Childcare Vouchers & Tax Free Childcare

We are happy to accept childcare vouchers as payment for the following items:

• Breakfast Club & After school club
• Enrichment clubs
• Nursery fees

We are not able to accept vouchers for school dinner payments, day trips or residential trips.

When making a payment from your childcare voucher provider account please ensure you complete the online form with as much information as possible so that we can reconcile your payment. Click here to access the Childcare Vouchers online notification form.

We need to know the exact date the payment was made, the amount to be made to each club, ASC or BC as well as the total amount of the payment.

If any of this information is missing we will need to clarify this with you before we can allocate this to your Scopay account.

In accordance with HRMC regulations, any payments made to us using Tax-Free childcare or childcare vouchers can only be refunded back to the original childcare account - we cannot issue refunds directly to parents.

Tax free childcare refunds

To process refunds to your Tax-Free Childcare account we will need your payment reference which begins with 11. This can be found in the following day:

• Sign into your accounts through the Tax-Free Childcare website
• Select "your Tax-Free Childcare Account"
• Select "Manage Account"
• Select "Pay money in"
• Your payment reference will appear on this under "payment reference"

Childcare voucher refunds  

Where the provider accepts refunds, these can be made directly back to your childcare voucher account. Please contact your provider to request the reference number required for the payment.

*Note that Edenred does not accept refunds and the only option in this instance is for a credit to be applied to your child's account for use on other applicable expenditures in school, or it can be transferred to another registered childcare provider.

If you have any questions regarding childcare voucher payments please email: office.riverbridge@lumenlearningtrust.co.uk.