Childcare news in Portugal
Latest news and stories about childcare in Portugal for expats and residents.
Latest news and stories about childcare in Portugal for expats and residents.
Is it an exaggeration to expect all schools to have more serious play areas, for children not to be forbidden from kicking a ball, and for them to be allowed to run or even get dirty?
Between 36 and 38 hours: this is the time that children from infancy to age 11 spend weekly in nurseries and schools in Portugal. What is behind these numbers?
Interventions are taking place in the parishes of Várzea, Macieira de Rates, Arcozelo, and Fonte Coberta.
The facility is closing due to financial difficulties and structural problems in the building
The A Flor nursery school, which has existed in Porto since 1970, provides care for infants (aged 4 to 12 months) and toddlers (aged 12 to 36 months).
The old app was discontinued in May and its features were integrated into the Social Security portal and app, a system that has been causing problems.
Private childcare centres are withdrawing from the government's 'Happy Nursery' scheme.
According to the municipality, a survey conducted in recent months allowed for the “precise identification of the shortage of places in the existing network of nurseries and crèches in the municipality.”
The measure will allow for 50% of the existing demand for nursery care from families in Guimarães to be met starting this September.
An order published this Wednesday, signed by ministers Fernando Alexandre and Rosário Palma Ramalho, has retroactive effects to September 2025.
The measure also covers association contracts with private, cooperative, and solidarity-based establishments.
Parliament rejected the creation of a public nursery network, but approved the potential creation of tax benefits for companies that wish to create them and the opening of spots under the PARES programme.
The PCP advocated for the creation of a universal public network, proposing the opening of 100,000 new places by 2029 and an additional 148,000 by 2033.
The defendant slapped a 4-year-old child in front of other children and a mother.
The school centres in the municipality of Nazaré will be open on Monday and Tuesday to accommodate the children of priority workers, namely those in the health sector, firefighters and security forces, the town council said.
The measure aims to support families who provide essential services to the community, namely in healthcare, the fire service and the security forces.
Former contestant on 'Who Wants to Date the Farmer' labelled the management incompetent.
Home News Portugal records peak birth rate Portugal records peak birth rate More than 87,700 babies were born in Portugal in 2025, the highest figure in the last decade, according to data from the ‘heel prick test’, which covers almost all births in the country.
The mother filed a complaint and the Public Prosecutor's Office is investigating. “It is serious negligence,” she says. An employee has already been suspended.
The Portuguese Public Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation after reports that a seven-month-old baby was allegedly assaulted at a nursery in Valongo. Authorities are probing the circumstances and possible criminal responsibility.
Large families in Portugal are a kind of silent resistance, where the daily logistical, financial and emotional efforts are immense. Column by Carmen Garcia.
