30 FREE hours from 3 YEARS:

Where both parents or a single parent are working 16 hours or more per week a child might be eligible for an additional 570 hours per year, often taken as an additional 15 hours per week for 38 weeks a year,

Parents will need to apply to HMRC to get their code and revalidate the code every 3 months to keep it active.

To apply for a 30‐hour code visit: www.childcarechoices.gov.uk

These hours can be taken (term-time only) between 8am - 4.30pm. From September 2017 your child will be eligible for 30 hours free childcare if you meet the following criteria:

• You earn or expect to earn the equivalent to 16 hours at National Minimum or Living Wage over the coming three months. (This equates to £120 a week (or c.£6,000 a year) for each parent over 25 years old or £112.80 a week (or c.£5,800 a year) for each parent between 21 and 24 years old).

• This applies whether you are in paid employment, self-employed or on zero hours contract.

• The parent (and their partner where applicable) are seeking the free childcare to enable them to work.

• Where one or both parents are on maternity, paternity, shared parental or adoption leave, or if they are on statutory sick leave.

  You will NOT receive 30 free hours if:

• Either parent has an income of more than £100,000.

• Either parent is a non-EEA national and subject to immigration control (and has no recourse to public funds)

Tax Free Childcare

• For working families, including the self‐employed, in the UK

• Earning under £100k and at least £152 per week (equal to 16 hours at the National Minimum or Living Wage) each

• Who aren't receiving Tax Credits, Universal Credit or childcare vouchers

• With children aged 0‐11 (or 0‐16 if disabled)

• For every £8 the parent pays into an online account, the government will add an extra £2, up to £2,000 per child per year, this gives parents a 20% discount on their childcare fees!

Universal Tax Credits

• For working families claiming Universal Credit, with children under 17.

• Parents can claim back up to 85% of eligible childcare costs. They could get up to £646 a month for one child, or £1,108 for two or more.

• They can use tax credits for childcare to help pay Ofsted registered childcare or approved childcare.

• Both parents, or one parent in single parent households, must be working, or they are due to start work, and are claiming Universal Credit.

• Parents can’t claim tax credits at the same time as Tax Credit or Tax‐Free Childcare.

Parents who are Studying

Care to Learn ‐ some parents could get weekly payments through Care to Learn if they are under 20 at the start of a publicly funded course, such as a school or sixth form.

Discretionary Learner Support ‐ a parent can apply for Discretionary  Learner Support to pay for childcare if they are 19 or over and in further education, for example, if they are studying for an NVQ, BTEC or PGCE.

Childcare Grant ‐ a parent can apply for a Childcare Grant if they are  in full‐time higher education to pay for childcare costs for children under 15 (or under 17 if they have special needs).

Supported by the Families Information Service at Derby City Council and managed by Heather Ryder‐Carrington (t): 01332 642603