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If you're a parent registered for Tax-Free Childcare or 30 hours childcare, sign in to pay into your account, reconfirm your eligibility, update your details.

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

• Childcare you can get help paying for

  You can get help paying for childcare if it’s provided by a: registered…

• 15 hours free childcare for 3 and 4-year-olds

  All 3 to 4-year-olds in England can get 570 free hours per year. It’s…

• Free education and childcare for 2-year-olds

  Your 2-year-old can get free childcare if you live in England and get any…

• Tax credits and childcare

  If you already claim tax credits, you can add an extra amount of Working…

• Universal Credit and childcare

  You may be able to claim back up to 85% of your childcare costs if you’re…

• Childcare vouchers and other employer schemes

  The following schemes are closed to new applicants: childcare vouchers…

• Help with childcare while you study

  School or sixth form You could get weekly payments through Care to Learn…

Find your child's school term, half term and holiday dates on your local council's website

Who is eligible for 30 hours free childcare and how you can get it.

Statutory guidance for schools and colleges on safeguarding children and safer recruitment.

• Updated: 6 June 2023

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

How to apply for 30 hours free childcare.

The standards that school and childcare providers must meet for the learning, development and care of children from birth to 5.

• Updated: 3 September 2021

New government restrictions to student visa routes will cut net migration while protecting the economic benefits students bring to the UK.

• Updated: 23 May 2023

The home of Department for Education on GOV.UK. The Department for Education is responsible for children’s services and education, including early years, schools, higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and wide…

• Updated: 23 March 2023

Check school performance tables (‘league tables’), Ofsted reports and financial information.

Explains how to apply for a free level 3 qualification. These courses could help you improve your wage outcomes and job prospects, and gain skills that employers value.

• Updated: 11 April 2023

Skills Bootcamps offer free, flexible courses of up to 16 weeks. You'll be offered a job interview with an employer once you complete the course.

• Updated: 15 May 2023

Check if your child can get free school meals - and find out how to apply on your local authority’s website.

The age you can leave school in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

You can be prosecuted if your child has unauthorised absence from school - truancy, help with getting your child to school, and legal action to enforce school attendance

The English national curriculum means children in different schools (at primary and secondary level) study the same subjects to similar standards - it's split into key stages with tests

Who has parental responsibility for looking after children, and how to apply for parental responsibility if you were unmarried to the mother or are not on the birth certificate

Use this service to apply for a postgraduate teacher training course.

Guidance on the suspension and permanent exclusion of pupils from local-authority-maintained schools, academies and pupil referral units.

• Updated: 25 May 2023