Nursery World - Tax-Free Childcare full roll-out delayed

Full roll-out of the Government’s Tax-Free Childcare scheme has been delayed until next year.

The full roll-out of the scheme to working parents of children under the age of 12, or under 17 for disabled children, was expected by the end of the year, but it has now been pushed back to March 2018.

The move to delay the full roll-out of the scheme appears planned to enable further improvements to be made to the Childcare Service, which has suffered from numerous technical glitches.

The news came as the Treasury announced that Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) will open to parents whose youngest child is under six or turns six on 24 November.

Currently only working parents of children under the age of four (on 31 August 2017) can benefit from the scheme, which went live in April and is accessed via HMRC’s Childcare Service.

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