Child Welfare

• Child welfare reform is in the hands of the AFN after deal voted down: Hajdu

  Chiefs rejected the 10-year reform deal at a gathering in Calgary last week.

  Canada

  Oct 23, 2024
  
• AFN to discuss next steps after child welfare reform deal is defeated

  The defeated deal was struck between Canada, the Chiefs of Ontario, Nishnawbe Aski Nation and the Assembly of First Nations in July.

  Politics

  Oct 18, 2024
  
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• First Nations chiefs vote to reject landmark child welfare reform deal

  Chiefs are in Calgary this week for an Assembly of First Nations gathering where they're set to vote on the deal, but dozens of them have raised concerns about how it will work.

  Canada

  Oct 17, 2024
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• Chiefs gather to vote on landmark $47.8B child welfare reform agreement with Canada

  First Nations chiefs are gathering in Calgary today as they prepare to vote on a landmark $47.8-billion child welfare reform agreement with Ottawa.

  Canada

  Oct 16, 2024
• Changes now in effect to allow more kids in Manitoba to be kept in care of families

  More than 80 per cent of kids in care in Manitoba are Indigenous, and Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine says the changes will reduce that number.

  Politics

  Oct 11, 2024
• Chiefs of Ontario to vote in favour of $47.8B child welfare agreement with Canada

  Chiefs in Ontario have voted in support of a landmark $47.8-billion child welfare reform agreement with Canada.

  Canada

  Oct 11, 2024
• Manitoba government apologizes as part of $530M child welfare lawsuit settlement

  The Manitoba government has apologized in the legislature for clawing back federal benefit payments to kids in the child welfare system.

  Politics

  Oct 8, 2024
• Ontario child-welfare groups housing kids in offices, trailers under probe

  The Ontario ombudsman is opening an investigation into safety concerns about the practice of child-welfare agencies housing young children and teens in motels and hotels.

  Canada

  Sep 5, 2024
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• B.C. child welfare system facing workload, staffing crisis: report

  The representative for children in British Columbia says the provincial child welfare system is either in a state of crisis or close to it with understaffing and unmanageable workloads.

  Jul 23, 2024
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• Child welfare resolutions barred from upcoming AFN assembly

  In emails to a chairperson with Squamish Nation, the AFN said all resolutions on child welfare were being bumped to a special chiefs assembly this fall.

  Canada

  Jun 27, 2024