The Government initiative Care to Learn?, which begins next month, is for young parents - either mothers or fathers - who attend sixth form school or further education colleges or are in work-based learning. The Department for Education and Skills will pay up to 5,000 per child each year towards the costs of all types of registered childcare to enable their parents to learn, study or train for employment and let them retain a childcare place during the holidays.
However, the DfES said it will not pay for unregistered childcare, or for childcare for those continuing learning or training that they started before this September. It will also not pay childcare costs for anyone under the age of 16 until September 2004.
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