The "Sockis" daycare center offers early childhood education for children aged 1-5 and is conveniently located near good public transport connections.
Our facilities house the following groups:
Knytten (0-3 years)
Hattifnattarna (0-3 years)
Toft (0-3 years)
Skogsungarna (1-5 years) - located on the second floor
Mumintrollen and Homsorna (3-5 years).
At Sockis, we collaborate across group boundaries and use our spaces flexibly. We strive to offer a safe and inclusive learning environment where every child feels important, welcome, and involved in their daily life.
Daycare center Sockenstugan forms a joint early childhood education unit together with daycare centers Lasse-Maija and Malmgård, as well as the Malmgård preschool. The unit director is Linnea Uggeldahl (09 31039080, linnea.uggeldahl@hel.fi) and the assistant director is Linda Mattsson-Autio (09 310 26787, linda.mattsson-autio@hel.fi).
For questions regarding applications to the daycare center, please contact the service guidance unit at 09 31080488. Please call on Tuesdays between 9:00 and 12:00, which is the designated phone time for the service advisor for Swedish-language early childhood education. This number also handles general inquiries about early childhood education applications in Finnish (Mon-Wed and Fri 9:00-12:00; Thu 9:00-11:00). You can also email the service guidance unit at varepalveluohjaus@hel.fi.
Contact information
Manager of daycare centre
Linnea Uggeldahl
+358 9 310 39080
linnea.uggeldahl@hel.fi
Deputy manager of the daycare centre
Linda Mattsson-Autio
+358 9 310 26787
linda.mattsson-autio@hel.fi
1-2-year-olds
Hattifnattarna
1-2-year-olds
Knytten
1-2-year-olds
Toft
+358 50 402 5888
pk.sockenstugan@hel.fi
3-5-year-olds
Homsorna
3-5-year-olds
Mumintroll
Group of different ages
Skogsungarna
Location
The route to the main entrance
- The pick-up and drop-off area is located in the vicinity of the entrance.
- The route to the entrance is smooth and sufficiently wide and illuminated.
- The passage has 2 consecutive steps.
The main entrance
- The entrance stands out clearly and is illuminated.
- In connection with the entrance, there are 2 consecutive steps.
- The doors connected to the entrance stand out clearly. Outside the door there is sufficient room for moving e.g. with a wheelchair. The door opens easily manually.
- The entrance has thresholds over 2 cm high.
- The foyer is cramped.
In the facility
- The customer service point has three floors.
- For moving around, there is a lift, which can hold a wheelchair that is difficult to perceive, with little room in front of it; the door opens automatically. The floor numbers in the lift cannot be felt with fingers. (The minimum dimensions for an accessible lift are width 1.1 m and depth 1.4 m.)
- The facility has thresholds over 2 cm high.
- The indoor walkways have at least 4 turning steps, with handrails on one side.
- The doors in the facility are hard to perceive.
- The facility has an accessible toilet on floor 0.