Smart match
Find the centre that fits your family best
Tell us what matters most to you, and we'll pair your family with a centre that has space and wants a family like yours. The match is fair: no family and centre would both rather be with each other instead.
Every centre gets two scores. Score you gave it — how well it matches what you care about. Score it gave you — how well your family fits what the centre looks for. Example: a $12/day non-profit 1 km away may score 91 out of 100 with you, while the centre scores your family 64 because it gives priority to families who have already waited six months.
My family details
These shape how centres see your family when they choose who to offer a space to.
Child age groups
Subsidy estimator
Estimate how much of the daily fee an income-tested child care fee subsidy could cover.
Line 23600 of your tax return.
- Subsidy covers
- $24.62/day
- $532.92/month
- You pay
- $15.38/day
- $333.08/month
How this is calculated
- 1. Income test. Household net income $60,000.00 minus the full-subsidy threshold $20,000.00 = $40,000.00 income counted.
- 2. Yearly family contribution. 10% of that amount = $4,000.00 per year.
- 3. Spread across enrolled days. 5 days/week × 52 weeks = 260 days of care a year, so the contribution is $15.38/day.
- 4. Against the fee. Fee $40.00/day − contribution $15.38/day = subsidy $24.62/day; you pay $15.38/day.
Subsidy covers about 62% of this fee.
Estimate only, based on an Ontario-style income test. Rules and thresholds vary by municipality and province — confirm with your local service manager before relying on these figures.
Centre requirements
Hard filters. Centres that fail these never enter the match.
Operator type
What matters most (0–5)
Slide up what you care about — it changes the order centres appear in.
Shorter travel distance from your postal code
Fee at or below your budget
Open spaces and a short waitlist
Higher published quality rating
Programme offered in your family's language
Early drop-off and later pick-up
Growth assumption
Rank centres against how many children we expect in this area over the next few years.
Your weights are used exactly as you set them.
Your best match
No centre with space said yes this time — they chose families that fit them better. Try widening your budget, adding age groups, or joining waitlists below.
Your centres, in your order
Centres are sorted by what you told us matters most. Each centre also scores your family on what it looks for — that decides who gets offered a space.