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How to apply for free childcare if you're working.
If you're a parent registered for Tax-Free Childcare or free childcare if you're working, sign in to pay into your account, reconfirm your eligibility, update your details.
Information on childcare for service families within the UK and overseas.
Check if your council offers free early education and childcare
Check what help you might be able to get with childcare schemes like tax credits, Tax-Free Childcare, childcare vouchers and free childcare or education for 2 to 4-year-olds.
Help with the cost of paying for approved childcare - Tax-Free Childcare, 15 and 30 hours childcare, childcare vouchers, tax credits, Learner Support.
Evaluating the effectiveness of the 2018 to 2019 Tax-Free Childcare campaign.
Finding childcare, financial support for childcare and childcare for school-age children
What Tax-Free Childcare is, eligibility and how to apply
How to find childcare, get help paying for it and what to do if your circumstances change.
Childcare for your children before and after school - after-school clubs, breakfast clubs, homework clubs, childminders
If you pay for childcare while you go to work, Universal Credit can pay some of your childcare costs.
How and when to apply for childcare places and schools.
Includes giving birth, fostering, adopting, benefits for children, childcare and schools
How to apply and get a code for free childcare for your child aged 9 months to 4-years old if you’re working.
Hundreds of thousands of families set to benefit as working parents of 9-month-olds can now apply for government-funded childcare for first time.
Find out more information on how to get tax-free employer supported childcare.
Check if you're eligible for Tax-Free Childcare, how to apply and how to pay your childcare provider.
Sign in and use your childcare provider account if you’ve signed up to receive Tax-Free Childcare payments from parents.
Find out if you must apply to join the compulsory part of the Childcare Register instead of one of the other types of childcare provider.
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