The province’s education minister is proposing new safety protocols for daycares in the wake of the crash at a Richmond Hill child care centre that killed a one-and-a-half year-old boy and injured nine others.

In a statement posted to social media Thursday, the minister and Markham-Stouffville MPP Paul Calandra advised that child care operators should get rid of parking spaces that are “immediately adjacent to entryways, windows and exterior walls of classrooms or playgrounds at child care facilities,” though accessible spaces would be excluded from those changes.

The move comes after an SUV rammed through a large glass window First Roots Early Education Academy , near Yonge Street and Nottingham Drive, Wednesday afternoon. A toddler was rushed to hospital where he was pronounce

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