{"id":57247,"date":"2025-05-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/?post_type=article&#038;p=57247"},"modified":"2025-05-30T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T23:02:11","slug":"2025-26-support-staff-learning-improvement-fund-lif-2","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/article\/2025-26-support-staff-learning-improvement-fund-lif-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2025-26 Support Staff Learning Improvement Fund (LIF)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group hide-on-main\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"taxonomy-action_or_info wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/action_or_info\/action\/\" rel=\"tag\">For Action<\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-release_date article-release-date wp-block-post-terms\"><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__prefix\">Published <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/release_date\/2025-05-30\/\" rel=\"tag\">Friday May 30 2025<\/a><\/div>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">2025-26 Support Staff Learning Improvement Fund (LIF)<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Learning Improvement Fund (LIF) provides funding to districts to provide additional supports and services to meet students\u2019 needs. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca\/civix\/document\/id\/complete\/statreg\/53_2012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LIF Regulation<\/a> for more information, including what the funding can be used for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To receive the <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/assets\/gov\/education\/administration\/resource-management\/k12funding\/25-26\/25-26-summary-of-grants-april-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LIF allocation for next school year<\/a>, school districts must engage in genuine consultation with local support staff unions regarding LIF use. Please complete this <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/assets\/download\/D5D63219331D47AFAF725F3FE749C895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">form<\/a> confirming genuine consultation has occurred and return it to <a href=\"mailto:FFAB.ECC@gov.bc.ca\">FFAB.ECC@gov.bc.ca<\/a> by June 20, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the local union and school district do not agree that genuine consultation has occurred, the BC Public School Employers\u2019 Association (BCPSEA) will work with the parties to facilitate the process. School districts are asked to contact their <a href=\"https:\/\/bcpsea.bc.ca\/about-us\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BCPSEA district liaison<\/a> to discuss any issues regarding genuine consultation.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Learning Improvement Fund (LIF) provides funding to districts to provide additional supports and services to meet students\u2019 needs. See the LIF Regulation for more information, including what the funding can be used for. To receive the LIF allocation for next school year, school districts must engage in genuine consultation with local support staff unions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/article\/2025-26-support-staff-learning-improvement-fund-lif-2\/\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" >Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"action_or_info":[348],"release_date":[1381],"division":[1403],"target_bulletin":[413],"audiences":[323],"sort_order":[],"class_list":["post-57247","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","action_or_info-action","release_date-2025-05-30","division-wag","target_bulletin-district-dmb","audiences-secretary-treasurers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/57247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/57247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57351,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/57247\/revisions\/57351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"action_or_info","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/action_or_info?post=57247"},{"taxonomy":"release_date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/release_date?post=57247"},{"taxonomy":"division","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/division?post=57247"},{"taxonomy":"target_bulletin","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/target_bulletin?post=57247"},{"taxonomy":"audiences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiences?post=57247"},{"taxonomy":"sort_order","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sort_order?post=57247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}