In rural areas, due to the lack of educational services, young children – especially those growing up in families at risk of exclusion – have worse chances for development. Municipalities are not obliged to provide services for the youngest children, and the institutions covering young children only deal with a fragment of their lives, e.g. the health service watches over vaccinations and the education service watches over whether the child has pre-school preparation. No institution has a holistic view of the situation of families with young children.