Bill 17 explained in plain English
Abuse Prevention Week Act, 2022
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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The Abuse Prevention Week Act, 2022, proclaims Abuse Prevention Week, establishes an advisory committee to develop an abuse prevention framework, and requires its implementation in school curricula.
This Ontario bill, the Abuse Prevention Week Act, 2022, establishes Abuse Prevention Week and creates an Abuse Prevention Framework Advisory Committee. Abuse Prevention Week will be the week starting on the first Sunday of October each year. The committee will advise the Minister of Education on an abuse prevention framework, including training for educators, curriculum changes, and community collaboration. The Minister of Education must then issue curriculum guidelines based on these recommendations, and school boards must provide instruction on abuse prevention during Abuse Prevention Week.
- Proclaims the week beginning on the first Sunday in October as Abuse Prevention Week.
- Establishes an Abuse Prevention Framework Advisory Committee.
- Requires the Abuse Prevention Framework Advisory Committee to make recommendations to the Minister of Education on an abuse prevention framework, including training for educators, curriculum changes, and community partnerships.
- Requires the Minister of Education to issue curriculum guidelines for abuse prevention based on the committee's recommendations.
- Requires school boards to provide instruction on abuse prevention during Abuse Prevention Week, based on the issued curriculum guidelines.
- States that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The Minister of Education
- Educators
- Elementary and secondary school students
- School boards
- Members of the Abuse Prevention Framework Advisory Committee
- Community partners involved in abuse prevention
- The Minister of Education has the obligation to establish the Abuse Prevention Framework Advisory Committee, appoint its members, and determine its terms of reference.
- The Abuse Prevention Framework Advisory Committee has the mandate to develop recommendations for an abuse prevention framework.
- The Committee is required to report its recommendations to the Legislative Assembly within six months of its establishment.
- The Minister of Education is required to issue curriculum guidelines respecting abuse prevention based on the committee's recommendations.
- School boards are required to provide instruction in elementary and secondary schools on abuse prevention during Abuse Prevention Week, using the issued curriculum guidelines.
- The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
- Abuse Prevention Week is proclaimed as the week beginning on the first Sunday in October each year.
- The Abuse Prevention Framework Advisory Committee must report its recommendations to the Legislative Assembly on or before the day that is six months after the Committee is established.
- The specific composition and expertise of the members of the Abuse Prevention Framework Advisory Committee are not detailed beyond being 'experts on abuse prevention and other stakeholders in the education sector'.
- The exact content or specific details of the curriculum guidelines are not provided in the bill, as they are to be developed by the committee and issued by the Minister.
- The bill does not specify the exact timing of the Minister's issuance of curriculum guidelines relative to the committee's report, other than that the guidelines should be in accordance with the committee's recommendations.
School boards will be required to provide instruction on abuse prevention during Abuse Prevention Week, using curriculum guidelines developed under this Act.
Source: Section 3(2)
The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
Source: Section 4
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