Could you be entitled to help with childcare costs? Get the help that fits with your family.
The government has expanded the funding for Early Years to help with childcare costs.
What is available
- some families of two-year-olds are eligible for 15 hours per week free childcare
- since April 2024, eligible working parents with children aged two will have access to 15 hours free childcare
- since September 2024, the 15 hours childcare offer 15 hours childcare offer has been expanded to eligible working parents for children between 9 and 23 months old.
- all three-and-four-year-olds are eligible for the universal 15 hours childcare per week.
- some three-and-four-year-olds of working parents are entitled to an additional 15 hours free childcare each week.
- Other help and costs - tax free childcare, universal credit for childcare, support while you study, help for households./node/152
- Go to our online copy of our childcare information leaflet. This can be translated into different languages or read out loud. Use the 'Listen and Translate' function at the top right hand corner of the page: Free and Funded childcare brochure
All hours are for 38 weeks of the year (term time). Some providers will stretch funding over more weeks which means less hours per week. Speak to your childcare provider.
As from September 2025, eligible working parents with children between 9 months up to school age will have access to 30 hours childcare.