Where the facts come from and how they are dated

How the facts are collected

We read each provider’s website and keep what it writes itself about children: the ages it takes, its weekly timetable, its prices with the period they pay for, its languages, its trial classes and whether a parent has to stay.

The address, the point on the map and the opening hours may come from the provider’s Google Maps listing. A club’s membership of a sports federation may come from the list of members that the federation itself publishes.

For each fact we keep the page’s address, the day we read it and a short quotation in the page’s own language. We never take facts from news articles, guides and portals, booking platforms, social media or reviews.

What the source labels mean

Every source carries one of three labels, written the same way on the providers’ pages: ‘provider’s website’ (its own page), ‘Google listing’ (its page on Google Maps) and ‘federation list’ (a sports federation’s list of member clubs).

Beside every fact on a provider’s page you will see its source label and the day we read it, so you can decide for yourself where it came from and how recent it is.

When a fact is missing

When none of the pages we read gives a fact, the provider’s page says it is not published and the table shows a dash. This describes the pages we found, not the provider.

We do not fill gaps with guesses. A school year, such as the preparatory class, never becomes an age. A price keeps the period the provider names; the one sum we do ourselves is the price per class marked ≈, where we spread a course or class-pass price over its classes.

Group times are not opening hours

Times go into two separate columns. Groups are the days and hours of a class, a training session, an afternoon at an afterschool or a day at camp, as the provider states them. Opening hours tell you when the venue is open, and they often come from its Google listing.

A venue may be open with no group for the age you are looking for. That is why a row with opening hours alone goes below the line, under a heading that gives the reason.

The after-school pages look at weekdays from 13:00 to 18:00: the hours between the end of the school day for the youngest pupils and the end of a working day. A class counts if one of its groups starts within that span, and an afterschool if its opening hours cover all of it.

What we do not assess

We do not rate or rank providers, teachers, coaches or programmes.
We do not visit providers; all we write has been published by them or by others.
We do not judge how well children are taught, trained or cared for.
We do not know whether a group still has room; only the provider can tell you.
Prices stay as published, with their period and date, and the provider has not confirmed them.

When a provider asks for a change

If you run a provider on the list and find something wrong, missing or out of date, write to us through the form and add a link to your page that shows the right fact.

When the provider’s own pages confirm the correction, it goes into the next update and is entered in the change journal. When a provider closes, its page stays with a note saying so, and it disappears from every list.

You can also ask for your provider to be taken off: choose ‘Remove a provider’ in the form and leave a contact that shows you represent it. Within a month we remove the provider, its page and its records in the data files.

When the list is updated

Each provider’s sources are read again at most 6 months after the last reading. A price for a period that has ended stays on the provider’s page with its period, but the filters and the line of figures no longer count it.

Who pays

No provider pays to be listed, and no payment changes what a row says or where it stands.

A provider’s page may carry a link to Zartrace, a service linked to the list, and it says so openly. Clicks on the contact buttons are counted as totals only, with no personal data.

Open data

Download the whole list as JSON, one record per provider, or as CSV, one line per programme. Both files carry every source, label and date, and state their licence.

Areas, distances and the map

The six sectors are split into the neighbourhoods parents name, paired where two are too close to stand alone: Dorobanți - Floreasca, Aviației - Herăstrău, Tei - Pipera, Centrul Vechi - Unirii, Tineretului - Văcărești and others, each inside one sector. The Ilfov towns the city runs into, Voluntari with the northern side of Pipera, Otopeni, Chiajna, Bragadiru and Popești-Leordeni, are areas of their own. Every address belongs to the area whose boundary holds it.

Distances run in a straight line from the point you choose to the provider’s nearest address, rounded to half a kilometre. We ask for your location only when you press the button, and it never leaves your browser.