Apply for child care
Ottawa Child Care Registry and Waitlist, how to register...
Get help with your child care costs
childcare subsidies, how to apply, online application, documentation checklist, contribution calculator...
Information for families
licensed child care, informal (unlicensed) care, school age care, find the right child care, City-operated child care…
Information for child care service providers
funding and applications, French language designation…
EarlyON
services and resources, activities, professional advise, family services…
Indigenous-led child care
find Indigenous licensed child care (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit), Indigenous licensed Aboriginal Head Start, Indigenous EarlyON, Indigenous Early Years Circle...
New national child care system
more affordable child care, funding
Contact us
For more information about Children's Services in the City of Ottawa, please contact us by:
- Email at childrensservices@ottawa.ca or
- Phone at 3-1-1 (select language and option "4" daycare) Monday to Friday between 8:30am and 4:30pm