COMPLIANCE DETERMINATION Circling Star – Recommendation 2 1.0

The review and strategy should provide disciplinary alternatives that are: evidence-based, in line with the best interests of the child, and respect the right of children and youth to education. [...] 2021 • The collection of data relating to the use of out-of-school suspensions and expulsions will be part of the policy directive currently in development to understand the use of out-of- school suspensions and expulsions. [...] • Since the release of the Better Education Starts Today strategy, the focus of addressing this recommendation has shifted to being accounted for in priority action 3.2 of the strategy, which states, “Review and update Manitoba’s Provincial Code of Conduct: Appropriate Interventions and Disciplinary Consequences (2017) and develop a policy on the use of exclusionary practices (i.e., seclusion, sus. [...] • Manitoba schools are intended to use the policy directive in conjunction with the Safe and Caring Schools guiding document and the Manitoba Provincial Code of Conduct, to create positive, healthy, and safe schools where problems are identified and solved early, therefore preventing the need for managing difficulties through suspension and expulsion (as schools utilize these documents in a fulsom. [...] Intent 3: The review and strategy should provide disciplinary alternatives that are: evidence-based, in line with the best interests of the child, and respect the right of children and youth to education.