

If you have any questions about applying for early childhood education, please contact: Early childhood education guidance, tel. 020 617 3546, terhi.hulkkoimatra.fi.
Service guidance is primarily intended for new clients of day care. Service guidance provides advice on municipal and private day care centers and the city's open early childhood education services.
Early childhood education places can be applied for all year round.
You must apply for a place in early childhood education four months before the desired start time of the treatment. If the need for care is not foreseeable and it is due to sudden employment, studies or training, you must apply for a place of care as soon as possible, but no later than two weeks before the need for day care begins.
Early childhood education places are applied for by submitting an application in the electronic transaction service. With an early education application, you can apply to a municipal daycare or family daycare. In addition, the city of Imatra buys care places from private family day care providers.
A private care facility is sought directly from private family day care providers and group family day care providers. An early childhood education application is valid for one year after submitting the application.
Guardians will receive information about the pre-school place in January. Read more about registration from the preschool page.
Electronic transaction of new customers
The service does not require identification with bank IDs.
You can do the following in the electronic transaction service:
Electronic transactions of current customers
The service requires identification with bank credentials or a mobile certificate and a valid early childhood education customership, in which case the family information will be ready for the application from the early childhood education customer information system.
Through identification you can:
Validity period: The application is valid for one year from the date of submission
NOTE! Changes to the child's early childhood education period in the service contract (reserved hours/month) are reported to the daycare director or family daycare supervisor. Printable early childhood education application and transfer application, if the electronic application cannot be used.
Early childhood education electronic service and payment decisions, services can be found in the electronic service of current customers from this link.
Log in to the service and select afterwards Our story - page point My information - Overview. The decisions can be found at the bottom of the page. Choose the child's name from the field Show the information, in which case the pdf decision will open.
In the links below, you can find more detailed instructions for adjustment requirements for taking a child's early childhood education place or pre-school place.