Day-care fees and service vouchers

The client fees in municipal early childhood education and the value of a service voucher in privately run early childhood education and care are affected by

• the size of the family, persons
• the agreed number of hours for early childhood education and care in accordance with the three-step client fee schedule
• income before deducting taxes
• the age of the child (only service voucher)

Effects of the time the child participates in early childhood education on the client fee/on the client’s responsibility, deductible, for a private service voucher from 1.8.2025

• The agreed time is 0–84 hours a month, up to 187 euros a month.
• The agreed time is 85 - 150 hours a month, up to 264 euros a month.
• The agreed time is 151 hours a month or more, up to 311 euros month.

The size of the family, persons and gross income for the highest client fee starting from 1st of August 2025 onwards:

• In a family of two persons, 6977 euros
• In a family of tree persons, 8156 euros
• In a family of four persons, 8867 euros
• In a family of five persons, 9578 euros
• In a family of six persons, 10 287 euros

The size of the family, persons and income limit  for the client fee starting from 1st of August 2025 onwards:

• In a family of two persons, 4066 euros
• In a family of tree persons, 5245 euros
• In a family of four persons, 5956 euros
• In a family of five persons, 6667 euros
• In a family of six persons, 7376 euros

For more information concerning the client fees in municipal early childhood education along with the value of the service voucher in privately run early childhood education and care, please, contact the secretary responsible for client fee issues within your own region.

Fees for municipal day-care 

At the beginning of municipal early childhood education, the family must submit an Income Statement by the end of the starting month. You can submit the Income Statement either by Edlevo App or paper form by mail. If you are a self-employed person, you must always submit a separate Income Statement for a Self-Employed Person with its appendices.

Mailing address:
Jyväskylän kaupunki, Kasvun ja oppimisen palveluohjaus, PL 82, 40101 Jyväskylä
Visiting address:
Kilpisenkatu 1 C, 40100 Jyväskylä

Email address: [email protected]

Customer Payment Secretary Elina Pasanen, tel. 050 401 2189

Customer Payment Secretary Jaana Svärd, tel. 050 341 4404

Customer Payment Secretary Anne Kuoppala, tel. 050 436 9450

Customer Payment Secretary Sari Ruokolainen, tel. 050 311 8881

A service voucher for services within privately run early childhood education

A service voucher is a support granted by the City of Jyväskylä when the family choose privately run early childhood education and care. Once the start of early childhood education has been agreed on with a private service provider, the family can apply for the service voucher through electronic services. The City of Jyväskylä shall grant a service voucher to the family based on the electronic application after it has been confirmed that the child has a place in a privately run day care centre, a group family day care centre or in family day care. Service voucher is to be paid to the private service provider of early childhood education. Service voucher within early childhood education is child-specific and you cannot be provided with private day care allowance or child home care allowance simultaneously for the purpose of arranging the child’s care.

The client is responsible for paying the portion of the private early childhood education service fee that exceeds the value of the service voucher. Additional prices have been indicated in the service provider information (day care centres for children / family day care). The family shall be notified of the value of the service voucher and the imputed municipal client fee (=client’s responsibility, deductible) either by letter or as an electronic message. 

The family shall agree directly with the private service provider on the child’s start in early childhood education and care. 

Decisions on the right to service vouchers are made at the Centre for Early Childhood Education Services. Families are informed about the decisions by mail or electronically, according to their choice.

Mailing address:
Jyväskylän kaupunki, Kasvun ja oppimisen palveluohjaus, PL 82, 40101 Jyväskylä
Visiting address:
Kilpisenkatu 1 C, 40100 Jyväskylä

Email address: [email protected]

Customer Payment Secretary Kirsi Parkkinen, tel. 050 475 4194 

Customer Payment Secretary Anne Friman, tel. 050 311 9967

Fees for children’s clubs

A fee for children’s clubs shall be determined based on the agreed club days.

• The club, which meets three times a week, costs 69 euros a month.
• The club, which meets two times a week, costs 46 euros a month.
• The club, which meets once a week, costs 23 euros a month.
• The family club fee is 6 euro per meeting, regardless of the size of the family.
• A fee for a child’s temporary care (3.5 hours a day): 7 euros a day

​The fee for children’s clubs is charged as a fixed monthly fee and absences from the children’s clubs shall not be reimbursed. As for the family clubs, only the times the child has participated in the club shall be charged. The family can apply for a Service Voucher for a privately run children's club. The participation in children’s clubs does not have an effect on child home care allowance.

You can apply for fee exemption from the children’s club based on income, social assistance or discretion (The Education Committee (Jyväskylä), Section 114/2014).
 

Reimbursement for client fees

Reimbursement for client fees related to municipal early childhood education shall be granted for the period of holiday when the absence has been notified within a set period. Reimbursement shall be paid for full days of absence which have been notified in advance. These shall reduce the number of monthly hours. Only weekdays entitle to reimbursement.  

The Education Committee (Jyväskylä) made a decision on the 24th of February 2021, according to which reimbursement for client fees in early childhood education shall be granted starting from the 1st of June 2021 during the holiday periods of pre-primary education and schools  and furthermore during the summer months, 1st of June–31st of August, as well as during the period of the childminders’ sick leaves and compensatory time offs in family day care. Reimbursement requires for that person who has custody of the child notifies of the child being absent.

More information on possible reimbursement procedures within privately run early childhood education and care is available directly from a day care centre for children or a family day care childminder.