Day parents

Rules on the contribution of Kópavogur municipality as regards the placement of children with day parents. The Municipal Authorities of Kópavogur agree to pay a monthly payment, for eleven months a year, for the placement of children with day parents. The conditions for the payment of a contribution for the placement of a child with a day parent are as follows:

1. The child must be domiciled in Kópavogur. 

2. Payments may begin when the child has reached the age of ten months, or six months in the case of a single parent. 

3. The day parent in question must have an operating licence in accordance with the Regulation on daycare in private residences. 

4. The child must have accident insurance. 

5. A placement agreement must been reached between the day parent, parent and Kópavogur local authorities.

Single parents, students where both parents are full-time students and the disabled who have a disability assessment of 75% or more pay a lower fee and the contribution of Kópavogur is higher in such cases. 

Students must submit a certificate confirming their academic progress after each semester and the discount is retroactively corrected after each semester. Discounts for students do not apply from 1 June to 31 August unless the parents are engaged in full-time summer study courses. 

Kópavogur municipality grants a 50% sibling discount for a second child and a 75% discount for a third child, where siblings are in daycare at the same time. Sibling discounts are also granted in addition to other discounts. In addition, sibling discounts are granted on general nursery school fees and admission fees to Dægradvöl (after-school daycare) if younger siblings (aged six months or older) are with a day parent and also if younger siblings are in Dægradvöl or in nursery school. 

For further information, see the price list for nursery schools and Dægradvöl fees.

Counselling services in daycare involve both the provision of information and advice to day parents and guidance and information to parents. Advice and support to day parents is in the form of regular visits by the daycare representative at least twice a year. Advice is also provided by telephone.  Parents are also welcome to contact the daycare representative if necessary.

Monitoring duties are in the hands of day parents, parents and a dedicated monitoring representative within the Department of Education. 
The monitoring representative is María Kristjánsdóttir. 

The monitoring process is threefold:

1. Internal monitoring
Day parents send in registration forms to the daycare representative for the children who are beginning and the children who are leaving daycare. The daycare representative registers the information in the system and the monitoring representative uses this declaration report for external monitoring.

2. External monitoring
The monitoring representative pays three unannounced visits to the home of a day parent and checks the circumstances each time.

 3. Information from parents
Information is formally obtained once a year from parents as regards their opinion of the daycare arrangements of day parents.
Particular note is made of the fact that despite everything, the parents are in the best position to monitor the operation of day parents as they are in daily contact with the day parent.

All those who receive a licence to operate day care in private homes must fulfil certain conditions.  Click here to see the Regulation.

Kópavogur municipality grants operating licences to day parents and is responsible for monitoring them. When applying for an operating licence for the first time, the licence is granted for one year. During that year, the day parent may not have more than four children, including their own children, under the age of six staying at any one time. After the one-year trial period, permission is granted for one additional child.

The daycare representative provides day parents with advice and visits them once a year with the intention of providing professional support.

To change the duration of the child's stay with a day parent you will need to fill in a form which can be accessed below.
It is extremely important that the form is submitted before the fifteenth day of the month before the change is to come into effect.

Click here to fill in the form

Applications for placement are made directly to the day parent that you have selected from the list.