Private Family Day Care

Private childminders are private entrepreneurs who have been approved as childminders by the City of Vantaa. Private childminders offer early childhood education in their own home. As with municipal family day care, private childminders are trained professionals. The City of Vantaa directs and supervises the activities of private childminders and provides guidance.

In private family day care, the family is responsible for arranging alternate care for the child if the childminder is ill or on vacation, for example.

As the service provider, the childminder providing private family day care can determine their own care fee. An early childhood education agreement is concluded between the private childminder and the family. 

The family can receive private day care allowance from Kela and municipal allowance paid by Vantaa to pay for the fees of private family day care. The city does not provide service vouchers for private family day care.

You will find more information about private day care allowance on the following page:

Applying for private family day care

You do not need to fill out the early childhood education application in the early childhood education online service, that is, the VaSa service; you can contact your chosen private childminder directly.

Private childminders are responsible for acquiring their own customers, and the early childhood education agreement is concluded between the private childminder and the family.