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 "title": "Tax-Free Childcare, UK",
 "category": "welfare",
 "summary": "Families with a Tax-Free Childcare account they used, and those with an account open, in each tax year since 2017-18, with the government's top-up, UK, from HMRC's Table 1.",
 "unit": "count",
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 "status": "Official statistics",
 "notes": [
  "HMRC rounds every count to the nearest 5 and the government's top-up to the nearest £100,000, and marks values under 30, and those it suppresses, with *. It changed its methods and definitions in April 2024, March 2025 and June 2025 and has not revised the earlier figures in line with them.",
  "HMRC's Table 1 gives 825,950 families with used accounts in 2024-25, and its Table 8 by country and region 816,120 for the UK; the hub shows Table 1's. In 2024-25 Table 1's used accounts are also 9,830 above their two parts, TFC alone and TFC with 15 or 30 hours of funded childcare, in the year, and by 11,975 to 24,515 in each month.",
  "The headline gives the latest month's families with used accounts beside the tax year's; HMRC's commentary on each release is in its collection of Tax-Free Childcare statistics."
 ],
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  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-08T13:19:30Z",
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  "latest_period": "2025/26",
  "top_up": {
   "2017/18": 32.2,
   "2018/19": 117.0,
   "2019/20": 235.5,
   "2020/21": 240.5,
   "2021/22": 411.3,
   "2022/23": 533.0,
   "2023/24": 624.5,
   "2024/25": 632.2,
   "2025/26": 599.8
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   "open": 1118045.0
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  "note": "with a government top-up of £599.8 million; 601,620 families used it in 2026-06"
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     "x": "2020/21",
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     "x": "2019/20",
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    },
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    },
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     "x": "2024/25",
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