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Finding childcare, financial support for childcare and childcare for school-age children
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Check if your council offers free early education and childcare.
Help with the cost of paying for approved childcare - Tax-Free Childcare, 15 and 30 hours childcare, childcare vouchers, Learner Support.
Childcare arrangements for all ages and early years provision for children who are 5 years of age or younger.
Information on childcare for Service families within the UK and overseas.
If you live in England and work you may be able to get free childcare for a child aged 9 months to 4 years old. Check if you're eligible and how and when to apply.
Check what help you could get with childcare through Tax-Free Childcare, Free Childcare for Working Parents and free education and childcare for 2 to 4-year-olds.
How to register as a childminder or nanny: the Ofsted Childcare Register, the Early Years Register, who can register, how to apply.
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