Now is the time to apply for the early childhood education and care places for the autumn term!

In this way, early childhood education and care is better equipped to plan activities and allocate places as well as possible to meet families’ wishes.

You can apply for a place in early childhood education and care around the year, according to the needs of the family. While this option exists, we still hope that the applications for the autumn term would be sent by March 31st, 2025, in case you already know that you will need to apply anyway. Apply for an early childhood education place for your child.

– By sending us the applications in time, you make it possible for us to plan and coordinate all the activities and to adjust the composition of the groups well. This ensures more robust everyday life in our daycare centres, describes service manager Maria Karvonen.

Naming more than one place in the application

As for the children starting their early childhood education and care between August and September, their families will be informed in May–June about their children’s daycare centre. Other applications follow the normal procedure of being handled at the latest a month before the need for early childhood education and care starts. As for the autumn term, then, we will inform the families a bit faster than normal.

Karvonen advises the parents to make use of the option of naming more than one daycare centre that would suit them.

– The application allows naming up to six options, and it is advisable to make full use of this feature. Certain neighbourhoods, such as the city centre, have a higher demand for daycare places and thus it is more difficult to get one. Therefore, it is always beneficial to name your options.

Despite the uneven demand of early childhood education and care places across the neighborhoods, each child is invariably secured with a place.

– Of course, our aim is to ensure that as many families as possible can be guaranteed an early childhood education and care place according to their wishes, for example close to home. The families are more likely to get a place at their first option daycare in autumn than in the middle of the season, for example in January, says Karvonen.

Service coordinators are here to help you

The service coordinators offer guidance to families in all matters related to early childhood education and care, also questions regarding applying for a place.

– We advise the families on the procedure and explain the options they have. You can always call us or contact us via email in any and all questions regarding the early childhood education and care, assures Agneta Brännbacka, service coordinator.

Contact details and telephone service hours for service coordination.

Note! Questions about the customer fees for early childhood education and care should be addressed to the billing services. Contact details and telephone service hours.