Parenting, childcare and children's services

Financial support, finding and providing childcare, pregnancy and birth, adoption and fostering, looked-after children, safeguarding.

Services

  • 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.

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

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

  • Child Benefit - child benefit rates, eligibility, how to claim, child benefit claim form CH2.

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

Guidance and regulation

News and communications

Research and statistics

Policy papers and consultations

Transparency and freedom of information releases

Organisations