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• Updated: 4 December 2006

Check if your council offers free early education and childcare.

Get help with savings if you're on a low income (Help to Save) - how it works, what you'll get, eligibility, how it affects your benefits and how to apply online.

• How it works

  Help to Save is a type of savings account. It allows certain people…

• What you’ll get

  You can earn 2 tax-free bonuses over 4 years. You’ll get any bonuses…

• Eligibility

  You can open a Help to Save account if you’re receiving Universal Credit…

• How it will affect your benefits

  Saving money though a Help to Save account could affect your eligibility…

• How to apply

  You’ll need to sign in to set up a Help to Save account. If you do not…

Explore this quality-assured free learning civil servants can do or book now to get the skills they need to deliver brilliant services.

• Updated: 16 April 2026

Applicants proposing to open a free school along with their applications forms, impact assessments and pre-registration inspections notes.

• Updated: 17 March 2023

Every adult in the UK is eligible to take free, newly benchmarked courses to gain practical AI skills for work.

• Updated: 28 January 2026

Resources and training to learn English.

• Updated: 3 November 2025

Find out how to apply for a free qualification that could help you gain skills and improve your wage and job prospects.

• Updated: 29 July 2025

Use form P11D WS4 if you're an employer and need to work out the cash equivalent of providing loans to an employee.

Guidance to help provide free meals to disadvantaged 16 to 18 year old students in further education funded institutions.

• Updated: 11 June 2025