Sometimes such persons as the child’s grandparents or other close adults wish to be able to act electronically on behalf of the child alongside or instead of the child’s guardians.
If you want to act on behalf of a child, ask the child’s guardians to grant you a mandate as described in How guardians grant mandates independently to manage the affairs of a child.
A non-guardian can use a mandate to act on behalf of a minor if
Foster care guardians and co-guardians are also guardians, which means that they too have to validate the mandate.
The e-services that use Suomi.fi e-Authorizations describe in their own instructions whether non-guardians can act on behalf of a child.
If you have been granted a mandate to act on behalf of a child, read the instructions at How do I act on behalf of another party with a mandate?
However, there are situations in which you cannot act on behalf of a minor even if all guardians have granted you the required mandate. Read more at When is it not possible to act on behalf of a child?