Childcare benefits

New and updated

• Basic pay and benefits

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect revised tax charges on company cars, vans and fuel benefit, and changes to evidence requirements for reimbursing qualifying subsistence expenses, effective from 6 April 2019.

• How to deal with maternity pay, salary sacrifice and childcare vouchers

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to reflect the increase to the statutory maternity pay rate from 7 April 2019.

• How can employers manage changes in childcare provision?

  Date:

  14 November 2018

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  The longstanding Childcare Vouchers scheme ended on 4 October and has been replaced by the government's Tax-Free Childcare scheme. How can employers navigate the new incentive and communicate the changes to staff? Julie Barker from Hawk Incentives looks at the options.

• How to ensure compliance with the law on childcare vouchers

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to include information on the closure of childcare voucher schemes to new entrants.

• Corbyn vows to "rebalance power" in the workplace

  Date:

  26 September 2018

  Type:

  News

  Labour will "rebalance power in the workplace" if the party wins power, Jeremy Corbyn said in his speech closing the party's conference today.

• Employer childcare voucher schemes close to new entrants

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  Employer childcare voucher schemes close to new entrants on 4 October 2018.

• Can employers still operate a childcare voucher scheme following the introduction of Tax-free Childcare?

  Type:

  FAQs

• XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2018: Childcare benefits, long-service awards and other benefits and allowances

  Date:

  12 July 2018

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  We examine the provision of some of the wide range of benefits and allowances offered by respondents to XpertHR's research, including childcare benefits, long-service awards, charity days, location allowances, and standby and call-out payments.

• What is the Tax-free Childcare scheme?

  Type:

  FAQs

• What is the role of employers in the Tax-free Childcare scheme?

  Type:

  FAQs