Check to see if your childcare vouchers can be used for summer holiday clubs and activities

Many working parents are not aware they could be using childcare vouchers to make savings on the cost of holiday childcare this coming summer holiday.

Childcare vouchers can cover some of the costs of holiday clubs, activity camps as well as traditional childcare.

But research by Computershare Voucher Services (CVS) finds that 56 per cent of parents are unaware they can use vouchers to cover some of their costs.

Only one per cent of all childcare vouchers used by parents last year were put towards summer holiday clubs and activities and only nine per cent for after school clubs.

CVS managing director Julian Foster says: “If you’re using registered care, be it breakfast clubs, after schools clubs, or even music lessons and other extracurricular activities, then ask if they accept childcare vouchers and start making those savings. With family budgets being squeezed more than ever at the moment, every penny really counts.”