Ideas for work/self employment to qualify for 30 hours childcard

[TopBanan]

Hi,

My income currently comes from sources that would not entitle me to childcare or 20% tax credits for my child.

I would like my kid to go to nursery for 4 or 5 days a week and this is 15k to 20k a year in my area.

I am thinking about entering work to get 30 hours childcare, has anyone got any ideas for work. Prefer to work from home, but am flexible. 16 hours a week I believe is the minimum, and would be ideal.

The free childcare is there to help parents who are in work. If you want your child to attend nursery but don’t qualify, then you’ll have to pay for it.

You come over as entitled and close to being a scammer. Your current income (cash-based?) seems doubtful.

Yes, you can try to find a job WFM for 16 hours a week but these jobs are in high demand and are likely to go to workers with experience. Nobody is going to enable you to walk into such a job without effort on your part. Good try though.

Have you looked on job sites for vacancies in your area?

Also, your child must be three already right? To qualify for the 30 hours?

So they can still get 15 hours free now regardless.

It's only 16 hours if you're employed. If you're self-employed there's a minimum amount of earnings you need to have instead. So you'd really need to be in an established business already and able to depend on it for income to qualify. Otherwise you'll need to work for the man.

My income currently comes from sources that would not entitle me to childcare or 20% tax credits for my child.
So are you not declaring it on a tax return, then?

Have you worked before? Do you have qualifications? How old is your child? There are a lot of variables here!!

My income currently comes from sources that would not entitle me to childcare or 20% tax credits for my child. right so like a trust fund?

Basically you'll have to go and seek a job.

What are your interests, skills, experiences?

There are lots of wfh jobs in the charity sector.

Try charity.job.co.uk

Lots of nasty leaping to assumptions and judgments.

I do love your optimism here, you want a 100% wfh job for just 16 hours a week? I mean what's your experience? Do you actually have any skills/qualifications where you could wfh in that sort of role?

I do a tax return.

My income is from dividends and rental income. Neither count currently. I obviously have more time on my hands now my child is no longer a baby so would like to find some work.

no scam, just haven't worked for a few years, our household income is from my partner job and my rental income.

Not sure why you have to have this tone, is just a question and I am looking for ideas.

You're coming across as very entitled, ignorant and unempathetic. Perhaps you don't mean to be.

If you can afford to send your child into childcare then simply get on and do it. If you want a job just go out and get one. The two are not linked. There's no magic formula for the kind of job that will help you get childcare.

If your joint income is from trust fund and rental income it sounds like you're in an extreme minority to other parents in that you can support yourselves without having to work. There's a reason why this income isn't taken into account when calculating eligibility for childcare provision.

Do bear in mind that if you can both afford not to work, expecting the state to pick up childcare costs on behalf of your family just because you've gone out and got yourself a job is staggeringly cheeky and entitled. Surely the state's finite financial resources would be better off spent on a family in more genuine need of financial support?

No doubt you'll let me know if I've misunderstood your position.

Apologies - it seems your partner has a job but that you live off dividends and rental income.
Still - my point still stands that the reason why those sources are excluded are because it means you're considered to have enough money to pay for it yourself, so perhaps that's what you simply ought to do.

If your husband doesn’t earn over 100k per year , you could use tax free childcare .
https://www.gov.uk/tax-free-childcare
For every £8 you pay in the government pays £2. Your husband would need to pay the Registered provider eg nanny, childminder or nursery .