Help paying for your childcare
The Childcare Choices website offers a comparison guide for ways to reduce childcare costs.
Changes to childcare support
The financial support that is available to parents to help with the cost of childcare is increasing.
In the Spring Budget 2023, the Government announced extending the existing childcare support. Currently, parents who work more than 16 hours a week and earn less than £100,000 are entitled to 30 hours funded childcare a week for children aged three to four.
Starting from April 2024, the scheme will be expanding. By September 2025, working parents of all children over the age of nine months will be eligible to 30 hours of funded childcare.
Some providers may ask for charges in addition to the funded childcare.
Visit childcarechoices.gov.uk for further information.
Contacting the Families Information Service
We can help with:
- finding childcare
- understanding childcare funding options
- childcare for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and the SEND Local Offer
Email: fis@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Tel: 0345 045 1360
For more information visit our Family Information page or follow us on social media Cambridgeshire Families Information Service Facebook page.
Funded early education entitlement and help paying for childcare costs
Frequently asked questions
We have added some answers to the questions we get asked the most about childcare funding.
