Most of the Parents start their Daycare search with Google . No doubt, google is the beast that dominates searches accross the world for all sorts of searches people around the world can think of. The problem – Largerly data is unstructured that makes comparisions difficult. And for someone searching for Daycare, comparision of multiple daycare options is one of the biggest concern.
Here we bring you the top picks of Mobile Apps and Websites focused on finding the daycares in your neighbourhood.
Daycarebear aims to connect parents with best babysitters and daycare centers in Canada, enabling parents to search their directory of early child care providers, as well as to discuss various benefits and downsides of early daycare in their forums. Drawback of this website is that you only get a list of Daycares that chose to advertise their Vacancies. There are a number of other daycares that may have Vacacnies or accepting Waitlists that you will miss if you depend solely on this website.
Even though it currently only covers the Toronto area, CubbySpot app helps you in finding the right daycare or preschool for your child. The app helps you locate daycare centers with available and open applications and you can also manage all you daycare applications and waiting lists in one place.
Another Source of Canadian daycare listings and child care information. Can be used by Parents throughout Canada. It allows parents to not only browse daycare listings by city, but to find daycare providers quickly and easily in their local area by postal code, nearest intersection, or home or work address.
canadachildcaredirectory.com (Website)
Canada Child Care Directory provides parents and guardians with one of the most user friendly lists of Child Care Centres, Daycares, Family and Home Daycares, Preschools, Playschools, Nursery Schools, Montessori, Kindergartens and Before and After School Child Care on the Internet today.
Of course, we’d like to mention our own FREE app. Carewiser app helps you in finding the right daycare or preschool for your child based on your location. The app helps you locate daycare centers with available Vacancies as well as provide information in a consistent format for easy comparision of different daycare centers. Download it from the App Store or Google Play store now.
BC Childcare map (Website)
If you are a parent living in BC and searching for a daycare, you are in luck. Gov of BC recently launched a Childcare map that provides a list of all Licenced Daycares/Dayhomes in BC along with their Vacancy status on a map format. In some cases, the Vacancy information is outdated as Subsidized daycares in BC are required to report their Vacacny status every 2 months to the gov. However, you still get the list of all the Licensed daycares and some Vacacny leads.