Daycare centres in Jyväskylä have returned to normal opening hours

In the operating year 2025–2026, changes will be visible in the everyday lives of client families, such as changes in the service network, the opening hours of daycare centres and the lesson classes affecting the client fee. In addition, daycare centres will return to the use of identifier tags recorded in and out of the daycare centre.

The new operating year will bring changes to the service network of Jyväskylä's municipal daycare centres

The new daycare centre in Lohikoski is open and has received the first children in daycare . The daycare centre, which was completed at Tyyppäläntie 20, has places for approximately 170 children of early childhood education age. The daycare centre is open on Mondays to Fridays from 6.30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Operations at the Tikkakoski and Ritoniemi daycare centres ended in the summer. The children of the Tikkakoski daycare centre will start on 4.8. Luonetjärvi and Liinalampi daycare centres. The children of Ritoniemi daycare centre have been placed in other daycare centres in eastern Palokka and in the new Lohikoski daycare centre.

In the Jyväskylä city centre area, early childhood education and pre-primary education groups will continue at the Voionmaa daycare centre until the City Centre daycare centre to be built at Voionmaankatu 18 is completed. According to the current estimate, the new daycare centre will be opened in early 2027.

The early childhood education situation in the Halssila area will be alleviated by the new Kivistö daycare centre, which will be completed in August 2026. In the future, the Kivistö daycare centre will replace the Halssila and Aittorinne daycare centres.

Changes in the opening hours of daycare centres 

From Monday 4.8.2025, some of the early childhood education daycare centres in Jyväskylä are open on weekdays from 6.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. and some from 6.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m., if necessary.  Daycare centre-specific opening hours can be found on the website of each daycare centre. To the Daycare Centres in Jyväskylä website (website is in Finnish)

In Jyväskylä, there are six extended daycare centres that will be open from 5:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.; Kangasvuori, Korpilahti, Kotimäki, Liinalammi, Luhtinen and Pohjanlampi daycare centres. Tapiola Daycare Centre is the only daycare centre in the city that is open every day of the year from 00:00 to 24:00.

The lesson classes affecting the client fee for early childhood education in Jyväskylä will change as of 1.8.2025

The client fee for early childhood education and care is determined according to the lesson class, the family's gross income and the size of the family. From 1 August 2025, there will be three classes for children under pre-primary education age instead of the previous five classes. The change applies to both private and municipal early childhood education and care services. 

In Jyväskylä's daycare centres, the child is logged in and out with an identification tag

On 4 August 2025, municipal daycare centres in Jyväskylä have returned to the practice of registering and exiting children with an identification tag. The identification tag is clicked on the employee's phone at the daycare centre.

The introduction of tag tags increases the general safety of children. When a guardian brings and picks up the child on the phone of the daycare centre employee, the staff has up-to-date information about all the children brought to the scene and picked up. At the same time, the child's care times are also recorded in the system in real time. If the child is brought or picked up by a substitute applicant named in the child's information, the child is logged in and out manually via the employee's phone.

Further information: 
Tarja Ahlqvist, Service Director, Early Childhood Education, tel. 040 5167269