Applying for early childhood education and preschool education

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.

Applying for an early childhood education place

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.

Registering for preschool education

Guardians will receive information about the pre-school place in January. Read more about registration from the preschool page.

New customers of early childhood education

Electronic transaction of new customers

The service does not require identification with bank IDs.
You can do the following in the electronic transaction service:

• early childhood education application
• enrollment in pre-school education (both in kindergartens and for pre-school education in school premises)
• enrollment of schoolchildren in afternoon activities
• about changing the place of care of the transfer application
• I estimate the family's early childhood education fee

Current customers of early childhood education

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:

• early childhood education application
• enrollment in pre-school education (both in kindergartens and for pre-school education in school premises)
• enrollment of schoolchildren in afternoon activities
• about changing the care or club place of the transfer application
• change of telephone and e-mail contact information
• estimate of the early childhood education fee 
• acceptance of the highest early childhood education fee, in which case it is not necessary to provide income information
• dismissal of the early childhood education place. Dismissal of the treatment facility ends the treatment relationship and a new treatment facility must be applied for in accordance with the valid application conditions.

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.

Electronic decisions

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.

Adjustment claim instructions

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.

To the decision referred to in section 540, subsection 2018 of the Early Childhood Education Act (62/1), which concerns the child's right to early childhood education and admission to early childhood education.

To the decision referred to in Section 628 of the Basic Education Act (1998/42), which concerns admission to preschool education.