Nursery World - Government renews call for parents to sign up for Tax-Free Childcare

The Government has resumed a drive to encourage parents to sign up for Tax-Free Childcare to pay for holiday clubs during the school summer holidays.

Official figures reveal that take-up of the scheme has been less than expected with £800 million being given back to the Treasury since the scheme began.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has released results of a YouGov poll that found almost a third of British parents (31 per cent) feel stressed trying to arrange childcare for the school holidays, in a bid to boost take up of the scheme.

The poll also found that just under a third of parents (30 per cent) worried about balancing their job and school holiday childcare and over half (54 per cent) admitted they look forward to their children returning to school in September.

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