Finnish news website Yle Uutiset features many interesting English-language articles about child care in Finland, highlighting both its successes and challenges. Here is a selection:

• Parents up in arms over kids cleaning at daycare [2], 10 Mar 14
• Family-style neighbourhood daycare: A disappearing tradition? [3], 1 Feb 14
• Minister: Right to three years of child care leave will remain [4], 24 Oct 13
• Multilingual families seek daycare groups [5], 20 Aug 13
• Shift away from family day care [6], 13 Apr 13
• Daycare workers want to limit access for stay-at-home parents [7], 5 Mar 13
• Finland a leader in early childhood development [8], 11 Dec 08

Related links:

• What the U.S. can learn from Finland, where school starts at age 7 [9], National Public Radio 8 Mar 2014
• Finland working to expand early education [10], Washington Post, 4 Mar 2014
• Quality matters in early childhood education and care: Finland [11], OECD, 30 Apr 2012

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