Working as a childcare worker in Iceland
What official sources say about working as a childcare worker in Iceland: how foreign qualifications are recognised.
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.
Regulation and recognition
Childcare worker is a regulated profession in Iceland.
- 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.
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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 citation
@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 citation
[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.This citation identifies the ImmigrationDB compilation/page. Underlying source publishers and datasets retain their own terms; inspect the Sources section and cite those records separately. View the underlying source records.