Building upgrades and new facilities are important, always needed and well appreciated by parents. Council is especially pleased to see $21.5 million allocated to support children with complex needs and challenging behaviours.

Council fully supports the findings of last year’s Expert Panel on Students with Complex Needs and Challenging Behaviour and believes all 50 recommendations of their report (titled Schools for All) must be fully implemented.

“Responding properly to the Schools for All report is a large undertaking,” said Viv Pearce, Council Vice President. “It is great to see that substantial funding has been allocated to match the task.”

“Parents and schools will be relieved to have extra specialists, such as psychologists, available to help.”

“Progress on implementing the recommendations has been slow to date,” she said. “We hope that this additional funding and staffing will move along the reform and cultural change which is needed.”

Released June 7, 2016