Care to Learn allows eligible learners to receive financial childcare support over the course of an academic year.

Care to Learn will pay up to £160 per child per week from August 2009 - July 2010 for the following:

• Registered childcare for all kinds of learning, training or work-based learning which is partly or fully publicly funded
• The necessary additional travel cost that young parents face in using their childcare
• Childcare necessary to provide for essential private study associated with the learning or training
• Fees necessary for a young parent to retain a childcare place during the holidays
• Any deposit and / or registration fees that the provider usually charges to reserve a place up to £250
• A trial within the £250 limit. This might take the form of a session or two with different providers to find the right arrangement for the parent, child and provider.

To be eligible for Care to Learn you must be:

• aged under 20 years old
• enrolled on a course that you started before you were 20
• enrolled on a course that receives some public funding
• at college, school or other course or
• a non-employed trainee on work based learning
• caring for your own child/children
• using registered childcare

Remember – you can qualify for EMA and Care to Learn at the same time!

Download the Care to Learn information sheet here.

Application Forms are available from the Info Zone.

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