The Nova Scotia Department of Education and Early Childhood Development is investing $976,000 to place 47 specialized staff in schools as part of a pilot program aimed at addressing and preventing violence in the classroom.

This comes after Nova Scotia's auditor general reported in June that violence in schools was on the rise. Kim Adair's report found that reported violent incidents increased by 60 per cent in the last seven years, reaching 27,000 incidents in 2023 alone.