Every school in Manitoba must undertake a safety review and send the assessment to the Department of Education, the provincial government says, responding to a child being assaulted last week.

" Nothing else matters unless our kids are safe," Premier Wab Kinew said Monday at the Manitoba School Boards Association office in Winnipeg.

"What happened at Darwin School last week should never happen. My thoughts are with this child and their family."

A student at the kindergarten to Grade 8 school in Winnipeg’s St. Vital area was assaulted in a bathroom on Nov. 27 by a man who is a registered sex offender.

Scott William George, 28, is charged with assault and forcible confinement in connection with the incident.

Police allege he entered an elementary school and hid in a bathroom, then g

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