A more useful family account
Save family and child details, open applications and subsidy requests from one dashboard, and use saved details to fill new forms.
Open your family accountRelease notes
CareQuay release archive
Public improvements grouped by month across 2026. We leave out internal changes and anything still marked coming soon.
Current release
v2026.10.26.1
Features that keep personal applications or family details require a free account. Fee, subsidy and move-date estimates are always labelled as estimates, not promises.
Latest
Family accounts, applications and live information
A major month for applying, tracking replies and seeing current information from centres and child care offices.
Shortlists and comparisons
Bookmark preferred centres, compare fees, openings, waiting times and fee support, and keep a private note for each option.
See your shortlistApplication tracking
Record deadlines, provider responses and follow-up dates, with a dated timeline for each centre application.
Track your applicationsDirect subsidy applications
Send a request on one short page, receive a reference by email and track city replies, confirmed amounts and follow-up dates.
Submit a subsidy requestCity-specific subsidy rules
Published local income cut-offs, maximum monthly support, family shares, processing times and application guidance now shape estimates.
Browse city subsidy rulesPer-child subsidy histories
Follow each child's fee-support journey from request to confirmed offer, including the amount and every dated update.
View subsidy historiesA complete centre application
Send family details, information for up to eight children and an optional subsidy request, with confirmations for both family and centre.
Find a centre to apply toLive fees and waiting-list positions
See current published fees, your place in a centre's CareQuay waiting list, movement so far and an estimated move date when enough history exists.
Open your waiting listsReal centre-reported information
Centre pages use live fees, vacancies and CareQuay waiting counts when staff publish them, while unreported capacity remains clearly labelled.
Search centre pagesAutomatic centre-update emails
Families connected to a centre can be emailed when its open spots, daily fees, waiting list or fee-support details change.
Personalised support guidance
Share your situation privately to receive a plain-language explanation of likely support and practical next steps. Your answers are not saved.
Get a family support planThe parent guide
A new guide explains subsidies, applications, waiting-list estimates and what to confirm when a centre offers a place.
Read the parent guideChildcare pages for Canadian cities
Browse licensed centres city by city, with clearer links between city results, centre records and nearby alternatives.
Browse childcare by cityScheduled new-program openings
New rooms and locations can publish an exact application-opening time, with an orderly queue during periods of high demand.
See new openingsCentre and city workspaces
Authorized staff can manage applications, subsidies, spaces, fees and waiting lists, with replies flowing back to families automatically.
Open the centre portalOntario subsidy estimates
Check likely eligibility and a 12-month estimate of provider credits and family payments, including partial months.
Estimate fee supportMonthly cost comparisons by city
The family account can compare typical full fees, estimated support and what your family may pay each month across cities in your province.
Estimate fee supportMore useful search ranking
Search considers the full set of matching centres and brings higher-demand results forward instead of ranking only an alphabetical slice.
Search for carePublic catalogue, maps and matching
CareQuay's first public experience brought Canadian licensed-childcare records into one searchable, mobile-friendly place.
Search licensed childcare
Filter and sort thousands of licensed Canadian childcare records gathered from provincial and municipal open data.
Search for careMap-backed results
Move between a scannable results list and a map, with each pin opening the corresponding centre record.
Explore the mapDetailed centre pages
Review contact details, programs, capacity, available fee information and the source and freshness of each published field.
Find a centreSmart Match
Set what matters most and receive explained matches using a two-sided matching method rather than a hidden recommendation score.
Try Smart MatchContact and application basics
Contact a centre or submit the essential parent and child information needed to begin an application.
Browse centre pagesClear data provenance
Centre records identify where published details came from and when they were updated, with missing capacity shown as not reported rather than zero.
Designed for phones and larger screens
Search, maps, centre records and forms adapt across mobile and desktop devices.