Families in Nova Scotia eventually won't have to worry about putting their children on dozens of daycare waitlists in hopes of securing child care.

Work is now underway to build an online child-care portal that will include a centralized daycare waitlist run by the province, the legislature's public accounts committee heard on Wednesday.

It’s a program operators and advocates have been pushing for for years.

“It'll allow families to register their child and see exactly what’s available to them in…