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The Childcare Voucher Scheme was a UK government initiative aimed at helping working parents benefit from tax efficiencies in order to save money on childcare. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] However, as of 4 October 2018, schemes are closed to new members as the system was phased out in favour of the tax-free childcare scheme.
In March 2013, PACEY's report Childcare – not just a job, a vocation, based on research carried out in association with Nursery World magazine and NannyTax, [15] found that low pay and poor status are concerns across the childcare profession – among childminders, nursery workers and nannies. In spite of this, the study found that for every ...
Child trust funds were opposed by the Liberal Democrats at the 2005 general election with the manifesto pledging to move the money into early years programmes instead. . Liberal Democrats have variously argued that recipients may spend the money unwisely, that the policy is overly restrictive in not allowing parents to access the money, and that the money could better be spent on pre-school ...
Parents with younger children are hardest-hit by a lack of Government support, says the IFS.
Hundreds of children’s care home placements are costing councils over £10,000 a week, new figures obtained by The Independent show.. English councils are spending these staggering amounts for ...
The Education Act 1962 made it a legal obligation for all LEAs to give full-time university students a maintenance grant. By the early 1980s the maintenance grant depended on parental income and for many students, about £300, was a minimum grant. There was no legal obligation on parents to make this up to the full grant.
The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's government, reporting to Parliament.Ofsted's role is to make sure that organisations providing education, training and childcare services in England do so to a high standard for children and students.
Another £1.8 billion will be used to expand Government-funded childcare, with a further £15 million to help open nurseries in schools.