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Ottawa Public Health has suspended 900 elementary schools with the Ottawa Catholic School Board for missing immunization records.
The notices were issued Tuesday to children in 40 different schools, the health unit said. The suspensions take effect Wednesday and remain in force until the students’ immunization records are updated or a valid exemption is filed.
The suspensions come after public health sent 5,000 notice-of-suspension letters — 2,000 of them to the Catholic Board — earlier this school year for failing to comply with the immunization regulations. The students can remain suspended for up to 20 days under Ontario’s Immunization of School Pupils Act.
Schools will make sure students are given work and opportunity to catch up with their classmates without academic penalty during their suspensions, said Catholic board spokeswoman Mardi de Kemp.
The suspensions follow a campaign by Ottawa Public Health begun last summer to bring its immunization records up to date after having stopped the routine monitoring of the records in 2013. As recently as October, the records of 50,000 students in Ottawa remained incomplete, despite an extensive phone and letter campaign.
The 3,000 remaining notices of suspension went to students in the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and the French-language public board, Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario. Those students face suspension in January and February.
Parents can update records by contacting Ottawa Public Health by phone at 613-580-6744 (toll free at 1-866-426-8885), or by submitting immunization information through an online form on the Ottawa Public Health website http://ottawa.ca/en/residents/public-health
By law, students in Ontario need to be immunized against tetanus, diphtheria, polio, mumps, measles, rubella, meningococcal disease, pertussis (whooping cough) and, for children born in 2010 or later, varicella (chicken pox).
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The notices were issued Tuesday to children in 40 different schools, the health unit said. The suspensions take effect Wednesday and remain in force until the students’ immunization records are updated or a valid exemption is filed.
The suspensions come after public health sent 5,000 notice-of-suspension letters — 2,000 of them to the Catholic Board — earlier this school year for failing to comply with the immunization regulations. The students can remain suspended for up to 20 days under Ontario’s Immunization of School Pupils Act.
Schools will make sure students are given work and opportunity to catch up with their classmates without academic penalty during their suspensions, said Catholic board spokeswoman Mardi de Kemp.
The suspensions follow a campaign by Ottawa Public Health begun last summer to bring its immunization records up to date after having stopped the routine monitoring of the records in 2013. As recently as October, the records of 50,000 students in Ottawa remained incomplete, despite an extensive phone and letter campaign.
The 3,000 remaining notices of suspension went to students in the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and the French-language public board, Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario. Those students face suspension in January and February.
Parents can update records by contacting Ottawa Public Health by phone at 613-580-6744 (toll free at 1-866-426-8885), or by submitting immunization information through an online form on the Ottawa Public Health website http://ottawa.ca/en/residents/public-health
By law, students in Ontario need to be immunized against tetanus, diphtheria, polio, mumps, measles, rubella, meningococcal disease, pertussis (whooping cough) and, for children born in 2010 or later, varicella (chicken pox).
bcrawford@ottawacitizen.com
Twitter.com/getBAC
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