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Early childhood education in Vantaa

Early childhood education's objective is to support a child's growth, development and learning and promote their wellbeing.

Introduction

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In Vantaa, early childhood education is held at day care centres as well as family and group family day care centres, among which the family can choose either a municipal or private service provider. A place in early childhood education should be applied for four months before they are needed.

The early childhood education services are part of the City of Vantaa's Education Division. Early childhood education's objective is to support a child's growth, development and learning and promote thei…r wellbeing.

Children in home care have activities available in early childhood education clubs, public day care centres and residential parks.

What does early childhood education consist of?

Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is part of the Finnish education system and an important stage on the child’s path of growing and learning. The mission of ECEC is to promote children’s holistic growth, development and learning in collaboration with their guardians.

All children under school-age have a subjective right to ECEC should their parents so decide. The Finnish ECEC is based on an integrated approach to care, education and teaching, the so-called “educare” model. Learning through play is essential. ECEC in Vantaa is primarily organised in day-care centres and in family day-care. Forms of open early childhood education including clubs, open day care and residential parks for children and their families.

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Early childhood education in the capital region

Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen have signed an inter-municipal agreement on the organisation of early childhood education when a family moves to another agreement municipality. Children’s early childhood education can be organised in the previous municipality of residence until the end of the following autumn or spring term and until no later than the start of pre-primary education. These families will receive a new temporary early childhood education decision.



Helsinki and Espoo are included in the trial for free early childhood education for under 5-year-old children. Free early childhood education does not apply to those children who are residents of Helsinki or Espoo but attend early childhood education in Vantaa.

Information on current topics in early childhood education and pre-school education in Vantaa

Information for families with children in Vantaa,  Lasten Vantaa Facebook (In Finnish)

News on early childhood education and pre-school education can be followed in the Aina Oppiva Vantaa newsletter. Subscribe Aina Oppiva Vantaa -newsletter >

Service pledge to a child

  1. We ensure that the transfer from pre-primary education to elementary instruction is safe and flexible to each and every child.
  2. We bolster children’s emotional and interaction skills in the pre-primary education and elementary instruction community.
  3. We focus on mathematical and linguistic skills in our joint learning situations.
  4. We account for the children’s objects of interest when planning and implementing learning packages.

     

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Billing and payments regarding early childhood education

Regarding customer payments and support, its reviews and other additional payment questions, you can contact the early childhood cares customer payment and billing service.

Service channels

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Early childhood education service counsellors

Vantaa also has several early childhood education service counsellors ("palveluohjaaja" in Finnish). A service counsellor presents the various early childhood education options for families and helps them apply for a place in early childhood education.

Service channels

Application

VaSa service

You can fill in the application for early childhood education electronically in the VaSa service. Log in the VaSa service through Suomi.fi identification with the help of online
banking identifiers, mobile ID or certificate card.

Inquiries about using the VaSa service, for example, in case you cannot find your child's information on VaSa, or you have trouble logging in the service. This email is not protected; do not send any specific personal data through it. varhaiskasvatuksen.vasapalvelu@vantaa.fi

Information

The VaSa service functions best with the two newest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari browsers. The service cannot be used with an Internet Explorer browser or older versions of the Edge browser.

You can use the VaSa service with your mobile device's browser or with a separately downloaded mobile app. You will find the app, called CGI Vesa, in application stores and use it in Finnish, Swedish and English.

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Service has 158 units in total