The Yukon education department should have immediately told Hidden Valley Elementary School parents about sexual abuse allegations against an educational assistant in 2019, but kept quiet until a news story forced it to acknowledge the situation a year-and-a-half later.
That was among the findings in a report released by the Yukon Ombudsman Thursday, which concluded the department’s delay in informing parents was unwarranted, unfair and a “communications failure.”
Entitled Left In The Dark, the report is the first of two from the ombudsman and follows separate reviews by the territory’s child and youth advocate and a Yukon-government-hired lawyer. All centre on why the government didn’t inform Hidden Valley parents after a
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