Reignhead Primary School

Dear Parents/Carers, 

Please find some information below regarding Tax-Free Childcare. 

What is Tax-Free Childcare?

Tax-Free Childcare can help with the cost of paying for childcare.

You’ll need to set up a childcare account, which both you and the government will pay into. You can then use this money to pay your childcare provider.

For every £8 you pay into the account, the government will top it up by £2.

The total top up you can get for each child is £500 every 3 months (up to £2,000 a
year). This goes up to £1,000 every 3 months if your child is disabled (up to £4,000 a
year).

You’ll usually need to be working (or returning to work) and your child must be 11 or younger (16 or younger if they’re disabled).

Your childcare provider must be signed up to the Tax-Free Childcare scheme.

Reignhead Primary School are signed up to the scheme, you can pay for breakfast club and wrap around care using your tax free childcare account.

What you can use Tax-Free Childcare for?

You can use it to pay for: 
· childminders, nurseries and nannies
· after school clubs, play schemes and holiday clubs
You must use an ‘approved childcare’ provider to get Tax-Free childcare, so your
provider must be one of the following: 
· a registered childminder, nanny, playscheme, nursery or club
· a childminder or nanny with a registered childminder agency or childcare agency
· a registered school
· a home care worker working for a registered home care agency

Whether you can get Tax-Free Childcare depends on:

· your child’s age and circumstances
· if you’re working
· your income (and your partner’s income, if you have one)
· your immigration status

You cannot claim if any of the following are true:

• your child does not usually live with you
  · you foster the child you’re applying for
  · you or your partner have an expected adjusted net income of over £100,000 in the
  current tax year
  · you or your partner get a childcare bursary or grant
• If you claim either Universal Credit or childcare vouchers, you cannot get Tax-Free
  Childcare at the same time. Find out what to do before claiming Tax-Free Childcare.