• Overview
• Complaints and Reports
  • Person Complaints
• Investigations
• Alternate Resolution Process
• Hearings
• Discipline Decisions
  • Hearing Decisions
  • Conduct Review Decisions
  • Consent Resolutions Agreements
  • Archived Discipline Decisions

Alternative Resolution Processes

• The Goals of Alternate Resolution Processes

  The College is mandated to review reports and complaints of member misconduct or incompetence and dispose of them in a manner consistent with objects of the Teaching Profession Act and other relevant laws. Where possible and appropriate, the College will proceed in a manner that will protect the public interest while minimizing the financial and human costs of a formal proceeding.

  The broader goal of these alternate resolution processes is to ensure a timely and fair disposition to conduct and competence issues while maintaining public confidence in professional self-regulation and the profession itself.

  The College has established various avenues to deal with conduct and competence issues that take into account the specific circumstances of the case. Apart from the formal discipline process, the College has various informal routes that can be taken.

• Informal Resolution Process

  The Preliminary Investigation Sub-Committee (PISC) can, before or after an investigation, determine to proceed informally. Generally this occurs in cases where the allegations are serious enough to proceed but the public and the member's interests may be best served through an informal resolution. Typically, this involves a letter to the member seeking his or her response to questions that can assure PISC of the member's professional reflection, understanding and commitment.

• Consent Resolution Process

  PISC may identify certain cases, before or after an investigation, which they believe should result in some action against the member's certificate or conditions on a member's practice. They may be cases that involve serious allegations that are not appropriate for the informal resolution process but disclose grounds for the College to pursue a negotiated resolution with the member.

  Once PISC refers a matter to the consent resolution process, the College will work with the member to explore the possibility of an agreement on the relevant facts and the outcome as it relates to his or her practice. PISC will have final authority to approve or reject an agreement and they are guided by the principle that protection of the public interest is paramount. Summaries of Consent Resolution Agreements are available at Consent Resolution Agreements.

• Conduct Review Sub-Committee

  Where a citation has been issued and the parties reach an agreement on all issues, the matter can be referred to the Conduct Review Sub-Committee. This Sub-Committee, comprised of three Council members, one of whom is a layperson, has the authority to review agreed statements of fact and disposition and either approve or reject them.

  Approval results in the conclusion of the matter on the terms as agreed. If the agreement is rejected, the case proceeds to a hearing in the usual manner. Decisions of the Conduct Review Sub-Committee can be found at Conduct Review Decisions.