Providing Safe, Healthy Learning and Working Conditions
What’s This About?
All students, teachers, and education workers, from junior kindergarten to post-secondary, need safe, healthy, well-maintained environments in which to learn and work. Investments in well-maintained physical spaces and resources will protect and improve the physical and mental health of staff and students in Ontario's publicly-funded education system and will result directly in jobs for Ontario workers. Additionally, students and staff want a learning environment that is free from violence. We need a culturally responsive, proactive violence prevention plan that includes training and the funding.
How do we address these issues?
Creating Safer, Healthier and Accessible Schools
Fix the $16.3-billion repair backlog for Ontario public schools.
A comprehensive review to establish stable funding for school infrastructure, and increased board employed staff necessary to address and prevent further disrepair in Ontario's schools.
Funding to meet the 2025 Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) deadline.
Addressing Violence in the Learning and Working Environment
Establish an Education Sector Regulation within the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Increase the number of qualified and trained adults in our schools. Professional student services personnel, secretaries, custodians, educational assistants, early childhood educators and teachers all provide a high level of care for students.
Provide mandatory enhanced training to prevent, appropriately respond to and report incidents of violence in schools.
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