Item - 2023.MM12.16
Tracking Status
- City Council adopted this item on November 8 and 9, 2023 without amendments.
MM12.16 - Improving Lockdown Notifications for Childcare Centres - Implementing a Ward 14 Pilot - by Councillor Paula Fletcher, seconded by Councillor Alejandra Bravo
- Decision Type:
- ACTION
- Status:
- Adopted
- Ward:
- 14 - Toronto - Danforth
City Council Decision
City Council on November 8 and 9, 2023, adopted the following:
1. City Council request the Deputy City Manager, Community and Social Services, in collaboration with the General Manager, Children’s Services, to convene a local working group in Toronto Danforth composed of local licenced childcare providers, Toronto Coalition for Better Child Care, Toronto Police Service 55 Division and representatives of the Toronto District School Board and the Toronto Catholic District School Boards to:
a. 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.
Background Information (City Council)
Motions (City Council)
That Councillor Paula Fletcher be permitted to add to the agenda of today's meeting an urgent Motion without Notice concerning:
Improving Lockdown Notifications for Childcare Centres - Implementing a Ward 14 Pilot
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.