Treasury written question – answered at on 21 January 2008.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will bring forward proposals to amend the legislative provision for childcare support received through working families tax credit to allow those in training or further education to have time spent in study taken into account.
The child care element of working tax credits (WTC) is designed to help remove the child care barrier that often prevents people taking up or returning to work. Eligibility to this system is therefore dependent on claimants being in formal employment for a minimum of 16 hours per week. Parents undertaking training courses or further education with a view to moving into work may qualify for access to free child care resource (through New Deal and education providers direct) and so there are currently no plans to extend the child care element of WTC to this group.
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