Safer Schools Action Plan fall update

The Government of Yukon has completed 13 of the 23 commitments in the Safer Schools Action Plan, representing significant progress to address policy gaps and enhance safety and oversight across all Yukon schools and government departments. All 23 commitments in the plan are on track to be completed by spring 2023.

Since the last update in July, key milestones reached include:

• completion of training and new requirements for all school-based staff on post-incident guidance and procedures for prevention, detection and reporting of serious incidents involving harm to students (action 10, 13 and 14); 
• implementation of new onboarding practices for all school-based and administrative staff (action 12);
• implementation of new policies and procedures for post-incident reporting requirements, including guidance for information sharing (actions 1, 6);
• finalization of a new government-wide communications policy that outlines roles and responsibilities of the public service for leading internal and external communications related to critical incidents and emergencies (action 22); and
• completion of actions 2, 3, 11, 18 and 20, which are focused on enhancing corporate guidance and leadership capacity across the organization to improve coordination and response management of critical incidents.

The Government of Yukon is continuing to undertake systemic changes to improve safety in all Yukon schools and all 23 commitments of the Safer Schools Action Plan are on track to implement by the spring of 2023.