Child poverty is a widespread phenomenon that affects all aspects of a child's life. A large body of research confirms that poverty in early childhood influences future life chances and can adversely affect physical and mental health, cognitive development, emotional stability, and brings huge costs for both, the state, the individual and his environment. In Croatia, the poverty risk rate of children up to 6 years in 2013 amounted to 19.3%. Cash transfers and services play an important role in the structure of income and poverty reduction for preschool children, but for poor children most of these services are spatially and financially inaccessible. In recent years, there is a spreading sector of services for children in Croatia, primarily in the area of pre-school education, but there are still large disparities in the availability of residential care facilities for preschool children throughout the Republic of Croatian. To poverty preschool children mitigated and prevented is necessary multidisciplinary approach to society as a whole, or the activities of various stakeholders at different levels of society and regions. Some of the measures of prevention of poverty preschool children have access to the labor market for parents, sensitization of professional public about the problem of poverty and its consequences, the increase of benefits for children and families, ensuring adequate housing conditions and local infrastructure as well as the development of quality and available pre-school childcare services.