Part-time childcare service during parental leave

2024

Part-time childcare for children under the age of 3 costs DKK 3,919 per month if the institution offers lunch.
If the institution does not have lunch, it costs DKK 3,230 per month.

Part-time care in daycare costs DKK 3,209 per month.

Part-time childcare for children over 3 costs DKK 2,579 per month if the institution offers lunch.

If the institution does not have lunch, it costs DKK 1,802 per month.

2025

Part-time childcare for children under the age of 3 costs DKK 4,109 per month if the institution offers lunch.
If the institution does not have lunch, it costs DKK 3,397 per month.

Part-time care in daycare costs DKK 3,389 per month.

Part-time childcare for children over 3 costs DKK 2,772 per month if the institution offers lunch.

If the institution does not have lunch, it costs DKK 1,969 per month.

Yes, if you continue working partially, your child still has the right to a part-time place as long as one parent takes parental leave corresponding to 40% of the working time (e.g. 2 days a week or 16 hours in a 40-hour working week).

Yes, all municipal daycare services offer part-time childcare.

You can plan yourself when and how the hours are placed within the daycare's opening hours in collaboration with the daycare. The hours must be flexible in relation to the planned daily routine of the daycare. 

Please be aware that you are responsible for picking up and bringing your child yourself, e.g if your child is enrolled in a outlying kindergarten (udflytterbørnehave), and your 30 hours of childcare does not coincide with the departure and arrival times of the bus.

If your child is enrolled in a daycare in another municipality or in a private institution, you must send your application for part-time childcare in connection with your parental leave to Pladsanvisningen in The City of Copenhagen. You must send the application no later than two months before you wish to use the part-time place.

The part-time place can come into effect on the 1st of a month and end on the last working day of the month in which the parents' right to absence expires.

The City of Copenhagen must notify the private institution and/or the other municipality about the decision on a subsidy for a part-time position 30 hours per week no later than one month before the change comes into force. This also applies in the event of interruption or termination of the part-time position.