter childcare costs with Tax-Free Childcare
  • 12 March 2024
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • Press release
• Working parents to benefit from childcare boost worth up to £1,630 per month
  • 28 June 2023
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Press release
• Crack your Easter childcare costs with tax-free top ups 
  • 23 March 2023
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • Press release
• More than 401,300 families saved on childcare costs in September
  • 16 November 2022
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• Reducing Parental Conflict programme 2022 to 2025 – Local Grant evaluation: Interim report
  • 7 October 2024
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Research
• Research into the labour market impacts of Tax-Free Childcare
  • 21 September 2023
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • Research
• Understanding whether the current name of Tax-Free Childcare acts as a barrier to take-up
  • 27 January 2022
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • Research
• Tax Free Childcare: understanding the barriers to sign-up in 2021
  • 27 January 2022
  • HM Revenue & Customs
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• The impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on childcare use for Tax-Free Childcare customers: 2021 survey
  • 27 January 2022
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • Research

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Organisations

• HM Revenue & Customs
• Department for Education
• Department for Work & Pensions

• Student Loans Company