Daycare fees and applying in Espoo
Are you looking for a daycare place for your child in Espoo?
Espoo has over 20 private Pilke daycare centres, and you can find information and contact details for them all here.
Each daycare centre’s own webpage explains how to apply for a place at the daycare centre in question and outlines customer fees, sibling discounts, etc.
Additionally, some of the daycare centres are participating in the City of Espoo’s trial of 20 hours per week of free early childhood education and care for children under 5.
Read more about daycare centre prices and how to apply to a daycare centre in Espoo:
- How to apply for a daycare place at a Pilke daycare centre in Espoo
- A few of our Espoo daycare centres are outsourced daycare centres, and you apply to them in exactly the same way as you would apply to Espoo’s municipal daycare centres.
- Read more: (espoo.fi) Private early childhood education and care is a good alternative to municipal ECEC
- Read more: (espoo.fi) Applying for private early childhood education and care in Espoo
How to apply for a daycare place at a Pilke daycare centre in Espoo
1.When it’s time to apply for a daycare place, read more about our daycare centres in Espoo here.
Although there is high demand in many areas, it is possible to get a daycare place at very short notice. If there aren’t any places currently available at the daycare centre of your choice, you can apply to be on a waiting list. The situation at our daycare centres can sometimes change quite rapidly, and we then offer any places that become available to families on the waiting list.
2.Contact a daycare centre manager to arrange an introductory visit; you can find the contact details on the webpage for the daycare centre in question
3. Fill out and send a daycare centre application form to Pilke
The application is quick and easy to do, and takes just a few minutes. You don’t need to attach any files to the application, just fill out:
- your child’s information
- your contact details
- parents’/guardians’ information
- the need for care (full-time, part-time, preschool education, other)
- preferred start date
- any additional information (allergies, any particular requests or notes)
Sending a daycare application is not binding. We will make a service agreement when you accept an offered daycare place.
4.Once you have sent the application, the daycare centre manager will contact you within 2 business days to provide you with additional information about the daycare centre. You will be able to ask more questions about e.g. support for customer fees and how to apply for a service voucher for early childhood education and care.
5. Apply for a service voucher
Service vouchers for private early childhood education and care in Espoo
Most Pilke daycare centres in Espoo accept service vouchers. The City of Espoo participates in the costs of customer fees for private early childhood education and care by awarding families child-specific service vouchers; read more here on the City of Espoo’s website.
How much does daycare cost?
The customer fees at our Espoo daycare centres that accept service vouchers are either the same price as or a maximum of 50 euros per month per child higher than municipal early childhood education and care. Families can decide for themselves which private daycare centre they apply to using the service voucher awarded to them.
The price of the daycare centre, i.e., the customer fee, is determined by the value of the service voucher and the agreed daycare time. Ask your daycare centre manager for more information!
How do I apply for an early childhood education and care service voucher in Espoo?
Apply for a service voucher using Espoo’s online early childhood education and care service.
- The city will notify families directly when a service voucher is awarded.
- The deductible component of the service voucher for private ECEC is calculated as a percentage of the family’s gross income in the same way as the customer fee for municipal ECEC is calculated.
- In practice, the family pays a deductible as a customer fee for daycare, and the municipality pays the amount awarded as a service voucher.
More information is available on the City of Espoo’s website: “Determining the value of child-specific service vouchers from 1 August 2023”
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