Nursery World - 'Light touch' plan boosts tax credits

Parents employing nannies across the UK may be able to claim some financial help with their childcare costs from the Government under a new 'light-touch' scheme to be launched next year. A Treasury spokeswoman said that the aim of the scheme, announced in last week's Budget, is 'to make it as easy as possible for carers to be accredited while ensuring the safeguarding of quality'.

A Treasury spokeswoman said that the aim of the scheme, announced in last week's Budget, is 'to make it as easy as possible for carers to be accredited while ensuring the safeguarding of quality'.

She said it would apply to breakfast clubs and after-school clubs as well as nannies, who would not have to become registered childminders in order for the parents employing them to be eligible to claim childcare tax credits, as they do under the home carer scheme in England. The spokeswoman also stressed that it would be a voluntary scheme and that there would be 'no question of compelling nannies to join'.

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