Finland to scale back planning obligations in early-childhood education

THE QUALITY of Finnish early-childhood education will erode if the government moves forward with its plan to scale back the planning obligations of education providers, warn the Finnish National Agency for Education (OPH) and the Early-Childhood Teachers’ Union of Finland (VOL).

Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s (NCP) government is set to scrap the obligations to draft municipality-specific early-childhood education plans and daycare-specific non-discrimination plans.