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Language, culture and world view awareness in early childhood education and care
In Vantaa, the objective of language, culture and belief awareness in early childhood education and care is to support the development of each child's linguistic, cultural and religious or ethical background and to guide the children to appreciate and respect the different languages, cultures
Day Care Place Guarantee
The city of Vantaa has a day care place guarantee that entitles the child to return to the same day care place after a temporary termination of day care.
Development and Learning Support in early childhood education
From a child's point of view, it is important to recognize the need for support early and provide the child with a learning environment that supports her/his development and learning, and any other needs.
Day-care Centres on the Move
The Day-care Centres on the Move programme helps day-care centres ensure that their children have enough opportunities to be physically active every day.
Family Day Care
Family day care is intended for under school aged children and it takes place in small groups in a home-like, easygoing environment. Family day care takes place in the childminder's home, in the child's home or in a specially designed group family day care center.
Private Family Day Care
Private family day care is supervised by the local authorities. Family day care takes place in a home-like environment at the private childminder's home.
Group Family Day Care
In group family day care, one group can have 8-12 children. The premises are approved by the municipality, and there need to be 2-3 childminders depending on how many children are in the group.
Housing and health
The Environment Centre investigates health hazards in cases where the owner of a building fails to carry out the necessary investigations and take corrective action.
Health protection control
Environmental Health Services are responsible for the quality control of drinking and bathing water as well as monitoring health matters related to housing and indoor air. Control activities are also carried out, for example, in schools and day care centres, nursing homes and public sports
Day and holiday activities for disabled children
Day activities for children with intellectual disabilities are offered at all schools providing education for disabled children.