58. The regional student ombudsmen in charge of accountability must, not later than 31 October of each year, send a report of their activities for the preceding school year to the National Student Ombudsman and to each school service centre and private educational institution located in the region in which they are assigned. The report must separately list complaint referrals concerning acts of bullying or violence. It must also separately list reports and complaints concerning acts of sexual violence.
The report states, in particular,(1) the number of complaints received, examined, refused or abandoned since the last report, and the nature of and grounds for those complaints;
(2) the time taken for complaint examination;
(3) the nature of the recommendations and the action taken on those recommendations within the scope of the examination of a complaint; and
(4) the number and nature of the matters submitted to the regional student ombudsmen for an opinion.
The regional student ombudsmen send the reports received under section 57 to the National Student Ombudsman at the same time.
The Minister may, by regulation, prescribe any other information that regional student ombudsmen’s annual reports must contain as well as the form of the reports.
The regional student ombudsmen’s reports must bear their signature.
2022, c. 172022, c. 17, s. 58.