When is scheduled day care an option?
When your child needs scheduled day care because of your work or study schedule, the city of Turku can arrange it in the evenings, weekends, or round-the-clock. Locations offering scheduled day care are situated around Turku.
How is a scheduled day care place granted?
Scheduled day care is arranged for children whose early childhood education agreement has been recorded as having a need for it. When applying for scheduled day care, please include a certificate of your work or studying schedule.
Policies on Scheduled day care
Scheduled day care policies approved by the Education Committee of the City of Turku as of 1.3.2023.
According to section 5 of the Act on Early Childhood Education and Care (540/2018), a municipality must organise early childhood education and care to the extent and with the forms of activity required by the need in the municipality. The same section also mentions that the daycare centre's activities during the calendar year and its opening hours per day must be organised according to local needs.
According to section 9 of the Act on Early Childhood Education and Care, the daily duration of early childhood education and care may not exceed ten hours continuously, with the exception of scheduled day care, where the daily duration is in accordance with the child's needs.
Section 13 of the Act on Early Childhood Education and Care lays down the following provisions on the organisation of scheduled day care: scheduled day care care is provided in the evenings, at nights, at weekends and on weekdays and public holidays in daycare centres or family day care. Round-the-clock care must be arranged to the extent necessary for a child who needs it due to the work or study of a parent or other guardian. The right to scheduled day care care is therefore not a subjective right for a child.
Daycare centres operating during the day are mainly open from 6.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. and, if necessary, from 6.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m., based on the guardians' shifts or studies.
Early childhood education and care, which is offered in scheduled day care centres between 17:00 and 6:30, is scheduled day care. In addition, early childhood education and care provided on weekends and public holidays is scheduled day care. Early childhood education is organised in daycare centres that are open in the evenings until 22:00.
scheduled day care in early childhood education and care is organised at all times of the day and on all days of the week. Other daycare centres are mainly closed on Midsummer, and the last opening hours end on the previous weekday.
At Christmas, the opening hours follow the opening hours of Midsummer, the last opening hours end on the previous weekday. At Midsummer and Christmas, other scheduled day care centres usually open on the next weekday. The needs of Midsummer and Christmas services will be centralised in scheduled day care centres.
The number of children and staff in groups of children in alternate day care centres is higher than in regular day care groups. If. As a rule, the groups have four people in care and education dutie in scheduled day care (six people in scheduled day care) and a corresponding number of children in accordance with section 1 of the Government Decree on Early Childhood Education and Care (753/2018). If.
The groups of children have been divided into small groups so that the provisions of section 35 of the Act on Early Childhood Education and Care (540/2018) are met. The childcare times and the staff's working hours in scheduled day care are divided into different times of the day (morning, day, evening and night).
There is no subjective right to scheduled day care. Scheduled day care is only arranged for children whose need for scheduled day care has been recorded in the early childhood education agreement. In this case, guardians will also be able to make reservations for evenings, nights and weekends in the early childhood education system.
When applying for scheduled day care, the early childhood education provider will ask for a certificate of the need for scheduled day care. Such is the case, for example. the employer's certificate for the parent's shift work. The need for scheduled day care is reviewed regularly, however, at least once per operating period.
The need for scheduled day care may arise from the parents' regular and continuous shift work or similar work or studies. In round-the-clock care, the children's attendance times in early childhood education are primarily based on the parents' shifts.
The child can be in early childhood education when both parents are at work, as well as after the night shift during the parents' sleep time. A reasonable amount of sleep is defined as eight hours. Other childcare needs must be arranged in another way. As a rule, the parent's days off and holidays are the child's days off and holidays.
From the perspective of the child's well-being, a child in scheduled day care also needs days off from early childhood education. The guardians must ensure that the child has a sufficient number of days off. An average of eight days off per month is considered sufficient. The agreement on the child's early childhood education and care includes a plan for the implementation of the days off.
If the need for scheduled day care ends, an early childhood education place will be arranged for the child in another group, daycare centre or family daycare. In Turku, round-the-clock Finnish-language early childhood education is organised every day of the week only at the Kaskenmäki daycare centre, and Swedish-language at the Port Arthur daycare centre.
If the child's need for scheduled day care ends but the need for evening care continues, the child's early childhood education will primarily be arranged at the Kaskenmäki daycare centre, and Swedish-language early childhood education at Daghem Port Arthur. In other cases, an early childhood education place is arranged for the child at another daycare centre or family daycare.
The City of Turku's early childhood education decides on the transfer of a child to another group, daycare centre or family daycare, as well as on the time of the transfer. The matter is discussed with the child's guardians before the decision is made.
Temporary round-the-clock care can be offered to young schoolchildren (grades 1 and 2) on a discretionary basis, if it is possible with existing resources after the early childhood education and care of children under school age has been organised.
The child's early childhood education needs for the following week and weekend, including evening and night care, must be recorded in the early childhood education system by Monday at 12 noon at the latest, when the system will be locked.
Needs reported after the deadline can only be taken into account if it is possible according to the confirmed shifts of the staff. In addition to system reservations, guardians must submit shift lists or study schedules confirmed by the employer to the shift care unit upon request.
Apply for a scheduled day care place this way
Apply online in eVaka. If you cannot apply online, you can fill out a printable form and send it to us. You can also bring the form to our service desk Monitori Market Square. If you need help filling out the form, you can call us or visit the service desk. Submit your application at least four months before your child starts attending early childhood education.