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# Working as a childcare worker in Iceland

Childcare worker is a regulated profession in Iceland. Foreign qualifications go through: For a preschool-teacher post, obtain the national teacher licence under Act No. 95/2019; the Preschool Act separately permits non-skilled personnel to participate where skilled preschool teachers are unavailable.

- Regulation: Regulated
- Recognition route: For a preschool-teacher post, obtain the national teacher licence under Act No. 95/2019; the Preschool Act separately permits non-skilled personnel to participate where skilled preschool teachers are unavailable.
- Recognition authority: Ministry of Education and Children for the preschool-teacher licence; the checked sources identify no profession-wide licensing authority for every childcare-worker position.

## Sources

Preschool Act No. 90/2008, Article 6. — https://www.government.is/media/menntamalaraduneyti-media/media/MRN-pdf_Annad/Preschool_Act.pdf

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### APA

ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Childcare worker in Iceland: recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version a77b2cd298b22e281e6624bb62d8e2e4]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/childcare-worker/iceland/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

### BibTeX

```bibtex
@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_childcare-worker-in-iceland-recognition_7998e8191bba,
  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Childcare worker in Iceland: recognition},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {a77b2cd298b22e281e6624bb62d8e2e4},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/childcare-worker/iceland/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}
```

### Markdown

[Childcare worker in Iceland: recognition](https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/childcare-worker/iceland/) — ImmigrationDB; ImmigrationDB; version a77b2cd298b22e281e6624bb62d8e2e4; retrieved 2026-10-16; built 2026-10-16.

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- Canonical URL: https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/childcare-worker/iceland/
- Title: Childcare worker in Iceland: recognition
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- Publisher: ImmigrationDB
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- Version: `a77b2cd298b22e281e6624bb62d8e2e4`
- Retrieved: 2026-10-16
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- Compilation license: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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