£2,000 per child

Fielding childcare has signed up to enable parents and carers to use the new 'tax free childcare' scheme.

The new 'tax free childcare' scheme will be rolled out in April 2017 - and it's worth £2,000 a child. Tax-Free Childcare is an online government service for parents to make payments to their childcare providers. For every £8 a parent pays into their Childcare account, the government will add an extra £2 to their Childcare account.

The government will begin inviting parents to apply, starting with parents of the youngest children first. Check whether Tax-Free Childcare is the best offer for you using the government's childcare calculator: 

• https://www.gov.uk/childcare-calculator

While parents cannot make payments using both Tax-Free Childcare and childcare vouchers, childcare providers who are signed up to Tax-Free Childcare can receive payments from both schemes. This is good news for those parents who work for companies that do not offer a childcare voucher system and, for the first time, the self-employed.

If you are on an employee scheme, it is important to note, that you will not be able to apply for both.

Once signed up each child will have a Tax-Free Childcare reference number. Please can parents let us know your unique reference number, this will help us identify your payments.