Official Statistics

Tax-Free Childcare Statistics, March 2020

These statistics provide information about families using Tax-Free Childcare.

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Tax-Free Childcare Statistics Commentary March 2020

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Tax-Free Childcare Statistics Tables March 2020

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Tax-Free Childcare Statistics provides information on the numbers of families and children with open and used Tax-Free Childcare accounts and the amount of government top-up they have received. The statistics also include open and used accounts:

  • for families with a self-employed parent
  • for disabled children
  • by UK regions
  • by child age

For this publication, annual breakdowns of used accounts by local authority and Westminster Parliamentary Constituency have been published for the first time (tables 7 to 10). Additional information has also been included for the first time on Table 6 for opened and used accounts at the child level by Government Office Region.

This is a quarterly publication.

Published 20 May 2020
Last updated 27 May 2020 + show all updates
  1. Amendment to statistical tables due to rounding errors in the following places: Table 1 – Government Top up for 2018-19 changed from £116.7m to £117.0m Table 2 – Government Top up for 2018-19 changed from £117.1m to £117.0m

  2. First published.