Childcare benefits

New and updated

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

  Type:

  FAQs

• Basic pay and benefits

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include revised advisory fuel rates and the new advisory electricity rate, effective from 1 September 2018.

• 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.

• 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 1 April 2018.

• How to ensure compliance with the law on childcare vouchers

  Type:

  How to

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

• Employer childcare voucher schemes get six-month reprieve

  Date:

  14 March 2018

  Type:

  News

  Plans to scrap employer childcare voucher schemes have been delayed by six months after the Democratic Unionist Party intervened.

• What is the Tax-free Childcare scheme?

  Type:

  FAQs

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

  Type:

  FAQs

• Doubling of free entitlement under childcare scheme introduced

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  Extension of the free childcare scheme to 30 hours per week for parents of children aged three and four years old introduced.

• XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2017: Long-service, childcare and travel benefits

  Date:

  13 July 2017

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Here, we look at the findings from the XpertHR survey of benefits and allowances, presenting data on the availability of a number of benefits including long-service awards, childcare and travel benefits, location payments, volunteer days and various allowances.