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Halo Benefits tackles the childcare support cliff facing high-earning parents, who lose access to government childcare help once household income passes £100,000 — using the workplace nursery exemption to keep support in place.
Read the full article on UK News Group →By Jessica O'Connor
Halo Benefits has launched an AI-driven compliance platform, designed to help employers support staff childcare through an existing workplace nursery tax exemption. The platform aims to address longstanding barriers to uptake of the exemption by creating auditable records of employers' financing and governance involvement in childcare provision, reducing compliance risks that have discouraged participation.
Read the full article on Workplace Journal →Under current rules, once a household crosses the £100,000 adjusted-net-income threshold, it loses entitlement to both 30 hours of funded childcare and Tax-Free Childcare. For families with more than one child, this creates a sudden step-change in costs just as careers progress. Halo's platform enables employers to provide childcare support through an existing workplace nursery tax exemption (Section 318) that is not subject to £100,000 means-testing.
Read the full article on Family Friendly Working →Featured in the March/April 2026 print edition of Nursery Management Today, the trade title for the UK early-years sector.
Read the full article on Nursery Management Today →Income tax is devolved in Scotland but National Insurance isn't — so workplace nursery savings differ. The £43,663 cliff edge, a Glasgow vs Manchester worked example, and band-by-band figures for 2026/27.
by Anna SempleFor EmployersHMRC does not certify workplace nursery schemes — it tests arrangements against the Section 318 conditions. A plain-English guide to the four conditions, the partnership requirement, and how marketed schemes fail.
by Anna SempleFor ParentsA neutral, numbers-led comparison of Tax-Free Childcare and the Section 318 workplace nursery benefit for 2026/27 — the £2,000 cap, the per-band maths, and the combine question answered with the source.
by Anna SempleFor ParentsHow salary sacrifice on nursery fees works under Section 318, what you could save by tax band in 2026/27, and the honest catch most pages skip: you can't stack it with Tax-Free Childcare.
by Anna SempleFor EmployersHow to pick a UK employee benefits platform that fits your workforce, connects to payroll, and prices transparently — and where Halo Pay fits for the workplace nursery benefit.
by Halo TeamFor EmployersA qualifying workplace nursery benefit is exempt from Income Tax and National Insurance under Section 318 ITEPA 2003. The HMRC conditions, the risks, and the mistakes that break the exemption.
by Halo Team