House keeping

Child house keeping

Health and Medical Care Insurances

Most social services of health and medical care insurances provide nursery services for sick children. You can find information on their website and ask about it to your insurer adviser.

Health and Medical Care Insurances Listing:

http://www.inami.fgov.be/citizen/fr/insurers/contacts/index.htm (in French)

CPAS : Public Centres for Social Action

Some CPAS organise nursery services for sick children at home or work with a communal creche.

Nursery for sick children

Responsible: Ms. Marilyn Libersens

Val des Epinettes, 25

1150 Brussels

02/778 11 60 ou 61

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Communal Service of Saint-Gilles

Place Van Meenen 39

1060 Brussels

Contact: Ms. Martine Raeskinet

0498/42 33 71

For children going to communal creches of Saint-Gilles.

Public Centres for Social Action located in the region of Brussels-Capital

http://www.ocmw-info-cpas.be/index.php/home_fr (in French and Flemish)

Associations

Service for seriously ill children: Non-profit organisation « Prendre un enfant par la main »

Avenue Herbert Hoover, 122

1200 Brussels

02/734 95 49

Fax : 02/502 49 39

Ms. Charlotte Beeckmans

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

This non-profit making organisation provides free services to seriously ill children and their families, in particular:

•    Transfer from hospital to home;

•    Nursery services during parents’ absence;

•    Visits of children at the hospital.

Upon hospital’s requests, volunteers accompany, drive and entertain sick children as well as take them on holidays and entertaining events.

Home nursery – Non-profit making organisation

Hôtel de ville - Grand Place

1000 Brussels

02/279 50 60

0475/29 22 86

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The service provided by this non-profit making organisation consists of an emergency help which allow parents to go to work when their child, aged between 0 to 12 years-old, must stay home. Upon parents’ request and based on a medical certification, a trusted and qualified person come to the parents’ home so as to care for the sick child while they work.

Lump sum

20 € for 1 child

30€ for 2 children

This service is provided for at least 3 hours and at last 10 hours. It cannot exceed 3 consecutive days.

Provision of nursery services from 8h to 18h, from Monday to Friday, except on holidays.  

Support and home medical care: Non-profit making organisation « Les libellules »

If your child, aged between 3 months and less than 12 years-old, is sick and unable to be admitted at the nursery, by the childminder or at school, a qualified nursery nurse from this organisation can take care of him during your absence, based on a medical certificate.

The nursery nurses ensure an attentive and educational presence with your sick child (comfort, games, reading) and provide the child with the necessary care (feeding, taking temperatures, hygiene, naps, medication following the directions provided by the physician).

The staff is qualified as the nurses hold a degree on nursery nurse. They are constantly trained on subjects such as childhood and health.

Rates

The full or part-time rates are in accordance with net cumulated incomes.

The rates during ‘uncomfortable” hours may vary.

Provision of services

From 8h to 17h

Possible to extend this time. Rates vary when ‘uncomfortable” hours are part of the time-table.

Information

02/647 03 66 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it '; document.write( '' ); document.write( addy_text40523 ); document.write( '<\/a>' ); //--> This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Support and home medical care in Brussels

Rue Malibran 53

1050 Brussels

02/648 22 12

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

www.fasd.be/Brussels

Central home care « Petits lous »

Rue Saint-Bernard 43

1030 Brussels

02/537 98 66

Home nursery services for sick children provided to parents from the 19 communes of the Region of Brussels-Capital. A medical certificate is to be presented and the service is to be prevented as earlier as possible. The home care is provided at least for 4 hours and at last for 9 hours, from 7h to 21h. The rates are calculated in accordance with the net incomes from the household and by adding the travelling expenses to the parents’ home. This care centre does not provide services for self-employed people and individuals working for the European Union institutions.

General Medicine Centres (Maisons Médicales)

The general medicine centre from Maelbeek provides nursery services to sick children. The residents from Ixelles and Etterbeek can benefit from it and it is ensured by nursery nurses.

Rue de l'Etang, 131

1040 Brussels

02/649 38 55