Early childhood education service guidance

Early childhood education service guidance advises and directs families in applying for a place in early childhood education and pre-primary education and in matters related to the child care allowances.

We tell you about the different options available in municipal and private early childhood education and help you consider what kind of early childhood education service would be the best option for the situation of your child and family.

We advise and provide information on matters such as:

• Different forms of early childhood education (day-care centre, family day care, group family day care, shift care, clubs, residents’ parks)
• Applying for early childhood education (municipal early childhood education, outsourced early childhood education, service voucher early childhood education, other private early childhood education)
• Applying for pre-primary education
• Free early childhood education for five-year-olds
• Early childhood education clubs and applying to them
• Changing the place of early childhood education and making a transfer application
• Terminating a place in early childhood education
• Benefits for caring for children at home
• Private day care allowance and private early childhood education

Service guidance processes applications for early childhood education and pre-primary education and makes decisions on the placement of children in early childhood education (municipal early childhood education, outsourced day-care centres and service voucher day-care centres). You can find the contact information for service guidance at the bottom of the page.

If you want more information about the customer fees of early childhood education and the copayment of service vouchers, you can contact the service number of early childhood education customer fees (see contact details below).

In matters related to invoicing of early childhood education you can contact the Espoo Financial Services.

If you do not speak Finnish or Swedish you can also get personal advice on applying for early childhood education from the Hello Espoo information service at the Iso Omena Service Centre. Read more about the Hello Espoo information service and see the contact information here.