The Local Sweden

Swedish daycare worker jailed for child sex abuse

Sat, 12 Dec 2015 10:40:10 +0100

A Swedish court on Friday sentenced a male daycare (dagis) worker to six and a half years in prison for four cases of rape and 20 cases of sexual assault against toddlers aged one to three in his charge.

Parental leave bonus to be scrapped in 2017

Wed, 16 Sep 2015 17:27:43 +0200

Couples in Sweden will no longer be entitled to a gender equality bonus for spliting parental leave, if the government's autumn budget gets passed next month.

'With Swedish childcare everyone's a winner'

Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:15:00 +0100

Our northern Sweden correspondent, Paul Connolly, loves the Swedish "dagis" system - luckily so do his twin daughters, who have just started daycare in the Nordic nation.

Nursery kids find drugs stash in woods

Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:50:00 +0100

Police were called in after Swedish nursery children, on a routine outing to the forest, found a mystery drugs stash which authorities said was worth a lot of money.

Daycare closed after kids put in 'danger'

Sat, 08 Mar 2014 13:30:00 +0100

A nursery in Stockholm has been closed with immediate effect after inspectors discovered that children were being left alone in dirty diapers and that a child almost got run over in traffic.

Top ten: Tips to surviving Swedish day care

Wed, 28 Aug 2013 09:15:00 +0200

Day care, (dagis in Swedish), can be a minefield of tears, tantrums, and transformations - and that's just the parents. The Local's Patrick Reilly draws on his own experience as a father to provide the top ten tips to surviving.

Two kids disappear from Stockholm pre-school

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 12:36:00 +0200

Two toddlers disappeared from a suburban Stockholm pre-school on Friday, and while they were soon found again it remains unclear how they managed to leave the playground unnoticed.

Granddad took wrong child from daycare

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:45:00 +0200

A grandfather who agreed to pick up his grandchild from a daycare in Örebro in central Sweden on Monday took the wrong child, prompting the school to review its procedures.

Home childcare trend fuels segregation fears

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:49:00 +0100

Sweden’s childcare allowance is proving ever-more popular in heavily immigrant neighbourhoods, resulting in the closure of some preschools and prompting fears about the measure’s unintended consequences.

Children banned from wearing multi-coloured clothes

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:34:00 +0100

A pre-school in the northern Swedish town of Koskullskulle has banned children from wearing clothes with stripes or polka-dots.

Tuberculosis strikes Stockholm daycare centre

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:11:00 +0200

The deadly tuberculosis virus has struck a daycare centre in a Stockholm suburb, prompting checkups for more than 50 young children, employees and parents.