Welcome to the Wellington-Guelph Child Care Waitlist!

A centralized application and waitlist for all families looking for licensed child care and authorized recreation in Wellington County and Guelph.

Complete your application easily by creating your account, with the ability to apply to multiple child care programs all at once.

Apply for Child Care Programs, Subsidy, and More!

About Licensed Child Care

About licensed child care.

New

On April 17, 2024 this centralized application and waitlist was launched for the County of Wellington and Guelph.

CWELCC

Canada-Ontario Early Years and Child Care Agreement

Supports for Children with Special Needs

Supporting Children with Special Needs

Child Care Fee Subsidy

Children's Early Years

About Licensed Child Care

Licensed child care programmes must meet and maintain provincial standards set out in the Child Care and Early Years Act.

These standards provide for the health, safety and developmental needs of children. Child care programmes include licensed child care centres, licensed home child care, and licensed before and after school programmes.

Authorized recreational programmes are not licensed by the Ministry of Education but are defined under the Child Care and Early Years Act, 2014 and may provide another option for before or after school, and summer care.

For more information on licensed child care, please visit the Ministry of Education’s website at https://www.ontario.ca/page/types-child-care

New

On April 17, 2024 this centralized application and waitlist was launched for the County of Wellington and Guelph.

Individual programme waitlists in effect on March 31, 2024 were uploaded to this system.

It is important to update your profile to make sure your and your child’s information is accurate. If you do not see a child care programme listed for your child that you were on the waitlist for, please add it now.

Also, contact the programme to confirm if you were on their waitlist previously and if so, to discuss adjusting the application date to match the original date they have on record.

CWELCC System

Child care programmes that are enrolled in the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) System are increasing the affordability of licensed child care for families with children up to age 6.

Rates are currently reduced to 50% of 2020 fees. When you search for child programmes on this site, you will be able see if the programme is enrolled in CWELCC.

For more information about the CWELCC System, please visit the Ministry of Education’s website at https://www.ontario.ca/page/canada-ontario-early-years-and-child-care-agreement.

Families can apply for Child Care Fee Subsidy even if child care fees are already lower through CWELCC.

Supporting Children with Special Needs

The Children's Early Years Division partners with community service agencies to support licensed child care programmes to care for all children.

This means that children with special needs are able to fully participate in child care programmes in Wellington-Guelph. Through our Enhanced Support System, we work with a team

of community service agencies that provide support to child care staff and the children and families enrolled in their programmes.

The Enhanced Support System is a partnership of:

County of Wellington Children's Early Years Division
Kidsability Centre for Development
Canadian Mental Health Association Waterloo Wellington

There is no cost to families to receive enhanced supports for their child or children.

Child Care Fee Subsidy

Child Care Fee Subsidy can help families pay for licensed child care and approved camps and recreation programmes for children up to age 13.

To be eligible for Child Care Fee Subsidy you must have a Need for Care and be eligible based on your family income.

Need for Care includes:

working (full time, part time, self-employed)
attending school or a training programme
you have a medical or family need that can be helped by your child attending child care
you have a child with a disability or special need and child care is recommended by the agencies working with your child

To find out if you are eligible for Child Care Fee Subsidy, visit https://www.wellington.ca/en/social-services/cey-feesubsidy.aspx

or call 519.837.3620 x3090

Families can apply for Child Care Fee Subsidy even if child care fees are already lower through CWELCC.

Children's Early Years

Children’s Early Years is a division of the County of Wellington’s Social Services department.

The County is the Service System Manager designated by the Ministry of Education to plan and manage the early years system in Wellington-Guelph. The early years system includes licensed child care, and EarlyON Child and Family Centres.

Visit our website at Children's Early Years Division - Wellington County for more information.

Contact Information

129 Wyndham Street N.

Guelph ON

N1H 4E9

Hours of Operation

Mon – Fri 8:30AM–4:00PM

Programme Website:

www.wellington.ca/en/social-services/childrens-early-years-division.aspx

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Welcome to the Wellington-Guelph Child Care Waitlist!