2025 HELD Media Release
As Canadians face increasingly intense and frequent heat waves, health, education and legal experts are sounding the alarm on a growing crisis: extreme heat in schools and child care settings due to the escalating effects of climate change.
A Collective Call for Action to Protect Children from Extreme Heat In Schools and Child Care Settings
There is an urgent need for planning, investment and policy change to ensure that all schools, early learning and child care settings in Canada are climate-ready and equipped to protect children from heat-related health risks, and to mitigate adverse impacts on learning associated with elevated temperatures.