Report Your Immunizations

Important information on 2024/2025 enforcement of the Immunization of School Pupils Act (ISPA)

For the 2024/2025 school year, Halton Region Public Health will be enforcing Ontario’s Immunization of School Pupils Act (ISPA) (external link) for students born 2007 to 2012, and 2017 who are missing immunization records with Public Health.

The ISPA requires that all children and adolescents attending school be fully immunized against several designated diseases. Parents/guardians must review and report all vaccines their children receive to Public Health.

Students must have up to date immunization records (or a valid vaccine exemption) for the following ISPA designated diseases (external PDF):

• Tetanus, Diphtheria, Pertussis, Polio;
• Measles, Mumps, Rubella;
• Meningococcal Disease; and
• Varicella (chickenpox) (required for children born in 2010 or later).

If your child is unable to be immunized for medical reasons, or if you choose not to immunize your child, you must submit a vaccine exemption to Halton Region Public Health. For more details about this process, please visit the Vaccine Exemption for Children page for more information.

Parents/guardians have been notified by mail if their 2007 to 2012, and 2017 born child’s record is missing information. These students may be suspended from school in early 2025 if their immunization records remain incomplete.

Please note: If you have recently reported your child’s immunization record, processing time may take up to 4 to 5 weeks.

Requirements to attend school

1. Report legally required immunizations as outlined in the Provincial Immunization of School Pupils Act (ISPA) (external link)
   or
2. Submit a valid vaccine exemption. Visit the Vaccine Exemption for Children page for more information.

Halton Region Public Health enforces ISPA on behalf of the province.

If your child attends a licensed home or centre-based child care, there are different requirements. Please see the Child Care and Early Years Act (CCEYA) page (external link) for more information.

View or report immunization records

Immunization Connect Ontario (ICON)

• Immunization Connect Ontario (ICON) (external link) is a web-based program that enables parents/legal guardians to:
  • View their child’s immunization record, and be informed of which immunizations they need or will need in the future.
  • Report their child’s immunizations (report those not received at a Health Region community or school-based clinic.)
  The information submitted through the ICON website will be reviewed by Halton Region Public Health.
• To view or report your child's immunization information using ICON, you will need to create an account and set a PIN. To do this, you will need one of the following:
  • Ontario Health Card (OHIP): Your child’s Ontario Health Card must be on file with Halton Region Public Health; or
  • Ontario Immunization ID (OIID): The OIID is included in any Immunization letter you may have received from Halton Region Public Health.
• If your child does not have an Ontario Health Card and you do not have your child's OIID, you can call Halton Region Public Health at 311.
• After vaccines are reported through ICON, it may take 4 to 5 weeks for your child’s immunization record to be updated.
• After the 4 to 5 weeks, please log back in to ICON to verify your child’s immunization record and ensure that all required immunizations are up to date.
• It is not necessary to report COVID-19 vaccines received in Ontario, as they are already recorded in the province’s COVID-19 immunization data base.
• Do not submit blood work serology/titres through ICON. If looking to provide proof of immunity, a valid vaccine exemption for medical reasons is required. Visit the Vaccine Exemption for Children page for more information.

Additional ways to update your immunization records

• Telephone: Call 311
• Mail or drop-off: Vaccination Services, Halton Region Public Health
  1151 Bronte Road, Oakville, ON, L6M 3L1
• Fax (secure): 905-465-3403

Requesting your immunization record

Halton Region Public Health does not release immunization records to a parent/guardian of any individuals 16 years of age and older. An individual 16 years of age and older must call to request their own record or access ICON themselves.

• The best way to access your child's record is through Immunization Connect Ontario (ICON) (external link).
• You can print or save a copy and access the immunization record anytime using ICON.
• Important: Health care providers do not report immunizations to their local public health units. We may not have an immunization record if:
  • you or your parent/guardian did not report the immunizations to Halton Region Public Health. Under the Immunization of School Pupils Act, parent(s)/legal guardian(s) are responsible for updating Public Health every time their child receives an immunization;
  • you recently moved to Ontario;
  • you received your immunization from a health care provider or pharmacist (health care providers do not report immunizations to Halton Region Public Health); or
  • you were born before 1980.

Contact your family physician or previous clinics where you have been immunized. When physicians retire or relocate to another practice, you may be able to get help locating records by contacting the Advisory Services Department with the College of Physicians and Surgeons at 1-800-268-7096, ext. 603.