Canada Child Welfare

• ‘Appalling’: AFN Chief says Indigenous youth shouldn’t be placed in for-profit care

  Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, AFN National Chief, renews calls for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to apologize to Indigenous youth who’ve been wronged by Canada’s child-welfare systems.

  Investigations

  Mar 5, 2024
  
• Ontario ombudsman slams foster care company, child welfare agencies for failing Indigenous girl

  Ontario's ombudsman has released a searing report which details how multiple child welfare agencies failed to ensure the safety of a 13-year-old Indigenous girl.

  Investigations

  Apr 13, 2023
  
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• Revised Indigenous child-welfare settlement going back to Canadian Human Rights Tribunal

  The deal includes an additional $3 billion that includes compensation for 13,000 more children and other amendments that both sides are hoping will satisfy the tribunal's concerns.

  Canada

  Apr 5, 2023
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• ‘A better way’: An Indigenous alternative to Ontario’s faltering child-welfare system

  An Indigenous child protection agency in Ontario called Nogdawindamin uses a novel approach to child welfare that focuses on culture, families and community to keep kids at home.

  Features

  Mar 8, 2023
• How one Ontario child welfare agency is fighting to fix a broken system

  Sarnia-Lambton Children’s Aid Society created a plan to end the practice of kids growing up in group homes. It has succeeded, but their results have come at a cost.

  Features

  Mar 7, 2023
• An Indigenous mother took her life after child welfare took her kids. What can be done?

  A Manitoba mother of four posted a video online calling out the child welfare system for apprehending her children as she fled domestic abuse. Soon after, she took her own life.

  Canada

  Feb 17, 2023
• Boy found malnourished, living in squalor after ‘chronic neglect’ by Toronto children’s aid: report

  A report from Ontario's Ombudsman reveals how the Children's Aid Society of Toronto repeatedly failed to protect a 10-year-old boy.

  Investigations

  Dec 19, 2022
• Reports, inspections, a death: Red flags raised for years inside kids group home chain

  A Global News investigation has uncovered two government reports that raised serious concerns about a large Ontario group home chain.

  Investigations

  Nov 23, 2022
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• ‘Like a zombie’: Ontario group home chain accused of overmedicating kids in care

  Former workers and youth who lived at a large chain of group homes say they were overmedicated, a Global News investigation has found.

  Investigations

  Nov 22, 2022
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• ‘Throwaway kids’: Allegations of human trafficking, mistreatment at Ont. group home chain

  A Global News investigation into one of Ontario's largest for-profit group home providers has revealed alarming allegations.

  Investigations

  Nov 21, 2022