Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

Paid childcare

Discuss everything related to paid childcare here, including childminders, nannies, nurseries and au pairs.

Locked out Childcare account -help!

2 replies

Junebug22 · 01/12/2024 11:02

So I stupidly failed the 3 security questions that occasionally pop up for my childcare account. I know my answers were “correct” but must have been a word off eg. adding “Grammar” to the name of my school.

I can log in with my username and password but when I try to do anything, it tells me my security check was unsuccessful and to contact the helpline (without supplying a suggested number -helpful!).

Planning to phone tomorrow but wondering if anyone can shed light on the process? I now have £800 sitting in an account that I can’t use. Nursery obviously have their own bills to pay so I’m going to have to try to find an additional £800 somewhere (??) to pay them if I can’t get this resolved asap. If I knew I’d have access to the money in a week, I’m hoping they’d give me an extension as I’ve never missed a payment before. I’m so angry with myself and panicking that this is now going to take months to resolve. Which will mean missing out on the 20% top up in the interim too.

Google hasn’t been very helpful :-(

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
FrannyScraps · 01/12/2024 11:19

Ok you're being a bit extreme! It won't take months, they will just verify your identity. To be fair if the invoice was due today then it would have been late anyway so you're no worse off at the moment. Give them a call first thing at let the nursery know you're aware it's late and that you haven't just forgotten to pay.

Miamoo134 · 01/11/2025 14:16

Hi did you manage to sort this okay? I have done the same thing :(

New posts on this thread. Refresh page