This page aggregates data related to inclusive education, including exclusion, partial days, legal costs, demographic information and so on.
These are records BCEdAccess and member advocates obtained:
Provincial absence rates by inclusive education designation
- What it shows: Absence fell for students without special education designations during 2022-2025, while absence related steady for students with designation.
- Source: Ministry of Education and Child Care
- Access:
- 2022-2024: ECC-2025-52461.zip
- 2024-2025: ECC-2026-052966.zip
- Why it matters: The single clearest provincial measure that the system is moving in the wrong direction for the students it is required to include.
Ministry legal services expenditure
- What it shows:
- Source and type: Ministry of Education and Child Care, FOI release [ECC-2026-60868], initially withheld under s.14 and disclosed in full after OIPC review [INV-F-26-01504]
- Access: 4/1/2023 To 3/31/2025 ECC-2026-60868 and INV-F-26-01504
- Why it matters: Public money spent defending the system is money not spent including students.
SPP human rights claim payments
- What it shows: The Schools Protection Program — the districts’ insurer — paid $1,088,772.33 in legal fees to defend discrimination claims and $252,000.00 in indemnity to the people who brought them over roughly two years, spending $4.32 defending each claim for every dollar paid to a claimant.
- Source: Ministry of Finance, Risk Management Branch
- Access: 1/1/2022 to 2/10/2024 FIN-2024-40399
- Why it matters: The ratio of defence spending to claimant payment is a direct measure of how the system meets families who assert their children’s rights.
How the SPP controls settlement
- What it shows: The SPP appoints and pays the lawyers, covers all legal fees and settlements, and withdraws coverage from a district that refuses a reasonable offer — so the insurer, not the named district, effectively decides when a claim is fought or settled.
- Source: Kim Block, “Riddle: Who has the final decision-making power?”, Parent Advocacy Tribunal Help (9 February 2026), drawing on Chilliwack Teachers’ Association v. Neufeld (No. 8), 2025 BCHRT 64 and (No. 9), 2025 BCHRT 310
- Access: kbpath.com
- Why it matters: Explains why the defence-to-indemnity ratio sits where it does — the party appointing counsel and controlling settlement is the one that profits from billable hours, and the district and Ministry keep no count of the cost.
Surrey (SD36) administrator guidance
- What it shows: Internal guidance, training materials, manuals, memos, workflow diagrams, family-communication scripts, and district-level protocols issued to principals, vice-principals, and district administrators on parent complaints, behaviour incidents, suspension decision-making, and student exclusion practices.
- Source: Surrey School District (SD36)
- Access: Sept 2023 to July 2026
- Why it matters: Shows exclusion as an administered practice — the scripts and protocols behind the incidents families experience one at a time.
Public data sets
Below is an overview of key public data sets relating to inclusive education:
BC student statistics and enrolment data
- What it shows: Provincial enrolment, designation counts, graduation, and completion figures.
- Source and type: Ministry of Education and Child Care, open data
- Access: Student Success BC (Ministry reporting portal — enrolment, completion, and graduation by district and category); machine-readable datasets at the BC Data Catalogue
- Why it matters: The population denominator for almost every inclusion question — how many designated students there are, and how they are counted.
Framework for Enhancing Student Learning (FESL) reports
- What it shows: District accountability reporting, including outcomes for students with disabilities and diverse abilities.
- Source and type: Ministry and district publications
- Access: Framework for Enhancing Student Learning — Continuous Improvement Program (provincial policy and the annual review of all 60 district reports; individual reports are published on each district’s own site)
- Why it matters: Where districts state their own goals and results.
OIPC orders and FOI decisions
- What it shows: How the Information and Privacy Commissioner has ruled on access disputes — including where districts have claimed privilege over aggregate legal and settlement totals.
- Source and type: Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC
- Access: OIPC Orders (filterable by legislation and year); see also Decisions and the Sectional Index
- Why it matters: When a district refuses a request, an existing order often decides whether that refusal holds.
National Exclusion Tracker
- What it shows: Self-reported exclusion incidents from families across the country. The first interim report documented 6,783 reported incidents of exclusion for students with disabilities between 2 September 2025 and 21 January 2026, with about three quarters of respondents reporting the exclusion was ongoing. Inclusion BC
- Source and type: Family Support Institute of BC with Inclusive Education Canada — the tracker BCEdAccess Society initiated in 2018 and built through more than 12,000 responses before management passed to FSI in 2025. Inclusion BC
- Access: National Exclusion Tracker; interim findings report
- Why it matters: The lived-experience counterpart to the administrative record — exclusion counted from the family side.
BC Ombudsperson investigation
- What it shows: A systemic investigation, announced January 2025, into whether K–12 students — including those with disabilities — are being excluded from BC’s public schools, and whether those exclusions are fair. The report has not yet been published; the investigation remains open as of writing.
- Source and type: Office of the Ombudsperson
- Access: Investigation announcement; update the entry with the report link once it is released
- Why it matters: An independent finding carries weight a family complaint cannot on its own.
