Family and Childcare

Childcare

The government provides a few support schemes to help families pay for childcare costs. The government's Childcare Choices website has a range of information about different offers and entitlements, including:

tax-free childcare
15 hours free childcare for eligible two-year-olds
14 hours free childcare for three and four-year-olds
30 hours free childcare for working families with three and four-year-olds
tax credits for childcare
Universal Credit for childcare.

Family Money Matters

The website Money Helper has information on all money matters relating to parenting and childcare, please click on the links below to find out more about the topics you are interested.

Click here for information on all family money matters.

If you are waiting to become a parent, the same website has a handy quide to what to claim when during pregnancy and the first years of your child:

https://www.moneyhelper.org.uk/en/family-and-care/becoming-a-parent/baby-money-timeline

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Article 4 Direction relating to houses in multiple occupation

Will there be more council and affordable housing with Garden Communities?

What public transport comes with Garden Communities?

Isn't there enough brownfield land for new housing?

Why are Garden Communities needed?

Where will the new jobs be?

Brightlingsea Neighbourhood Plan

What will be the big differences living in a Garden Community to living on a new housing estate now?

Ardleigh Neighbourhood Plan

Where will the money come from to pay for the infrastructure and facilities?

Will the new A120/A133 road be in place before the housing building starts?

Will the trees along the avenue of Remembrance in Colchester have to be removed to ensure it can cope with any additional traffic?

Is there enough water to sustain this Garden Community?

Essex coast recreational disturbance avoidance and mitigation strategy (RAMS)

How will waste water be dealt with?

What Makes a Garden Community Different?

What will be the impact on other established communities?

How big will the Garden Community ne 20 years from now?

What are the 'Garden Community Principles'?

Won't pressure be put on existing schools and medical facilities until new ones are built?

What public transport comes with Garden Communities?

When will know about any new jobs created?

Alresford Neighbourhood Plan

where will shops, schools and medical facilities be sited and when they will be available?

Won't the new A120/A133 'split' the Garden Community?

What will the quality of life be like in a Garden Community?

Will there be more open space in the Garden Community?

Elmstead Neighbourhood Plan

What will be the impact on the environment of the Garden Community?

When will the proposed Rapid Transport System be available?

Clingoe Hill is already struggling with the current amount of traffic - how is it expected to cope with additional traffic from additional homes?

What happens next?

Clacton Round 1 - Highway verges (Holland-on-Sea - Jaywick)

Clacton Round 2 - Formal gardens (Clacton Area)

Clacton Round 3 - Council housing areas (Percy King Estate, Clacton)

Clacton Round 4 - Small verge areas (Holland-on-Sea - Jaywick)

Clacton Road 5 - Small open spaces (Holland-on-Sea - Jaywick)

Frinton and Walton Round 1 - Formal gardens (Frinton & Walton)

Frinton and Walton Round 2 - Highway verges and small open spaces (Frinton, Kirby & Walton Area

Harwich Round 1 - Formal gardens (Harwich & Dovercourt)

Harwich Road 2 - Highway verges and large open spaces (Harwich & Dovercourt)

Harwich Road 3 - Small highway verges and open spaces/haven gateway (Harwich & Dovercourt)

Rural Round – Council housing areas & open spaces (Elmstead Market, Gt Bromley, Ardleigh, Lawford, Manningtree, Mistley, Little Bromley, Gt Bentley, Alresford, Brightlingsea, Weeley, Frating)

All Areas Tractor Round – Large open space, recreation grounds & greenswards (Clacton, Holland on sea, Frinton, Walton, Harwich & Dovercourt)

Sheltered Housing Round - Clacton, Weeley, Frinton & Walton, Harwich, Lawford

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