Nursery World - Government seeks views on who should run tax-free childcare

The Treasury has launched a further five-week consultation on Tax-Free Childcare in the face of a legal challenge from childcare voucher companies.

The consultation will consider how parents’ childcare accounts will operate.

Earlier this year, the Government came under fire from voucher providers for failing to consult on the issue, after announcing that the scheme would be administered by National Savings & Investments, a Government body with no experience of working with childcare providers.

The Childcare Voucher Providers' Association launched legal proceedings against the Government. As a result the Treasury is conducting a further five-week consultation.

It is now consulting on ways that it could deliver childcare accounts itself, through National Savings and Investments (NS&I) or through HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

The latest consultation follows one last year on the implementation of the scheme and which also looked at different market structures for private provision of the accounts.

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