The Ontario Training Schools Class Action: Know Your Rights Before It’s Too Late (Part 1)

On June 26, 2026, the Government of Ontario and Warwick (Rick) Brown, the court-appointed representative plaintiff in the Ontario Training Schools class action lawsuit, jointly announced that a $60 million settlement agreement had been approved by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The class action settles claims arising from historic neglect, deprivation, abuse, and solitary confinement suffered by individual harm while residing at 13 specific Ontario Training Schools between 1953 and 1984, on behalf of all individuals who qualify; thus, all qualifying induvial are automatically considered “Class Members”. 

For some of the individual Class Members, this announcement marks a much-desired end to a traumatic chapter of their lives while offering the promise of compensation for the harm done to them while at an Ontario Training School.