Crèche

The „Uniwersyteckie Maluchy” [eng. “University Toddlers”] workplace crèche is an intimate facility intended for 15 children. The Crèche began its activity on 1 October 2013. It was established thanks to funding from the Human Capital Operational Programme. Until 31 December 2014 the Crèche was funded by the European Social Fund, then from 1 January 2015, funding was fully taken over by the University of Warsaw.

Crèche Rules and Regulations UW – a pdf document – will be opened in a new window

The UW Workplace Crèche has been entered in the Register of Crèches and Kid’s Clubs kept by the President of the City of Warsaw under number 116/Z/2013.

The Crèche’s concept of work is based on the “Quality Standards for the Care and Development of Children under 3 Crèche – will be opened in a new window”, developed by a team of experts and practitioners appointed by the Comenius Foundation for Child Development. Among the main concepts are:

creating a child-friendly place that ensures a safe and at the same time stimulating, environment for the child’s proper development;
creating positive experiences and a secure relationship with adults in the earliest period of a child’s life, which provide the foundations for their further development;
meeting the young child’s biological and emotional needs dependent on the way in which different everyday situations are organised;
ensuring the conditions promoting free play and providing opportunities for movement so that the young child develops well;
parents’ active participation in the life of the Crèche as the most important people in their child’s life.

The Crèche is open 12 months a year, Monday to Friday from 7:00 to 17:00, and provides nursing and childcare services for children aged between seven months and three years. All children are staying in one mixed-age group.

A child can stay in the Crèche for a maximum of 9 hours a day, and those hours are flexible to adjust to the parents’ needs.

The food is provided by a catering company. It consists of three meals a day: breakfast, a two-course lunch and an afternoon snack. There is also a possibility:

to choose meals depending on the child’s hours of stay in the Crèche;
of parents providing modified or breast milk in special containers.

In the facility there are three childcare workers who are supervised by the Crèche Director, which in addition to providing professional support, monitors the fulfilment of the quality standards for working with children, and is also responsible for compliance with health safety rules in accordance with the following guidelines:

Detailed health safety rules of the UW Crèche – a pdf document – will be opened in a new window

At the children’s disposal are:

playroom;
rest room;
dining room;
bathroom adapted to the needs of the youngest children.

Enrolment in the UW Crèche

Enrolment in the Crèche takes place throughout the entire calendar year. The order of applications will be decisive. Priority in admission to the Crèche is given to children on the waiting list.

Children of the UW employees and doctoral students are eligible for recruitment if at least one of the child’s parents is economically inactive and planning to return to the labour market. Persons returning to the labour market after a break due to childbirth or upbringing of the children are understood to be unemployed persons who are parents or legal guardians of a child up to the age of 3 or persons who are on maternity or parental leave and planning to return to the labour market.

In order to enrol a child in the Crèche, please fill out an application form and submit it to the Office for Personnel Social Benefits (Main Campus, Mały Dziedziniec, 2nd floor, room 26, between 10:00 and 15:00). The parent whose child is granted a place in the Crèche will be informed of this by telephone and e-mail.

The application form should be accompanied by a certificate from the parents’/legal guardians’ workplace or the Employment Office (in the case of an unemployed person) confirming that the person is not economically active; in the case of doctoral students, a certificate confirming their studies issued by a Doctoral School, indicating any breaks in their studies.

Documents available for download:

UW Crèche application form – a pdf document – will be opened in a new window

Fee amount:

fixed monthly fee – crèche fee for stays of up to 5 hours/day – PLN 550

fixed monthly fee – crèche fee for stays of up to 9 hours/day – PLN 700

board (breakfast, two-course dinner, afternoon snack) – PLN 21/day

enrolment fee (non-refundable one-off fee) – PLN 400

Fees should be paid by transfer to a bank account no.: 14 1160 2202 0000 0002 4373 4004

Contact:

Acting Director – Magdalena Owczarek
„Uniwersyteckie Maluchy” – Workplace Crèche of the University of Warsaw
14/16 Karowa Street, room 11
00-324 Warsaw (Śródmieście District)
e-mail: zlobek@uw.edu.pl
phone: 734 438 143

Applications for a place in the “Uniwersyteckie Maluchy” Workplace Crèche
Sylwia Krawczyk
Independent clerk
Office for Personnel Social Benefits
e-mail: Sylwia.Krawczyk@adm.uw.edu.pl
phone: (22) 55 20 825

The building in which the "Uniwersyteckie Maluchy" Crèche is located