Childcare voucher scheme: Plan 'will include parents who are carers'
The government wants to expand a new childcare tax credit scheme to include parents who stay at home because they are carers.
A 12-week consultation on the system - which was first announced in the March Budget - has begun.
Families with two working parents on less than £150,000 each would be able to claim up to £1,200 a year per child.
However, there has been an angry reaction from organisations representing stay at home mothers, some of whom feel "penalised" for not working.
Emma Simpson reports.
06 Aug 2013
- From the section UK Politics