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Care leave: staying home with a sick child or relative
Care leave: staying home with a sick child or relative: the care certificate is a separate instrument from your own sick note and nobody explains it: how…
This launch guide maps the topic, the source base and the practical questions. Check the linked official authority before acting on a rule, deadline, price or safety requirement.
What this guide covers
The care certificate is a separate instrument from your own sick note and nobody explains it: how many days per child per year, the age ceiling, which parent may take them and whether they can be split, a quarantined kindergarten, staying in hospital with a child, caring for an adult relative, the rate it pays, and what to do when the days run out mid-illness. One focus is "Both parents want to split the care days: how it is done in each country". Parents search this the morning it happens, in a hurry.
How to use it
Use Care leave: staying home with a sick child or relative as a map of the process: identify the situation, check which country or authority owns the rule, and confirm the current version before a deadline or application.
The page keeps the main question, its evidence base and its limits together in one canonical place. That makes it useful as a quick orientation and avoids splitting a broad subject into shallow pages before each narrower answer has enough verified material of its own.
Search vocabulary in four languages
Terminology changes across borders. These are example phrases people use for the same subject in Estonian, Finnish, Russian and English; they are included as a practical vocabulary aid, not as hidden keywords.
| Language | Example phrase |
|---|---|
| Estonian | hooldusleht mitu päeva aastas |
| Finnish | tilapäinen hoitovapaa palkallinen |
| Russian | больничный по уходу за ребёнком Эстония сколько дней |
| English | care leave for a sick child Finland how many days |
Evidence and provenance
The evidence map below records the primary, official or openly licensed material chosen for this guide. It is deliberately visible so a reader can tell the difference between a rule published by an authority, a measured dataset and an editorial explanation.
Source: Riigi Teataja + Tervisekassa; Finlex (Työsopimuslaki 4 luku, Sairausvakuutuslaki) + Kela; VSAA; Sodra. · checked 2026-09-09
Source names are preserved even where an authority changes its web address. No figure is added to this launch page unless it is already present in the cited source description or can be computed from a named dataset.
Scope and boundaries
sickleave (#41) is your own illness; /benefits does the arithmetic.
Connected TempoLife guides
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Why it belongs on TempoLife
/fever (when a child should stay home at all).
Frequently asked questions
What does this guide cover?
The care certificate is a separate instrument from your own sick note and nobody explains it: how many days per child per year, the age ceiling, which parent may take them and whether they can be split, a quarantined kindergarten, staying in hospital with a child, caring for an adult relative, the rate it pays, and what to do when the days run out mid-illness. One focus is "Both parents want to split the care days: how it is done in each country". Parents search this the morning it happens, in a hurry.
What evidence does it use?
Riigi Teataja + Tervisekassa; Finlex (Työsopimuslaki 4 luku, Sairausvakuutuslaki) + Kela; VSAA; Sodra.
Where does this guide stop?
sickleave (#41) is your own illness; /benefits does the arithmetic.
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