Ontario enacting daycare safe arrival rules aimed at preventing deaths in hot cars
Everett Smith had a grin so infectious his daycare staff nicknamed him "Smiley." He loved apples. His prized possession was a yellow toy school bus.
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Everett Smith had a grin so infectious his daycare staff nicknamed him "Smiley." He loved apples. His prized possession was a yellow toy school bus.
Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada
Everett Smith was just three weeks shy of his second birthday when he died in late June 2022 in the back seat of a car in Bancroft, Ont., after a family emergency changed his family's morning routine and his mom didn't realize he hadn't been dropped off at his daycare when she headed into work.
As of Jan. 1, licensed home daycares and child-care centres will need to develop a policy setting out the steps they will take when a child doesn't arrive as expected.
Safe arrival systems have long been in place in schools.