Services

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  • Outdoor sales and mobile food premises

    Service

    Mobile food premises typically operate at different events. Register your food business with the local food control unit four weeks before starting operations. Remember to notify the local food control authority when you operate in different municipalities.

  • Outdoor sports facilities

    Service

    Vantaa has a wide range of outdoor sports facilities, where you can play sports, exercise and be active. There are facilities for almost every sport.

  • Outpatient clinic teaching

    Service

    Outpatient clinic teaching is intended for comprehensive school students in Vantaa in need of child or adolescent psychiatric support who are not able to study in their own school despite the support methods applied.

  • Outreach youth work

    Service

    Outreach youth work services provide assistance and guidance to young people aged 15-28 years who do not have a job or place of study.

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  • Parking Supervision

    Service

    The City of Vantaa Parking Supervision monitors stopping, parking, and unnecessary idling of vehicles in Vantaa's street and park areas.

  • Parkour

    Service

    Many local sports facilities and school premises have parkour obstacles that let you to challenge your body.

  • Pay subsidies

    Service

    A pay subsidy is an economic benefit for employers to cover the pay of an unemployed jobseeker.

  • Personal coaching

    Service

    Personal coaching is meant for 18 - 29-year-old Vantaa residents without a job or a study place.

  • Planning review

    Service

    In the annual planning review, we present the current topics related to land use planning.

  • Playgrounds

    Service

    Playgrounds are play areas for children.

  • Pre-primary education in English

    Service

    The operations of English-speaking pre-primary education are designed in a way that combines the bilingual pre-primary education so that both languages remain present and improve gradually after the teacher's modelling and the children's active learning.

  • Pre-primary education in Vantaa

    Service

    Pre-primary education starts one year before a child starts going to school. Pre-primary education is four hours a day and it's run during the working hours of schools. There is free pre-primary education in Vantaa that is being given in day cares and in some schools.

  • Preparatory teaching for basic education

    Service

    Preparatory teaching is provided for children and young people who are not proficient enough in Finnish language to study in a group taught in Finnish.

  • Preparatory teaching for six-year-olds

    Service

    Instruction preparing for basic education is arranged for those children with immigrant backgrounds whose Finnish-language proficiency is not sufficient for studying in a pre-primary education group.

  • Private day care allowance

    Service

    A family can receive private day care allowance from Kela to pay for private day care. This allowance can the paid right after the parental allowance term has ended.

  • Private early childhood education and care

    Service

    Private early childhood education and care is a safe option, as the regional authorities supervise and guide the operations. You can apply for day care centres, group family day care centres and family day care operating with private day care allowance by contacting the care unit directly.

  • Private Family Day Care

    Service

    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.

  • Public beaches and winter swimming spots

    Service

    Vantaa has six public beaches and two winter swimming spots. Bathing water quality at public beaches is monitored with regular sampling.

  • Public purchase witnessing

    Service

    Real-estate or land sales, exchanges and gifts must always be made in writing. A public purchase witness confirms the deed of transfer with a certificate.

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  • Recreation destinations and services

    Service

    Vantaa owns six outdoor recreation areas with public camp kitchens and outside toilets.

  • Recreational activities for young people

    Service

    The City of Vantaa offers many affordable and free recreational activities for young people.

  • Registry

    Service

    The registry is responsible for recording matters related to administrative decision-making and incoming documents and provides information about the handling stages of matters.

  • Reimbursement of travel and accommodation costs

    Service

    You can get compensation for travel and accommodation costs when you are applying for a job or participating in a service that promotes employment.

  • Religion and ethics education

    Service

    Either religion or ethics are taught in basic education. A student can also receive teaching in their own religion in primary and lower secondary schools in Vantaa.

  • Rental of youth centre facilities

    Service

    The City of Vantaa offers various facilities to support youth activities. For example, you can reserve, for example, studios for band activities, recreational camps and youth centres from the city's youth services.

  • Reservation of residential activity facilities

    Service

    Local communities/organisations and private individuals can reserve residential activity facilities for their use.

  • Residential activity facilities

    Service

    Citizens' houses are communal meeting places open to everybody.

  • Residential Parks

    Service

    Residential parks provide guided outdoor and indoor activities. Residential parks are meant for children of all ages and their guardians.

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  • School gyms

    Service

    Nearly all indoor sports can be practised in the gyms of local comprehensive schools, upper secondary schools and Varia vocational colleges.

  • School meals

    Service

    A school meal is served every day, and it is free of charge.