However, the package of support will not be available until the beginning of June and will exclude those who only became self-employed within the last year.
In the interim childminding businesses will be able to apply for a business interruption loan, which has been extended to the self-employed and universal credit.
If you have not submitted your Income Tax Self-Assessment tax return for the tax year 2018-19, you must do this by 23 April 2020.
Many childcare settings have closed their businesses this week, while others have stayed open for key workers or vulnerable children.
Announcing the package of support last night, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak said, ‘Musicians and sound engineers; plumbers and electricians; taxi drivers and driving instructors; hairdressers and childminders and many others, through no fault of their own, risk losing their livelihoods. To you, I say this. You have not been forgotten. We will not leave you behind. We all stand together.’
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