Exploring Theme: "Child and Youth Advocate Reports"

BC Representative for Children and Youth released “A Parent’s Duty: Government’s Obligation to Youth Transitioning into Adulthood. “This report is about those youth. It’s about good intentions gone unrealized, and systems that look much better on paper than in reality. It’s about supports that are notoriously scarce, inequitable, rigid, and a poor fit for so...

Office of the Child and Youth Advocate Newfoundland and Labrador issued a Statement of Concern – Unacceptable Delay in Establishing Inquiry for Innu Children in the Child Protection System....

Release of “Stop Giving Me a Number and Start Giving Me a Person: How 22 Girls Illuminate the Cracks in the Manitoba Youth Mental Health and Addiction System”, a Special Report by the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth 2020. “Alarmingly, in Manitoba, suicide is the leading manner of death for young people ages 10-17”....

“Long Wait for Change: Independent Review of Child Protection Services to Inuit Children in Newfoundland and Labrador” released with 33 recommendations. Recommendations. https://www.childandyouthadvocate.nl.ca/files/InuitReviewExecutiveSummaryEnglish.pdf...

The Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse – raised concerns about the lack of progress on the implementation of recommendations from their 2007 report on child and youth protection services in Nunavik, a follow-up report in 2010, in 2014 and again in 2016. In March 2018, the Commission presented these...

The Office of the Child and Youth Advocate released its 10th “State of the Child Report”. “According to this data, children and youth from our province face numerous challenges,” said Advocate Norman Bossé. “For example, the province has not done nearly enough to ensure the preservation of indigenous cultures. First Nations languages are imperilled to...

A report from the Office of the Auditor General of Canada tabled today in the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly concludes that the Department of Health and Social Services and the Health and Social Services Authorities did not meet key responsibilities for the protection and well-being of children, youth, and their families. This is the second...

The Office of the Child and Youth Advocate is launching a comprehensive, independent Review of the treatment, experiences and outcomes of Inuit children and youth in the Newfoundland and Labrador child protection system. The Review will identify deficiencies, explore promising and best practices, and make recommendations for improved outcomes within an appropriate cultural context. The Nunatsiavut...