Addresses and further information on childcare

You can obtain information and help in choosing the best childcare facility for your child from the offices and institutions listed here.

• Austria-wide
• Burgenland
• Carinthia
• Lower Austria
• Upper Austria
• Salzburg
• Styria
• Tyrol
• Vorarlberg
• Vienna

Austria-wide

• 'Alleinerziehend' (Single parent) – Association for single parents and separated parents^{German text}
  Counselling and help with childcare issues.
• Austrian Public Employment Service (AMS)^{German text}
  Information and counselling on the following topics, amongst others:
  • Childcare allowance (AMS)^{German text}
  • Re-entry into the labour market (AMS)^{German text}
• younus^{German text}
  Mentoring programme for the individual support of children and young people aged 6 to 17.
• Parental Part-Time Work (BMASGPK)^{German text}
  Information on the regulations concerning parental leave and parental part-time work.
• The Chancellery - Division for Families and Youth (BKA)^{German text}
  The section on ‘Family’ provides the following services, amongst others:
  • Counselling and Information (BKA)^{German text}
  • Financial support (BKA)^{German text}
  • Child care in Austria (BKA)^{German text}
• Federal Association of Childminders in Austria^{German text}
  The Federal Association of Childminders in Austria ensures the ongoing development of the profession of childminder.
• Federal Association of parent-managed children's groups in Austria (BÖE)^{German text}
  Central office and contact agency for parent-managed or self-organised children's groups throughout Austria.
• Caritas^{German text}
  Support services for families.
• Family Business^{German text}
  Initiative for networking, mediation and analysis of childcare offers (including au pair and day mother/day care provider mediation as well as babysitter exchange).
• Hilfswerk Österreich^{German text}
  Child minders/day care providers, kindergartens, after-school care, playgroups, school and learning care, babysitting, etc.
• Catholic Family Association Austria^{German text}
  Arrangement of childcare places, child minders/day fathers, grandma/grandpa services, babysitting.
• 'Kinderfreunde'^{German text}
  The children's and family organisation ‘Kinderfreunde’ offers childcare in most provinces in crèches and nurseries, kindergartens and, from primary school onwards, afternoon care in after-school centres or the Kidsclub. In addition, the organisation organises numerous holiday camps and summer academies for children throughout Austria during the holidays. Details on the offers (Kinderfreunde)^{German text} of the organisation can be found on its website.
• Montessori Network Austria^{German text}
• Austrian Trade Union Federation – women's department (ÖGB)^{German text}
• Platform EduCare^{German text}
  Working group for elementary and out-of-school education.
• RAINBOWS – 'Für Kinder in stürmischen Zeiten' (for chrildren in difficult times)^{German text}
  RAINBOWS accompanies children and young people who are affected by the separation/divorce of their parents or the death of someone close to them. For this purpose, the association offers group work, but also care in holiday camps.
• UniKid-UniCare Austria^{German text}
  Network of experts and contact points for reconciling work/study and family care responsibilities at Austrian universities.
• Association 'Eltern für Kinder Österreich' (parents for children Austria) (efk)^{German text}
  This association offers, among other things, day care for children, employment opportunities for foster parents, family counselling and information on adoption.
• Association 'KiB – Children Care' (KiB)^{German text}
  Help for children suffering from an illnesses.
• 'Volkshilfe' Austria^{German text}
  In Volkshilfe's childcare facilities in Austria, the focus is on individual support for each child.
• Waldorf kindergartens in Austria^{German text}
  Information and contact addresses for Waldorf kindergartens.
• w2b – woman2business (WKO)^{German text}
  Female entrepreneurs can network with each other to solve the problem of childcare together.

Burgenland

• Bildungsdirektion Burgenland^{German text}
  Information on afternoon care at schools in Burgenland.
• Project 'Tagesmütter Burgenland'^{German text}
  Information for people who are looking for childminders or want to become childminders.

Carinthia

• AVS-Tagesmütter (AVS Carinthia)^{German text}
• Bildungsdirektion Carinthia^{German text}
  Information on after-school care at schools in Carinthia.

Lower Austria

• Caritas (Diocese St. Pölten)^{German text}
  Pedagogically trained childminders/day fathers take over the care of children in their homes during the day when the parents are working.
• Family Department ('Familienreferat') - Office of the Federal Government of Lower Austria^{German text}
  Support, service, and counselling of the Province of Lower Austria.
• Hilfswerk Lower Austria^{German text}
  Afternoon and holiday care for children as well as infant care by pedagogically trained professionals, placement of child minders/day fathers, ‘mobile mommies’ and surrogate mommies/surrogate mommies throughout Lower Austria.
• 'Kinderfreunde' Lower Austria^{German text}
  The 'Kinderfreunde' Lower Austria offer, among other things, holiday activities and holiday camps (Kinderfreunde)^{German text} for children and young people throughout Austria and abroad during the school holidays and over weekends.
• Bildungsdirektion Lower Austria^{German text}
  Information on afternoon care at schools in Lower Austria.
• Association 'LERNTIGER'^{German text}
  Non-profit association, offers childcare by trained educational professionals at several locations in Lower Austria.

Upper Austria

• Bildungsdirektion Upper Austria^{German text}
  Information about afternoon care at schools in Upper Austria.
• Childminder Association Upper Austria^{German text}
  Network for people who are looking for or want to become childminders.
• Association 'Drehscheibe Kind'^{German text}
  Non-profit, independent childcare facility that supports and relieves families, single parents, working parents and parents with disabled children.

Salzburg

• 'Akzente' Babysitter exchange^{German text}
  Childcare placement service of the Salzburg Youth Information (Salzburger Judendinfo).
• Bildungsdirektion Salzburg^{German text}
  Information about afternoon care at schools in Salzburg.
• Hilfswerk Salzburg^{German text}
  Offers and placement of various forms of childcare as well as training and employment of childminders
• TEZ – Center for childminders in Salzburg^{German text}
  Counselling and placement of childcare places, training and employment of childminders.

Styria

• 'Kinderdrehscheibe'^{German text}
  Information and counselling centre for parents seeking childcare options in Styria.
• Bildungsdirektion Styria^{German text}
  Information on afternoon care at schools in Styria.
• Association 'Tagesmütter Steiermark'^{German text}
  Safeguarding and promoting the interests of parents and children, training and further education of childminders/day-fathers.

Tyrol

• Bildungsdirektion Tirol^{German text}
  Information on afternoon care at schools in Tyrol.
• Platform 'Kinderbetreuung Tirol' (Childcare Tyrol)^{German text}
  Overview of the range of private crèches, kindergartens, after-school care centres, child minders/day care providers as well as children's groups in Tyrol.
• Umbrella Association Self-organized Childcare Tyrol ('Dachverband Selbstorganisierte Kinderbetreuung Tirol')^{German text}
  Information and addresses of children's groups and playgroups throughout Tyrol.

Vorarlberg

• Office of the Federal Government of Vorarlberg^{German text}
  Information, counselling, support and funding for families, municipalities/towns, and private sponsors (companies, associations).
• Bildungsdirektion Vorarlberg^{German text}
  Information on after-school care at schools in Vorarlberg.

Vienna

• Counselling Centre for Migrants^{German text}
  Employment counselling centre for migrants: Information and mother-tongue counselling in various languages.
• Vienna Federal Boarding School AM HIMMELHOF (BIH)^{German text}
  State boarding school for girls and boys over the age of 10.
• Umbrella Association of Private Kindergartens and After-school Care Centers in Vienna ('Dachverband der Wiener Privatkindergärten und -horte')^{German text}
  Representation of the interests of the politically and confessionally independent kindergartens of Vienna.
• kigafinder.at^{German text}
  Kindergarten search for the whole of Vienna based on residential or work address.
• Childcare facilities in Vienna^{German text}
  Listing of childcare facilities in Vienna; advice and registration for municipal kindergartens.
• 'Kinderdrehscheibe' Vienna^{German text}
  Advice and referral to private and municipal childcare facilities (crèches, kindergartens, after-school care places, childminders, children's groups), women's and social counselling, training for childminders.
•  Grandma service of the Catholic Family Association of the Archdiocese of Vienna^{German text}
• Service points - Vienna Children's Day Care Centres^{German text}
  The service points of MA 10 provide information on municipal and private childcare facilities in Vienna.
• Bildungsdirektion Vienna^{German text}
  Information on afternoon care at schools in Vienna.
• The Children's House – International Montessori Kindergarten^{German text}
  English-speaking kindergarten for one to six-year-olds.
• Association of parent-managed children's groups Vienna^{German text}
  Communication and organisation centre for concerns of parent-managed children's groups.
• 'Bildung im Mittelpunkt GmbH' (BiM)^{German text}
  The Vienna Child and Youth Care offers, among other things, all-day primary schools, "open elementary schools", holiday care, learning and leisure clubs.
• School Guide Vienna^{German text}
  Information on after-school care and full-day schools for all types of schools.