Varda - early childhood education database

VARDA is a national early childhood education database, in which the municipality of Hollola is obliged to store information about early childhood education locations, personnel, and children in early childhood education and their guardians. Data storage is stipulated in Early Childhood Education Act 540/2018. Data transfer to Varda has started at the beginning of 2019. The National Board of Education is responsible for Varda's maintenance. Information stored in Varda can be used in the development and decision-making of early childhood education, as well as in statistics and research. The registered person has the right to view information stored about him in Varda. The child's information can be viewed by the child's guardians.

The following is recorded for a child in early childhood education:

• name, social security number, student number, native language, municipality and contact information
• establishment where the child is in early childhood education
• date of submission of the application
• the start and end date of the decision or agreement
• the hourly scope of the right to early childhood education and the information related to its use
• information about organizing early childhood education as day care
• form of organizing early childhood education

Of the guardians registered in the population information system of children in early childhood education, the following is recorded:

• name, social security number, student number, native language, municipality and contact information
• the amount of the early childhood education customer fee and the value of the service voucher
• family size according to the law on customer fees for early childhood education
• the start and end date of the payment decision

The information of parents in the child's family who are not the child's guardians is not stored in Varda.

The following is recorded about early childhood education workers in the municipality of Hollola:

• name, social security number, student number, native language, municipality and contact information
• workplaces and work duties referred to in the Early Childhood Education Act
• the person's employment relationship and the person's working hours
• a completed degree conferring the eligibility referred to in the Early Childhood Education Act
• participation in continuing education