Paying for childcare
This website will help you to understand the different types of financial support you may be able to receive to help you with the costs of your childcare.
The type of help you can receive will depend on your individual circumstances, but you can check here to see whether there is any help available for you while you are working, studying, in training or you have additional needs. Read more.
Tax Credit Checker
Are you missing out on financial help with your childcare costs?
Do you know whether you are eligible for the childcare element of Working Tax Credit? Use our Tax Credit Checker – the simple online resource that will help you find out if you could be receiving help towards the costs of paying for eligible childcare services.
Find out if you are eligible.
Calling on parents to take part in our survey
We want to hear from you about your views and experiences. We are currently doing some research into the financial support and subsidies that parents can get such as tax credits, childcare vouchers, and free hours in pre-school for 3 and 4 year olds. We would like to know how many of you are entitled to any help with your childcare costs, and how well you think the existing financial support works.
The results of the survey will help us with a project we are doing on how to provide good quality childcare at a price parents can afford.
Please complete the survey by 29 May 2009. All respondents will be entered into a prize draw to win £25 of high street shopping vouchers. To be entered for the draw, please make sure you include your contact details at the end of the survey.
Thank you for taking part and sharing your views and experiences.