Private Family Day Care
Introduction
The city of Vantaa has written a handbook for private family day care, that includes instructions for arranging private family day care.
Would you like to put your child in private family day care?
The childminder makes a written child care agreement with the family. The agreement includes, for instance, the days of care, the hours of care, the day care fee, summer vacation salary, and possible refund for the days of absence. If you are applying for municipal day care, it is advisable to mention it to the private childminder. During the private childminder's day of absence (due to e.g. sickness, child's sickness or other reasons) it is the parents' responsibility to arrange alternate care.
Each private childminder sets their own day care fee. The family can apply for statutory private day care allowance and municipal allowance from Kela (The Social Insurance Institution of Finland) which pays it directly to the childminder. The remaining part of the day care fee is left for the family to pay.
The family day care providers
There are both private and municipal family day care providers in Vantaa. For more information on the family day care providers, contact your district's director of day care center.
Municipal family day care: Matarin päiväkoti
Private Family Day Care: Rautkallion päiväkoti
Different options for family day care
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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.
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The service chat for early childhood education is a quick and easy way to have answers to questions regarding the early childhod applications. Please make sure you don't send any personal or sensitive information via the chat. More detailed inquiries regarding an application are done by telephone.
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