Child tax credits / home learning - what is child minding in C19 age?

[Muminblack]

Children at home, I should be working. Our lovely child minder can do an hour or two a day with them remotely just to mind them and talk them through what they should be doing. Does this count as child minding or do I have to update the government now that I have no child minding?

Do you still pay child care costs?

I will be paying her for doing this. Like many parents, I can’t both work and help kids do school work.

My question is whether the child minder has to be physically present to count as doing the job.

I will be paying her for doing this. Like many parents, I can’t both work and help kids do school work.

What's with the spikiness? Hope you get the answers you seek.

Wasn’t meant to be spiky!

I can’t imagine anyone in authority having the time or inclination to check, TBH.

Extraordinary times, unusual solutions s. I would just do it, if it were me.