Day care

Full-day care can last from 6 to 10 hours, and half-day care from 4 to 6 hours a day

Day care is a social service encompassing full-day or half-day care:
  • Full-day care can last from 6 to 10 hours a day
  • Half-day care can last from 4 to 6 hours a day. 
Day care is a service applied to provide organised activities throughout the day, with expert and other type of assistance and support, in order to fulfil basic and additional everyday needs of beneficiaries which cannot be fulfilled within the family.
Day care services are granted to children with developmental disabilities, children without adequate parental care, children with behavioural issues, persons declared temporarily unfit for employment pursuant to the act regulating professional rehabilitation and employment of persons with disabilities, as well as to persons with disabilities, elderly persons, seriously ill persons, and homeless persons who are not staying at a shelter.
Day care services are provided in the form of half-day care, with a duration of four to six hours a day, or as a full-day care, with a duration of six to ten hours a day.
Day care may be granted one day a week, several days in a week or during all working days in a week.

Day care service providers

Day care services are provided by social welfare homes, associations, religious communities and other legal persons, natural persons who carry out social welfare activities as their profession or as a trade.
A beneficiary who has been granted day care services cannot be granted accommodation and organised housing services nor can they be granted psychosocial support services.
Exceptionally, beneficiaries who have been granted day care services up to twice a week may also be granted psychosocial support services.

Granting day centre stay services

The procedure for recognition of the right to a residence service is carried out by the regional offices of the Croatian Social Work Institute, competent according to the residence of the beneficiary.

The addresses and telephone numbers of the regional offices can be found on the website of the Croatian Institute for Social work.