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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.
How to apply for free childcare if you're working.
Sign in and use your childcare provider account if you’ve signed up to receive Tax-Free Childcare payments from parents.
Evaluating the effectiveness of the 2018 to 2019 Tax-Free Childcare campaign.
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.
Information on childcare for service families within the UK and overseas.
Find out how to sign up to Tax-Free Childcare and get a childcare provider account to receive payments from parents using the scheme.
What Tax-Free Childcare is, eligibility and how to apply
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, tax credits, Learner Support.
Call HMRC if you need help applying for Tax-Free Childcare, applying for free childcare if you're working or using your online childcare account
Ask HMRC to review your Tax-Free Childcare or 30 hours free childcare application if you disagree with a decision that you are not eligible.
Working families can save up to £2,000 a year on their childcare bills with Tax-Free Childcare.
Check if you're eligible for Tax-Free Childcare, how to apply and how to pay your childcare provider.
More nursery and early years places and spaces to be delivered, with an online childcare eligibility checker to give information about new support.
How and when to apply for childcare places and schools.
Finding childcare, financial support for childcare and childcare for school-age children
Information for families, including support for separated families, single parents and children.
Childcare for your children before and after school - after-school clubs, breakfast clubs, homework clubs, childminders
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