Private childcare by a childminder

Subsidy rates 2024

Minimum of 30 hours per week 
Children under 3 years * = DKK 7,776 in subsidy per month with a minimum payment of DKK 2,592 in parental payment (the parents' total payment DKK 10,368)

Children over 3 years ** = DKK 4,297 in subsidy per month with a minimum payment of DKK 1,432 in parental payment (the parents' total payment DKK 5,729)

Between 20-29 hours per week 
Children under 3 years * = DKK 6,305 in subsidy per month with a minimum payment of DKK 2,102 in parental payment (the parents' total payment DKK 8,407)

Children over 3 years ** = DKK 3,484 in subsidy per month with a minimum payment of DKK 1,161 in parental payment (parents' total payment DKK 4,645)

Between 11-19 hours per week 
Children under 3 years of age *= DKK 4,203 in subsidy per month with a minimum payment of DKK 1,401 in parental payment (the parents' total payment DKK 5,604)

Children over 3 years ** = DKK 2,323 in subsidy per month with a minimum payment of DKK 774 in parental payment (parents' total payment DKK 3,097)

* The subsidy is regulated from the first of the month your child turns 3 years old. A new contract for private childcare must be submitted. If not, the subsidy will stop automatically.

** No later than the first of the month in which a place is offered in a kindergarten class. 

The City of Copenhagen calculates the amount of the subsidy. The subsidy is determined according to the number of calendar days in the month in question.

Example 
You receive a subsidy of DKK 7,351 per month. The payment to the private childminder, however, is only for 20 days in the month of April, which has 30 calendar days. 

The calculation will then be like this: 7,351/30x20 = DKK 4,901 in subsidy for 20 days. If the total payment is DKK 10,924 per month, the calculation looks like this: 10,924/30x20 = DKK 7,283 per month for childcare for 20 days.

No, it is not possible to get income-based subsidy for private childcare. 

Yes, you can get sibling allowance in pivate childcare. If you have more than one child in a municipal daycare or in private childcare, you will automatically receive sibling allowance. 

You pay full price for the most expensive place and receive a sibling allowance for the other place. Sibling allowance amounts to 50% when the cheapest place is a municipal daycare. 

When the cheapest place is a private childcare arrangement, you receive a sibling allowance that corresponds to 42.5% of the price of an age-appropriate day care without food.

However, you cannot get sibling allowance if you have a child who attends a private leisure institution.

It is a private childcare arrangement with a minimum of 10 children who are looked after in buisness premises where there is a pedagogical manager.

The large private childcare scheme must be organized so it promotes children's learning through safe educational learning environments.

The parents enter into a contract with the large private childcare scheme and not with the individual private childminder.