More than 50 insiders with Ontario’s child-welfare system are blowing the whistle, telling Global News they believe for-profit group homes companies are targeting, and in some cases, even charging more to care for Indigenous youth. From remote First Nations in northern Ontario to Nunavut — Global News found that communities with the fewest resources were often forced to send their children hundreds of kilometres away – to private group homes in the south. Former youth in care say the experience of leaving community and culture is traumatizing and lasting. Carolyn Jarvis investigates.
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