Rehtaeh Parsons' father says a recent report into his daughter’s death has little substance and doesn’t answer the critical questions.

The final report into how the Halifax Regional School Board handled the teen’s case was released on Friday. It was supposed to provide answers to complex questions that would prevent similar tragedies from happening in the future, but Glen Canning says it likely won’t.

Wayne MacKay, chair of the province’s Cyberbullying Task Force, agrees.

“I am a bit disappointed in the lack of detail and the lack of any kind of clear path forward, so I guess I expected a little more,” says MacKay.

Rehtaeh’s family alleges she was raped by four boys in November 2011, at the age of 15, and that a photo of the incident was passed around her school. They say Rehtaeh was bullied and harassed by her peers, which eventually led her to commit suicide in April, at the age of 17.

The independent review concluded the Halifax Regional School Board could have done a better job, but it was hindered by the fact that Rehtaeh was rarely at school.

"Even though there were communications as she transferred (between schools) ... it doesn't seem as if the adults in her world were able to help her as she was going through this trauma," co-author Debra Pepler told a news conference on Friday.

"Nobody was able to grab hold of her and help her navigate that."

Canning says he wanted to know whether the schools involved followed the proper policies and procedures, but he still doesn’t have the answer to that question. He is calling the report a “lightweight study” and says he has more questions now than he did before.

“If you can’t identify how something is broken, you can’t fix it,” he says.

Irene Smith, executive director of the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre in Halifax, says she was surprised the report's authors didn't consult her organization. The report indicates Rehtaeh's parents have said the centre provided counselling for their daughter.

“I was a little disappointed that there wasn’t a little more detail about sort of the schools and the mental health system in particular,” says Smith.

She also says it’s difficult to have confidence in a report that inaccurately describes the services provided by the centre.

Nova Scotia’s education minister says the report’s co-authors – Debra Pepler and Penny Milton - are nationally-recognized experts. She also says the report is “thoughtful” and “complete.”

MacKay, who spent a year writing a report on cyberbullying, says he supports the recommendations made in the review, but says they aren’t new.

“All of those things are in the task force report in more specific form and secondly, it doesn’t really give them a clear guidance as to what you do tomorrow to make it better,” he says.

“I don’t see this report helping a single kid,” says Canning.

Both Canning and Smith point to one positive note in the report – the recommendation to commission an independent review at the IWK Health Centre.

The children’s hospital says it is working closely with the government and that details of the review will be shared when they are finalized.

With files from CTV Atlantic's Kayla Hounsell