- Early Childhood Education and Care
- Preschool and comprehensive school
- Schools
- Valkon koulu (Finnish school)
- Forsby skola (Swedish school)
- Generalshagens skola (Swedish school)
- Isnäsin koulu (Finnish school)
- Isnäs skola (Swedish school)
- Lovisavikens skola (Swedish school)
- Sävträsk skola (Swedish school)
- Harjurinteen koulu (Finnish school)
- Ruukin koulu (Finnish school)
- Koskenkylän koulu (Finnish school)
- Tesjoen koulu (Finnish school)
- Tessjö skola (Swedish school)
- Curriculum
- School days and holidays
- Enrolment to school
- Support for learning and student welfare
- School transports
- Morning and afternoon clubs
- Morning and afternoon care of pre-schoolers
- Schools
- Upper Secondary Schools
- Vocational education
- Civic college
- The food in the childcare units and comprehensive schools
Fees for early childhood education and care
The customer fee is made up of the size and income of the family as well as of the time spent in early childhood care and education.
Client fees
The client fee for early childhood education and care services depends on family size and income.
Exceptions: family accepts the highest fee
Please submit an account of your income within a month after the childcare has started by filling in the income statement at Vesa service. If you don´t have possibility to use electronic services. Printed forms can be found from page Early Childhood Education and Care or they can be ordered or collected from customer service bureau Lovinfo; Mariankatu 12 A, 07900 Loviisa, puh. 019 555 555, lovinfo@loviisa.fi.
The highest fee is applied if you do not submit an account of your family’s income within a month after the client relationship has begun. If you submit an income account too late, the income-related fee is applied from the beginning of the month during which you submitted the account of your income.
NB! The payment of the previous month is invoiced at the beginning of the following calendar month, for instance the payment of August is invoiced at the beginning of September. In order to avoid double monthly payments, please supply your income specifications and appendices as soon as possible.
The fees are based on the Act of Client Fees in Early Childhood Education and Care (1503/2016, amended 1052/2020). The fee is a monthly fee, which is regularly charged for max 11 calendar months during the business year (August the 1st to July the 31st).
Fees charged for full-time and part time early childhood care and education
The maximum monthly fee for full-time early childhood care and education of the youngest child in the family is 311 euros. The maximum monthly fee for full-time early childhood care and education of the next youngest child in the same family is 40 %, i.e. 124 euros. The fee for each following child is 20 % of the fee of the youngest child in early childhood care and education.
| Time in early childhood care and education | Fee percentage of full-time fee | Maximum fee in euros per month |
| On average max 20 hours per week (0–86 h/month) | 60 | 187 |
| 21–25 hours per week (87–107 h/month) | 70 | 218 |
| 26–35 hours per week (108–150 h/month) | 80 | 249 |
| More than 35 hours per week (151–210 h/month) | 100 | 311 |
The fee is based on a written contract on the need for for early childhood education and care. The monthly need for service, i.e. hours per month, is specified in the contract. The contract can be altered from the beginning of the following month so that it meets with the needs. The aim is, however, to make the contract for a minimum of three months at a time.
Declaring care times
The care times are declared electronically using the service eVarhaiskasvatus at the latest at 11:59 pm on the Sunday two weeks before the care is needed.
Pre primary education
Pre primary education according to the Basic Education Act is free of charge. If the child needs complementary early childhood education and care in addition to the pre primary education, the fee is determined as follows, excepting the school holidays when the fee is determined according to the customer fees for early childhood educatione and care.
| Time in early childhood care and education | Fee percentage of full-time fee | Maximum fee in euros per month |
| On average max 20 hours per week (0–86 h/month) | 60 | 187 |
| 21–25 hours per week (87–107 h/month) | 70 | 218 |
| 26–35 hours per week (108–150 h/month) | 80 | 249 |
Fee for temporary place in early childhood care and education
The fee for the need of temporary place in early childhood care and education (maximum 10 days) is
| 0-4 hours in early childhood education and care | 5 euros / hours |
| over 4 hours in early childhood education and care | 20 euros / day |
Month free of charge
July is free of charge for all children.
How is the fee determined?
When determining the monthly fees we consider the married persons or persons living in marriage-like conditions living in a shared household as well as the minors of them both living with them in the same household.
If the guardians of the child live in different addresses within the municipality, the fee is determined according to that family where the child according to the population register lives (immediate guardian). This principle is also used when the child lives half the time with either parent. If the child is participating in early childhood education and care only on those weeks when the child lives with the remote guardian, the fee is determined according to the remote guardian’s family size and income.
If early childhood education and care is arranged for the child in two municipalities, the fee is determined separately in each municipality.
The fee is calculated according to the income that supersedes the income level determined by family size according to the table below:
| Size of family, persons | Income level, euros per month | Percentage of fee | Fee 311 euros, if the income supersedes |
| 2 | 4066 | 10.7 | 6973 |
| 3 | 5245 | 10.7 | 8152 |
| 4 | 5956 | 10.7 | 8863 |
| 5 | 6667 | 10.7 | 9574 |
| 6 | 7376 | 10.7 | 10283 |
Example
The family consists of a mother, father and two children (1-year-old and 4-year-old). The incomes of the family are 6 500 euros per month.
The fee is determined as follows:
€ 6500 – (income level) € 5956 = € 544
10,7 % x € 544 = € 58.20 /month/the youngest child and after rounding off the fee € 58 /month. The fee for the second child is € 28.28 /month, € 0 /month.
If there are more than six family members the income level that makes the base for determining the fee is raised by 275 euros for each of the subsequent minor in the family.
The fee is not collected if the incomes of the family are less than the income level or if the fee of the child is less than 30 euros.
When determining the fee the family’s combined taxable earned income and capital income as well as tax exempt income, for example:
- Earned income, income from property or rental income, agricultural income and forestry income as well as individual earnings from exercising a profession
- Child maintenance, maintenance benefit and pension income (are considered for the child who is in care)
- Unemployment allowance and labour market subsidy
- Life annuity and daily allowance from accident insurance, day allowance from health insurance as well as parenthood allowance, partial care allowance and flexible care allowance
- Education allowance granted in accordance with the act on labour politic education, which is paid out in the form of basic unemployment allowance with child raises according to the act on unemployment allowances
- Fringe benefits and holiday bonus. If the size of the holiday bonus cannot be seen from the pay statement, we will add to the pay income a calculated holiday bonus of 5 %, except when the family delivers a statement showing that the holiday bonus is not equal to the calculated or if the family gives a certificate that the employer does not pay a holiday bonus.
If the monthly income is irregular, the average income of the last year is considered. A holiday bonus (5 %) is added to the taxable income.
As income is not considered:
Child benefits, benefits in accordance with the act on disability benefits (570/2007), increases for a child, housing benefits, medical care and examination costs made according to accident insurance, conscript’s allowance, front veterans’ supplements, student grants, adult education allowances, student housing allowances, as income support paid activities allowance and travel compensations in accordance with the National Insurance Act (568/2007), maintenance compensations in accordance with the act on the Department of Social Security’s rehabilitation benefits and monetary rehabilitation benefits (566/2005), expenses compensation in accordance with the act on public employment and business services (916/2012), allowances and other comparable grants paid out due to studies, compensations for family care costs and home care allowances.
In the reduction of incomes is considered:
Paid child maintenances and other similar costs due to factual family relations and benefit paid out in money for a specified time or life long time in connection with property transfer (life annuity).
Sending the income information
If the family, when applying for the place in early childhood care and education, has accepted the highest fee, there is no need to send a separate statement of incomes.
The form of incomes is filled and signed. Even in such a case where the guardians have no incomes. A statement of there being no incomes, such as a negative decision of unemployment allowance, is attached.
NB! If the applicant does not provide family’s income information within (1) month of the start of the care relationship, the fee will be set at the highest fee. If the family is late in reporting their incomes, the fee will only be determined on the basis of the income data from the beginning of the month in which the income data is submitted. No retroactive adjustment will be made. An appeal against the decision may be lodged within 30 days of notification of the decision.
Attachments to declaration of incomes
Employee:
- Pay statement/payslip, showing the accumulated salary/wages, the time from when the accumulation began as well as holiday bonus included in the accumulation and lay-off periods
- Copy of decision concerning daily allowance
- Certificate of studies or being on a course and decision of student financial aid or student grant
- Copy of contract or receipt of received child maintenance or maintenance benefit
- Receipt of paid child maintenance
- Receipt of the child’s or the guardian’s pension
- Receipts of other incomes (rental, dividend, agricultural and forestry income)
Entrepreneur:
- Form filled by the accountant Income declaration of business (finns ingen engelsk text på andra sidan av länken)
- Advance tax ruling for ongoing year
- Year-end financial statements and attachments
- Copy of start-up grant decision