Employer Supported Childcare
There are a number of ways your employer can support you with your childcare costs. These can save you both money through tax and National Insurance Contributions (NICs) exemptions.
Examples are
- childcare vouchers – up to £55 per week (£243 per month)
- payments to childcare providers – up to £55 per week (£243 per month)
- workplace childcare provision – up to the full amount for which the childcare is subsidised
Childcare vouchers
Childcare vouchers are a way of paying for childcare, usually via a paper voucher redeemable by the childcare provider.
Childcare vouchers are usually administered by a voucher provider for an administration fee.
Fact sheets explaining how the voucher scheme works and with lists of childcare voucher providers and their contacts are available in the attached files section below.
Please note: if you are a member of Haringey staff contact your designated HR advisor for further information.
|back to topChildcare subsidies
This is an amount paid to a childcare provider to subsidise the cost of care for staff. An example would be a £5 a day subsidy for a holiday playscheme.
|back to topWorkplace provision
Workplace, or in-house provision, is where the employer is wholly or partly responsible for financing and managing the provision or the care is provided on premises which are made available solely by the employer.
In practice this means either a workplace nursery or an in-house /on-site holiday playscheme.
A contractor may run the scheme as long as it fits the above criteria.
It is advisable when using different forms of employer supported childcare to be aware that these may effect tax credit entitlements.
Parents should be aware that participating in salary sacrifice schemes could have an effect on earning related benefits such as state pensions and statutory maternity and paternity leave.
Further information can be found in the childcare section of the HM Revenue and Customs website (see link in external links section below).
|back to topFurther Information
Tel 020 8489 1000
Fax 020 8489 3760
Email childcare@haringey.gov.uk
Website Family Information Services Directory.
Attached Files
| Filename | Filetype | Size |
|---|---|---|
childcare voucher companies.pdf  | 50 KB | |
| childcare vouchers administered by a voucher company.pdf | 103 KB | |
| how to self-administer a childcare voucher scheme..pdf | 1369 KB | |
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