Improving Lockdown Notifications for Childcare Centres - Implementing a Ward 14 Pilot - by Councillor Paula Fletcher, seconded by Councillor Alejandra Bravo

Good suggestions were made at the meeting and bringing together the relevant stakeholders to review current procedures and the development of improvements would allow the on the ground experience of local childcare operators to potentially inform a new city wide standard. Reason for Urgency: Childcare Operators are anxious about the lockdown and hold and secure procedures, and the meeting between them and Toronto Public Service happened after the Notice of Motion Deadline had passed so to allow this work to commence without losing momentum it needs to be approved at this meeting.

explore consistent methods that would allow Toronto Police Service to directly notify licensed childcare centres which are not located in schools of public safety threats in their vicinity and when that threat is no longer a danger; that would ensure childcare operators in schools have a procedure for notification outside of school hours, during the summer, or on professional development days; and b. determine the best way to evaluate and implement these protocols on a trial basis in Ward 14 in cooperation with 55 Division of Toronto Police Service and evaluate the potential for implementing these new protocols across the City.