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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.
How to apply for free childcare if you're working.
How to apply and get a code for free childcare for your 2 to 4 year old if you're working.
Help with the cost of paying for approved childcare - Tax-Free Childcare, 15 and 30 hours childcare, childcare vouchers, tax credits, Learner Support.
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.
Find out if you're eligible for free childcare for 2 to 4 year olds.
What Tax-Free Childcare is, eligibility and how to apply
If you pay for childcare while you go to work, Universal Credit can pay some of your childcare costs.
How to find childcare, get help paying for it and what to do if your circumstances change.
Check if your council offers free early education and childcare
How to apply for Tax-Free Childcare.
Sign in and use your childcare provider account if you’ve signed up to receive Tax-Free Childcare payments from parents.
Childcare Grants for full-time students in higher education - grants, CCG1, CCG2 forms, how to apply, eligibility
Find out how to sign up to Tax-Free Childcare and get a childcare provider account to receive payments from parents using the scheme.
Childcare for your children before and after school - after-school clubs, breakfast clubs, homework clubs, childminders
Guidance for applicants and registered providers of childcare on domestic premises.
Information on childcare for service families within the UK and overseas.
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.
Requirements you must meet if you are an Ofsted-registered out of school club, nursery or other type of daycare on the compulsory part of the Childcare Register.
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