Any tax experts childcare vouchers?

[Blu]

I am keen to take advantage of the new gvt tax and NI-free childcare vouchers, and we have researched it through ACCOR. However, we cannot get through to them, canot get q's answered and April payday - and my nursery bill - is looming. Our Finance Mgr says he has researched it and that we don't need to go through a company like ACCOR, but the money sacrificed from my salary can go straight to the nursery.

If this is true, that would be great - the organisation I work with is a small and a regd charity, so the savings on the cost of joining the ACCOR scheme is important.

But is it true?

IMO the gvt / IR have been really sloppy in spreading info about this.

there used to be a programme called TEDS which dealt with direct payment from employer to nursery so you basically paid it out of gross not net salary - but I think the nursery has to be signed up with them

jothorpe- 1000 employees! so, this is basicaly another government joke, which will only help a minority of parents?!?!?!? If so that makes me

The 1000 employees thing seems to be only one particular voucher provider. I have been in touch with other providers now and one in particular will run a scheme for a company with only a handful of employees, of which only 1 employee has to sign up.

would you be willing to name names?