So for any parents who are moving into work or wants to increase their hours, we will pay their childcare costs upfront. And we will increase the maximum they can claim to £951 for one child and £1,630 for two children, an increase of almost 50%. School age children I turn now...
It was announced last spring that there would be an increase in childcare available for working parents, but we weren’t sure if there would be any update in this budget. We were pleasantly surprised. The result: Hunt announced that hourly early-years funding rates would increase in...
A stamp duty cut for all buyers, from first timers to downsizers, could be a game-changer for getting the housing ladder moving. Cutting stamp duty at every stage of the chain could release those “next time buyers” who currently feel trapped by the costs of upsizing and are adding to ...