Application for early childhood education

You can apply for a municipal early childhood education place all year round. According to the law, the application must be submitted 4 months before the need for treatment begins, and due to the unexpected need for treatment, the application period is 2 weeks. Such an unforeseen need can be employment, studies, training or moving to the municipality. All children of early childhood education age have the right to full-time subjective early childhood education.

From application to start

Applying for an early childhood education place starts with filling out an electronic early childhood education application. You can contact service guidance about filling out the paper form. The application is processed about a month before the need for a place. We take into account the child's need for care, the child's possible special needs, the wishes recorded on the application, and the location of our units. The service guidance will contact the family if more detailed information is needed for the application. Service guidance must be notified of changes in the application information.

If the application has given permission for electronic notification, the decision on the place will be sent electronically. Notification of the decision will be sent by e-mail. The decision can be viewed and printed on the Our family page of the early childhood education WEB service. The service requires electronic identification. If electronic notification has not been approved, the decision will be sent by mail.

You must accept the place or refuse the offered place within two weeks of the decision. The start date can be moved up to one month before accepting the place. The early childhood care center contacts the family and informs them about the practices related to the start of care and agrees to get to know the guardian. The family visits the child's place of care before the treatment begins. During the introduction, the immediate supervisor of the early childhood education together with the family fills out the #kotoisapolku form, where the matters related to the child's early childhood education are agreed upon in more detail. Customer service and invoicing start according to the start date confirmed in the #kotoisapolku form.

Submission of income information

The customer fee for early childhood education is calculated based on the need for the service, family size and total monthly income. In municipal early childhood education, income information must be submitted by the 5th day of the month following the start of care. In addition, the payment is checked for all customers every year in August, when all customers must submit the latest income information.

Electronic services

Early childhood education WEB services – Electronic transaction service for early childhood education client families.
Wilma – Communication system and primary communication channel between early childhood education and home.
Edlevo – Notification of childcare times, absences and substitute applicants. Edlevo can be used with a mobile application or through a browser.