3. Early Childhood Education and Care 3.1. Organisation Early childhood education and care is divided into two stages: → care for children aged 0 to 3 years provided in childcare institutions, including crèches and kids clubs, and by day carers and nannies in other settings; → preschool education for children aged 3 to 6/7 years provided in nursery schools, preschool classes in primary schools and other settings, including preschool education units and centres.
Care for children aged 0–3 years (2018) Types of childcare institutions / settings Crèches and crèche sections Kids clubs
Number of institutions
Available places
3,144
126,294
632
11,289
Day carers
1,249
6,459
Total
5,025
144,042
The System of Education in Poland 2020
6,969 nannies registered in the national social security system.
30
Crèches are the main childcare setting; kids clubs are smaller establishments, each taking up to 30 children. Day carers are hired by a commune, a legal entity or another institution on the basis of a service contract, and nannies by parents on the basis of a civil law contract. Crèches, day carers and nannies provide care to children aged between 20 weeks and 3 years, and kids clubs to children aged 1 year and above. Care can be provided until the end of the school year in which the child reaches the age of 3 or up to the age of 4 if the child is unable to participate in preschool education (with reasons to be presented in a statement from the parents). The proportion of children attending childcare institutions rose from 8.3% in 2015 to 13.0% in 2018, and of those in care in all settings, including that of nannies, from 12.4% in 2015 to 19.3% in 2018.
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