The Financial Cost of Human Rights Complaints in Public Education

(25 month period)

Freedom of Information Request – Ministry of Finance

This is for human rights complaints in public schools only. We aren’t even including private schools.

Settlement fees – $252,000
Legal fees – $1,088,772.33

The average settlement for the 16 claims is $15,000.00

To read the full FOI results click below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ywz1rDQd1syFH_AbRT03koOVVsJnBtND/view?usp=sharing

I did a separate FOI request back in 2022 for 10 years.

From 2012-2022 almost 4.5 million in 10 years.

Almost $7,000,000.00 since 2012.

And the costs are rising.