Financial Help for Parents
Why is this important?
Financial support from Government helps parents reduce their childcare costs. By ensuring you understand and signpost parents to this information, you are able to help them reduce their outgoings. Providers need to understand this as it can impact decisions around increasing fees.
Description
Resources to help providers understand the different funding sources available to parents.
Supports
Parent Relationships. Sustainability. Fee setting
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Guidance and resources
Guidance and resources to promote 30 hours tax-free childcare. The Best Start in Life Website (beststartinlife.gov.uk) officially replaced the Childcare Choices website as the main source of information for early education and childcare support as of 1 September 2025. Visitors to the current Childcare Choices website will be automatically redirected.
from Childcare Choices
Childcare –
Childcare Information for Parents
from GOV.UK
Get Tax-Free Childcare: step by step
Step by step guide for parents to apply for tax-free childcare
from GOV.UK
How to get help with the cost of childcare: government-funded support in England
Video for parents about how to get help with the cost of childcare
from Department for Education
How Universal Credit Childcare works
A guide to Universal Credit. The Best Start in Life Website (beststartinlife.gov.uk) officially replaced the Childcare Choices website as the main source of information for early education and childcare support as of 1 September 2025. Visitors to the current Childcare Choices website will be automatically redirected.
from Childcare Choices
