CEPP À La Découverte

Registration

Location

The daycare is located inside École À La Découverte (17610 104e rue NO, Edmonton, T5X 5X3).

Schedule

The centre is open Monday to Friday from 7am to 6pm.

Service Contract 2024/2025

2024/2025 Calendar

Meals and snacks

Parents must bring a lunch every day inside a lunchbox that includes an ice pack if necessary. The centre provides two healthy snacks per day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

Grants and Subsidies

The Affordability Grant

Allocated based on the child’s age and automatically deducted from the monthly fees (Reduction column) in the table of fees.

The amount of the Affordability Grant is decided by the government. This is offered based on the number of days registered and the payable fees. A child registered part-time therefore benefits from the part-time Affordability Grant while a child registered full-time benefits from the full-time Affordability Grant.

This is not based on the number of hours the child is in the program but based on the number of days per week, and therefore the payable fees. Please refer to the fees table below to know what is considered full- and part-time.

Additional Family Subsidy

Starting in February 2025, the Government of Alberta will abolish the Additional Family Subsidy for children registered in daycare (0 to 5 years old).

Going forward, only school-age children (registered in the out-of-school program) will be admissible for a family subsidy. Please visit the out-of-school programs page for more information.

Monthly Fees

Alberta is committed to making childcare services more affordable by reducing fees for parents.

As such, the Province finances more than 70% of childcare fees through the federal-provincial childcare agreement.

The fees mentioned below include the reduction from the government.

Daycare – Full days

REGISTRATION TYPE	SUBSIDIZED MONTHLY FEE (Portion payable by the parent )
Full time registration (Registered for 4 or 5 days/week)	$326.25
Part time registration (Registered for 2 or 3 days/week)	N/A
On-demand service* *The on-demand service is not subsidized by the government.	N/A
Justifiable additional fee* *The government authorizes services to add fees payable by parents for certain additional services offered.	12 to 18 months: $55 per day 19 to 35 months: $50 per day 3 to 5 years: $45 per day

Preschool – 9am to 12pm

Age group	Days/week	Monthly fees	Monthly reduction (Subsidies)	Monthly fees with subsidy applied
3-5 years	5*	$372	-$100	$272

General Fees

Registration fee (non-refundable)	$50
Deposit (Reimbursable when you withdraw from the program provided we receive 30 days’ notice according to our policy)	$200
NSF fee	$45 per infraction
Late payment fee	$45 per week
Parent arriving after opening hours – Lateness fee	$1 per minute per child

NSF fee

For each payment with insufficient funds, a penalty of $45 will be added to the family’s account and must be paid by the deadline provided.

Late payment fee

For each payment past the deadline, a fee of $45 per week will be added to the family’s account and must be paid by the deadline provided.

Parent arriving after opening hours – Lateness fee

In the case of parents who arrive late after opening hours, a fee of 1$ per minute late per child will be billed. The service manager will inform the FPFA. The FPFA will add the lateness fees on the following month’s invoice.

Admission criteria

Any parent who wishes to register their child in the CEPP daycare must fulfill at least one of the following criteria (according to Article 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms):

1. Their first language learned and still understood is French.
2. They received their primary education in French.
3. One of their children received or is receiving their primary or secondary education in French.

To see our admissions policy (in French only), please consult this page.

Rights of francophones in Alberta

To know more about the right to a francophone education in Alberta, please watch these two videos:

What is Article 23?

Who can register their child to a francophone school in Alberta?