The City of Ghent Childcare Center provides day care for more than 6500 children in 74 facilities across the city and collaborates actively with all initiatives involved in early child development on a regional, national and international level.
The City offers daycare for 0 to 3 year olds, an extensive out-of-school care programme supporting kindergarten (2,5 -6 years) and a holiday care service for school children from 3 up to 12 years.
We aim to build and work in a competent system. More than 600 professionally trained caregivers and coordinators and a team of pedagogical experts ensure innovative and visionary quality care. Focus is on total development and wellbeing of the children, participation of children, parents and communities, equal access and engaging vulnerable and disadvantaged families. Our main aim is to offer children equal chances to develop, feel good, participate and relate with people and society, while respecting diversity.
Through this approach, the City of Ghent strives to build a community of responsible citizens who can develop themselves freely and count on the necessary support.

News

Parenting as a Talent for Future Childcare Workers

The Childcare Unit of the city of Ghent, also ISSA member, is training parents as childcare workers. Parents involved in parent participation actions in the Ghent Childcare Settings are addressed and ...

More than 450 attendees from 60 countries at ISSA 2017 Conference in Ghent

ISSA's 2017 international conference "Local Responses, Global Advances: Towards Competent Early Childhood Systems", attracted over 450 participants from 60 countries from around the wor...

Video: looking back at ISSA Conference 2017 in Ghent

Our ISSA Conference 2017 video is up. Have a look to see what happened in Ghent. Watch it, and watch is again. Share it. See if you can spot yourself, your colleagues or your peers! A big thank you to...

Peer Learning Activity - City of Ghent Calls for Expression of Interest

The Childcare Unit of the City of Ghent is currently investigating several opportunities for a Peer Learning Activity which is to be called 'Methods for a Competent Early Childhood System.' More speci...

City of Ghent develops a mobile child care center

Photo Courtesy of the Child Care Unit, City of Ghent In response to the needs of vunerable families, the Child Care Unit of the City of Ghent has created an innovative solution—a POP UP childcare...

Resources

REYN Early Childhood Research Study

The European REYN Early Childhood Research Study (the REYN Study) provides an examination of the status of young Roma children and their families across Europe. It offers a comprehensive understanding...