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Scrapping of tax credits proposed
By Simon Vevers,
Nursery World,
23 April 2008
Controversial proposals to scrap childcare tax credits and vouchers and replace them with a Parental Care Allowance (PCA) for all parents of children aged nought to three, which could be used to fund unregistered childcare, were published by a think-tank this week.
In its report, Little Britons: Financing Childcare Choice, Policy Exchange argued that funding support for childcare should no longer be linked to employment 'so parents have genuine choice over whether to work or not, rather than when and how to work'. The allowance of between £50 and £60 a week would go direct to parents from birth or...
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