Ontario Child Welfare
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‘A better way’: An Indigenous alternative to Ontario’s faltering child-welfare systemAn 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.FeaturesMar 8
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How one Ontario child welfare agency is fighting to fix a broken systemSarnia-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.FeaturesMar 7
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Boy found malnourished, living in squalor after ‘chronic neglect’ by Toronto children’s aid: reportA report from Ontario's Ombudsman reveals how the Children's Aid Society of Toronto repeatedly failed to protect a 10-year-old boy.InvestigationsDec 19, 2022
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‘Throwaway kids’: Allegations of human trafficking, mistreatment at Ont. group home chainA Global News investigation into one of Ontario's largest for-profit group home providers has revealed alarming allegations.InvestigationsNov 21, 2022
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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.InvestigationsJul 4, 2022
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‘A body check’: Kids restrained over 2000 times in one year in Ontario’s child-welfare systemAn 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.InvestigationsJun 7, 2022
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’60s Scoop plaintiffs finally to get day in courtThe 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.CanadaAug 21, 2016
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