Parenting, childcare and children's services

Financial support, finding and providing childcare, pregnancy and birth, adoption and fostering, looked-after children, safeguarding.

Services

  • If you're a parent registered for Tax-Free Childcare or free childcare if you're working, sign in to pay into your account, reconfirm your eligibility, update your details.

  • Check if you're eligible for Tax-Free Childcare, how to apply and how to pay your childcare provider.

  • What Tax-Free Childcare is, eligibility and how to apply.

  • Help with the cost of paying for approved childcare - Tax-Free Childcare, 15 and 30 hours childcare, childcare vouchers, Learner Support.

  • Child Benefit - child benefit rates, eligibility, how to claim, child benefit claim form CH2.

Guidance and regulation

Research and statistics

Policy papers and consultations

Transparency and freedom of information releases