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8 October 2018
HR update; childcare voucher scheme
As of 4 October 2018, childcare voucher schemes have now closed to new applicants. Your employees may be able to get tax-free childcare instead. The new tax-free childcare scheme does not involve employers.
Your employees can keep getting vouchers if they've joined a scheme and their wages were adjusted before the scheme closed in October 2018, as long as:
– they stay with your company and you continue to run the scheme
– they do not take an unpaid career break of longer than a year
They cannot continue to claim childcare vouchers if they successfully apply for Tax-Free Childcare.
The employee must inform you the employer within 90 days if they get Tax-Free Childcare. They will then stop receiving new vouchers.
Simpler Recycling Requirements in England
21 January 2025
In order to increase recycling rates the government has introduced measures to simplify workplace recycling in England.
6 February 2025
Output and orders in Q4 more-or-less performed as forecast as the UK's printing and printed packaging industry continued its path of steady, but subdued, growth in 2024.
