Confusion over new 'home childcarers'

By James Tweed
Nursery World
25 April 2002

Nannies face having to register as childminders in order to work as 'home childcarers' or see their jobs go to other registered childminders under a scheme being proposed by the Government. The proposals follow last week's Budget announcement by chancellor of the exchequer Gordon Brown that the new child tax credit scheme to be introduced from next April will be extended to cover care in a family's own home. But parents who employ nannies will be ineligible for the tax credit as the Government intends to create a new category of 'home childcarer', who would be either a registered childminder...

 

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