University of Guelph Child Care and Learning Centre

This place is the best! Best care for your kiddies, best staff and we'll run.

If your kids are here, you're lucky parents!

Looks can be deceptive; much like some of the decision-makers at CCLC. As some of the other reviewers have mentioned, this used to be a good daycare, but no longer lives up to the reputation it was once afforded. My child had been on the waitlist there since birth, mostly because his sibling attended many years earlier. However, after almost two years waiting, and numerous emails and phone calls, there were apparently still 50+ people ahead of us. Staff members have been completely dishonest and under-handed about the wait list, and initial assurances that there would be space. They fudge the numbers and select from the list at their own discretion and preference, rather than due process and fairness. There is zero accountability, even to the Ministry, because they vouch for each other to make the story work for their own self-serving agenda. From our perspective, it’s clearly just a business with no soul; and is devoid of compassion or kindness to children, or to its extended community. The upside to our unfortunate experience is that their indiscretions have ultimately proven beneficial for us. If these people hadn’t been so dishonest and deceitful, we wouldn’t have sought out or found the best daycare in Guelph. We are now so relieved we didn’t get a spot on that ridiculous CCLC wait list. The takeaway from our experience is that once we stop resisting what is supposed to happen instead of what we think should happen, we find ourselves on the right path, and a much better path. We are so grateful our precious little one belongs to a daycare community that genuinely cares about children, and is based on a foundation of kindness, love, peace, and joy; a foundation that the university corporation and its directors would do well to learn from. If given an opportunity now, they couldn’t pay me to put my child in the hands of such self-serving and hypocritical human beings. Finding quality early years childcare is crucial, swerve CCLC and its fake appearances at all costs.

Was on a waiting list forever. They obviously have a very desirable program so I kept contacting them even as my child was at another care center and wanted to enrol them here as it was much closer as well. Nobody responded to me in two years as to where my son was on their “list”. I finally got ahold of someone who said they only accept applications from people employed or going to the university, even though they accept anyones application. Since they also accept subsidies from Wellington County I suspect what they are doing is illegal and that instead of wait lists they simply pick and choose who they want. They should be investigated.