This 60-minute online ZOOM information session will be useful for local authorities/councils and family-facing professionals across Northern Ireland.

You should attend if you come into contact with families through your work. For example, you could be a health visitor, social worker, housing officer, early years or childcare provider, holiday activity provider, schoolteacher, or work in children’s centres, early help, job centres. If you work with families across the public, private and/or voluntary sectors and want to find out more about increasing the take up of Tax-Free Childcare – it would be great to see you.

The information session aims to:

Raise awareness and understanding of TFC.
Provide a useful overview of Tax-Free Childcare (TFC).
Show how TFC could better benefit children and families at a time when cost pressures of household budgets are a priority.
Help and equip everyone with ideas and tools that motivate parents to sign up, reduce their childcare costs, and use TFC to pay for childcare in pre-school, out of school and holiday activities.

Information session outline

Welcome, Housekeeping and introduction.
Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) – What is it?
TFC an opportunity for all types of providers.
How TFC works with other government offers.
Why should families apply for TFC?
TFC – the process. What parents and families need to know.
Three things all stakeholders need.
Summary, evaluation and close.

TFC- information session for front facing professionals in Northern Ireland