make significant savings for your company and employees. .. Home Page Approved ChildcareEmployer Childcare vouchers cover children up to the age of 16 but can only be used to pay registered/approved childcarers. These include:
- Childminders, nurseries and playschemes registered by Ofsted;
- Out of hours clubs run by a school on the school premises or by a local authority;
- Childcare schemes run by approved providers;
- An approved foster-carer (the care must be for a child who is not the foster carer’s foster child);
- In England only, a childcarer who is approved by Ofsted to care for your child or children in your own home – these are childminders who have further qualified to become “home childcarers”;
- In England only, a childcarer approved under the Childcare Approval Scheme;
- In England only, childcare given in the child’s own home by a domiciliary worker or nurse from a registered agency; and
- In Scotland only, childcare given in the child’s own home by (or introduced through) childcare agencies, including sitter services and nanny agencies, which must be registered.
Approved Childcare
Request Info Pack Employee Childcare Provider Contact Us Log In NB: Childcare provided by a relative*of the child is generally not eligible for help via the childcare element of the Working Tax credit or the tax and NICs exemptions on employer-supported childcare. The sole exception to this is the situation in which a relative has been registered or approved as a child-carer, and happens to care for a related child, but whose primary or main paid child-caring is for children to whom they are not related. In short being a paid child-carer for the child to whom they are related is INCIDENTAL to their usual paid child-caring. This care must be provided outside the child's own home.
*A relative of the child means a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, brother or sister --whether by blood, half blood, marriage, or affinity.
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