Enhanced Police Record Check

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  1. Enhanced Police Record Check Requirements – Emails Starting March 2

The province has introduced enhanced police record check requirements for Ontario school boards, including new timelines for individuals whose most recent check was collected before September 1, 2021.

Employees, volunteers, service providers, and students on placements must provide a new police record check every five years, or following a criminal charge or conviction. Most employees who work in schools will require a Vulnerable Sector Check. The Police Record Check Office will begin emailing staff on March 2 if a new police record check is needed.

Emails to staff who require a new check will indicate the deadline and the type of check required. For more information, visit the Police Record Check page on tdsbWEB or email [email protected].

What’s Changing

  • Police record checks are limited to two prescribed types:
    • Criminal Record and Judicial Matters Check (CRJMC)
    • Vulnerable Sector Check (VSC)
  • All employees, volunteers, service providers, and students on educational placements must provide a new police record check every five years.
  • Individuals who are charged or convicted of a criminal offence must provide an updated check.
  • New timelines apply to:
    • new employees, volunteers, and service providers
    • existing staff based on their last police record check
    • individuals without a previous check on file

Timeline

The Police Record Check Office will begin requesting updated police record checks from current employees and other individuals by March 2, 2026. Staff who require a new check will receive an email indicating both the deadline and the type of check requirEmployees, service providers, volunteers, and students on an educational placement are expected to pay for their police record checks.ed.

 

School boards can implement measures that allow employees to continue working while they are waiting for their police record check to be processed.

In circumstances where employees have a positive criminal record, TDSB will apply the Interim Measures Procedure (PR743) during the investigation. Each circumstance will be reviewed on a case-by-case and position-by-position basis.