A Swedish court on Friday sentenced a male daycare (dagis) worker to six and a half years in prison for four cases of rape and 20 cases of sexual assault against toddlers aged one to three in his charge.
Couples in Sweden will no longer be entitled to a gender equality bonus for spliting parental leave, if the government's autumn budget gets passed next month.
Our northern Sweden correspondent, Paul Connolly, loves the Swedish "dagis" system - luckily so do his twin daughters, who have just started daycare in the Nordic nation.
Police were called in after Swedish nursery children, on a routine outing to the forest, found a mystery drugs stash which authorities said was worth a lot of money.
A nursery in Stockholm has been closed with immediate effect after inspectors discovered that children were being left alone in dirty diapers and that a child almost got run over in traffic.
Day care, (<i>dagis</i> in Swedish), can be a minefield of tears, tantrums, and transformations - and that's just the parents. The Local's <b>Patrick Reilly</b> draws on his own experience as a father to provide the top ten tips to surviving.
Two toddlers disappeared from a suburban Stockholm pre-school on Friday, and while they were soon found again it remains unclear how they managed to leave the playground unnoticed.
Sweden’s childcare allowance is proving ever-more popular in heavily immigrant neighbourhoods, resulting in the closure of some preschools and prompting fears about the measure’s unintended consequences.
