Admission for day nursery or public childminding

Your child will be offered the first available place according to its position on the waiting list and date of need, which does not have to be offered to a sibling to a child already enrolled in the day care offer.

You can see your child's position on the waiting list from your child turns four months old at Digital Pladsanvisning.

Yes. You can decline an offer without it affecting your child's position on the waiting list. If you decide to decline an offer, remeber to do it in writing. Pladsanvisningen may, however, postpone your date of need two months ahead from the starting date of the offer. The change of the date of need after having declined an offer only concerns the specific waiting list you have declined.

If your child already is enrolled and you decline a new day care offer that you have applied for, the child will be deleted from that waiting list.

If you do not reply once to an offer for enrolment in a day nursery or a public childminder, Pladsanvisningen may postpone your date of need two months ahead from the starting date of the offer. 

If you do not reply twice to an offer for enrolment in a day nursery or public childminder, Pladsanvisningen will remove your child from that waiting list. 

You may consider to register your child on the guarantee list and be guaranteed enrollment within 2 months from the registration date.

You may also consider private childcare.

Yes. Pladsanvisningen take siblings into consideration. This means that siblings will be offered enrolment before children on the waiting list who do not have a sibling in the day care.

In case you do not get an offer for enrolment in the day care were the sibling is already enrolled, you may accept an offer for another day care and keep the position on the waiting list to the sibling's day care. If you accept an offer to another day care, it is important that you inform Pladsanvisningen that you want the sibling to stay on the waiting list.

You can sign up your child from the day your child has a civil registration number (CPR number). However, the seniority date will be the same whether you sign your child up when your child is two days old or the day your child turns four months.

We recommend that you sign up your child no later than the day your child turns 4 months.

If your child is more than 4 months old, senority on the waiting list will be from the current registration date. 

You can sign up your child for day nursery and public childminding until your child is 2 years and 10 months old.

Yes, you can always make changes. Please note, however, that the senority date on the waiting list you have changed will be the current registration date.

Yes, you can always choose to substitute one day care wish with another. But please note the senority date on the waiting list you have changed will be the current registration date.

Please note that specific rules apply for transfer between day care services:

• The date of need has to be today's date
• You will only receive 1 offer for transfer
• Your child will be removed from the waiting list when it reaches the age of 2 years and 6 months.
• No matter if you accept, decline or do not reply to an offer for transfer, Pladsanvisningen will remove your child from the waiting list. 

You can subsequently choose to re-register your child on the waiting list to accumulate seniority as of the date on which you do so.

Each municipality can decide whether they want to have their waiting lists open to children from other municipalities. 

If you live in The City of Copenhagen, you can choose to sign up your child to waiting lists in another municipality. You have to contact the municipality you have in mind and enquire directly. Your child will be registered on their waiting list according to their rules, which may be different than the admission rules in Copenhagen.

On the website ventelistelukning.dk you will find information on the municipalities that have open or closed waiting lists for citizens from other municipalities.

Please note that the cost for day care in another municipality may be different for citizens who do not live in the municipality. It is the parental payment section in your municipality who can inform you about the cost.

The City of Copenhagen has closed its waiting lists for children from other municipalities until February 20th. 2025 (will be updated every 3rd month).

If you do not live in Copenhagen, you can still:

• Sign up your child on a waiting list to a company-owned day care facilitiy in case you and/or the other parent are employed in that company
• Sign up your child on a waiting list, if you live in Sweden and work in the City of Copenhagen.

You cannot use Digital Pladsanvisning, if:

• You do not have MitID
• You or your child do not have a civil registration number (CPR number)
• You do not have an officially registered address in Copenhagen
• You do not live on the same address as your child
• You do not have custody over your child.
• If you are abroad (not physically in Denmark)

Please contact Pladsanvisningen in case you cannot use Digital Pladsanvisning.