TFC08050 | Responsible for a child: circumstances in which a person is to be treated as responsible for a child who normally lives with them

Childcare Payments Act 2014, section 7

Childcare Payments (Eligibility) Regulations 2015, regulation 4(1)

For a person to be treated as being responsible for a child in respect of whom the person holds, or wishes to open, a childcare account, that child must be normally living with them at the date of their declaration of eligibility. The ‘normally living with’ test is not defined in the regulations; therefore, it should be given its ordinary every day meaning of regularly, usually, typically lives with them which allows for temporary or occasional absences.