Children's Aid Societies

• More needs to be done to protect kids in Ontario’s child welfare system: Coroner

  The report found that while agencies were trying to keep children safe, they made decisions focused on short-term goals rather than focusing on longer-term outcomes.

  Canada

  Sep 25, 2018
  
• Motherisk flyer is distressing to kids in care: Ontario children’s advocate

  Ontario's Advocate for Children and Youth is warning that a flyer distributed by the education ministry to schools in the province is damaging to kids involved with Children's Aid Societies.

  Canada

  Mar 29, 2017
  
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• Ontario promising $24 million in supports for adoptive families and Crown wards

  Ontario is promising $24 million in increased supports for adoptive families, including a new grant program to help cover the costs of college or university for adopted children.

  Canada

  Oct 31, 2016
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• Ontario to improve levels of care for youth in group homes, CAS custody

  Ontario is promising improved care for young people in foster and group homes, youth justice facilities and mental health residential treatment after a scathing report.

  May 29, 2016
• Ontario to make it easier for kids in care to find a forever home

  Ontario is taking steps to make it easier for kids in care of Children's Aid Societies to find a permanent family while also providing more support to adoptive parents.

  Politics

  Sep 29, 2015
• Recommendations from Baldwin inquest won’t go into effect until 2020

  A system allowing children's aid societies to share information - the main recommendation in a coroner's inquest into the 2002 death of Jeffrey Baldwin - won't be fully operational until 2020.

  Politics

  Feb 10, 2015