Ontario Child Welfare

• ‘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
  
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• 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
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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
• Inside Ontario group homes where kids were called ‘paycheques’

  A Global News and APTN investigation discovered the key players behind Connor Homes have amassed real-estate assets estimated to be in excess of $10 million.

  Investigations

  Jul 4, 2022
• ‘A body check’: Kids restrained over 2000 times in one year in Ontario’s child-welfare system

  An investigation by Global News and APTN has found physical restraints occur at an alarming rate inside Ontario's group homes. Experts say their use is psychologically damaging.

  Investigations

  Jun 7, 2022
• ’60s Scoop plaintiffs finally to get day in court

  The lawsuit turns on a federal-provincial arrangement in which Ontario child welfare services placed as many as 16,000 aboriginal children with non-native families between 1965 and 1984.

  Canada

  Aug 21, 2016