- Individuals
- Licences, notices and applications
- Alcohol serving and sales
- Animals
- Animal breeding
- Animal health control
- Animal husbandry
- Animal shows and displays
- Animal transport authorisations
- Animal welfare certification
- Animal welfare violations
- Broiler stocking density notifications
- Contagious animal diseases
- Destruction of animals
- Laboratory animals
- Notifications relating to professional or large-scale keeping of animals
- Outdoor cattle grazing
- Wild animal farming
- Burials
- Corporate governance enforcement
- Education and culture
- Property development, housing and joint property management associations
- Real estate or letting agents
- Social welfare and health care
- Water and the environment
- Wealth and assets
- Work and occupational safety and health
- Guidance and advice
- Aerial forest fire surveillance
- Alcohol marketing
- Competition and consumer affairs
- Contagious animal diseases
- Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
- Customers’ rights
- Estate agents and letting agents
- Food control
- Free-range pigs and poultry
- Health protection
- Medicines
- Patients’ rights
- Restaurants and coronavirus
- Romani affairs
- Tobacco control and enforcement
- Water and the environment
- Wealth and assets
- Welfare and public health
- Challenging decisions
- Enforcement and reporting violations
- Licences, notices and applications
- Businesses
- Licences, notices and applications
- Alcohol serving and sales
- Animals
- Animal breeding
- Animal husbandry
- Animal health control
- Animal shows and displays
- Animal trade notices
- Animal transport authorisations
- Broiler stocking density notices
- Contagious animal diseases
- Destruction of animals
- Disinfection of livestock transport vehicles
- Disposal of water from animal transport vehicles
- Notifications relating to professional or large-scale keeping of animals
- Outdoor cattle grazing
- Private veterinary care provision
- Reindeer husbandry
- Wild animal farming
- Laboratory animals
- Burials
- Corporate governance enforcement
- Education and culture
- Property development, housing and joint property management associations
- Real estate or letting agents
- Social welfare and health care
- Tobacco sales
- Water and the environment
- Wealth and assets
- Work and occupational safety and health
- Guidance and advice
- Aerial forest fire surveillance
- Alcohol marketing
- Competition and consumer affairs
- Contagious animal diseases
- Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
- Estate agents and letting agents
- Food control
- Free-range pigs and poultry
- Medicines
- Quality assurance of social services
- Restaurants and coronavirus
- Rights and status of customers
- Rights and status of patients
- Water and the environment
- Romani affairs
- Wealth and assets
- Welfare and public health
- Self-regulation
- Enforcement and reporting violations
- Licences, notices and applications
- Government agencies
- Licences, notices and applications
- Guidance and advice
- Advice on the Finnish Health Protection Act
- Aerial forest fire surveillance
- Contamination of water supply
- Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
- Coordination of tobacco control
- Environmental health audits and consultancy
- Food
- Libraries
- Medicines
- Quality assurance of social services
- Rights and status of customers
- Rights and status of patients
- Romani affairs
- Veterinary medical care
- Water and the environment
- Welfare and public health
- Self-regulation
- Enforcement and reporting violations
- Customer service
Oversight of early childhood education and care services
At the Regional State Administrative Agencies, we monitor the quality and realisation of early childhood education and care. We supervise the activities of both municipal and private early childhood education and care providers. We monitor whether the early childhood education and care offered complies with the law. The Act on Early Childhood Education and Care includes provisions on matters such as group size and staffing level, the contents of early childhood education and care and the equal treatment of children.
Proactive guidance is a key part of our enforcement. The supervisory authorities specified in the Act on Early Childhood Education and Care – meaning the Regional State Administrative Agencies and the National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health – must primarily provide guidance and advice for the providers of early childhood education and care according to the law.
- The goal of the versatile guidance and advice is to ensure that early childhood education and care is of high quality and complies with the regulations.
- Examples of proactive guidance include the training events we organise and the guides we have drawn up.
- In addition, we instruct early childhood education and care providers to carry out self-regulation systematically.
Our enforcement is based on a supervisory programme as well as complaints or other communications we have received.
- We draw up the supervisory programme in cooperation with the National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health. The programme, which we update as needed, directs the focus areas of our enforcement. Further information: Supervisory programme (in Finnish).
- If you are planning to file a complaint about early childhood education and care, we recommend that you first file an objection with the unit, with the activities of which you are dissatisfied.
- You can find more detailed information on filing a complaint on the page Enforcement and reporting violations.