Foster System

• Western University, affiliated colleges join push to assist students aging out of foster care

  Similar initiatives were secured within the last year at Georgian College, Laurentian University and Loyalist College.

  Education

  Oct 27, 2020
  
• Coronavirus: B.C. youth in care to still get support after 19th birthday

  The B.C. government is ensuring youth in care don't age out of the system during the ongoing coronavirus crisis. 

  Politics

  Mar 31, 2020
  
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• Number of newborns apprehended by Sask. social services climbing

  Data from the Social Services Ministry shows the number of new borns apprehended grew annually between 2013 and 2017, topping out at 148.

  Politics

  Nov 20, 2018
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• Reduce Manitoba kids in care using prevention tools, says report

  The Manitoba government is being urged to reduce the number of kids in child welfare by focusing more on supporting parents who struggle with poverty, addiction or housing issues.

  Politics

  Sep 19, 2018
• Nova Scotia foster parents to get $1.6M in extra funding

  Community Services Minister Kelly Regan says the money will be used to increase babysitting rates and per diems paid to families.

  Canada

  Jul 27, 2017
• ‘He’s in survival mode’: Child forced to leave foster parents who’d raised him since birth

  Foster parents say the wellbeing of a nine-year-old B.C. boy is in jeopardy after he was taken from the foster home where he was raised and sent back to his birth mother.

  Canada

  Mar 16, 2017
• Alberta panel examining deaths of children in care hampered by secrecy

  Members of an Alberta legislature panel investigating deaths of children in government care say the committee will be ineffective unless it starts getting candid answers.

  Politics

  Feb 22, 2017