Childcare while job hunting, what worked? - 10 weeks in

My hours will change when I find a job and childcare is my biggest worry. I looked into subsidies but the forms are long. What worked for you?

Libraries and community centres run free activities that gave me a couple of hours.

Thanks for writing this out. I went through something close to it last year, and it settled down once I kept a simple log of every call and form.