The Commission’s Work
This section of the website will be updated regularly as the Commission’s work unfolds over its three year mandate.
Formal Reports
The Commission released its first report, Towards Sustainable Child Welfare in Ontario July 5, 2010. The report examines Ontario’s child welfare system as it stands today and how its policies, funding and service delivery have grown and changed in the past ten years:
- Towards Sustainable Child Welfare in Ontario (full report)
- Executive Summary
- Unique Considerations for Aboriginal Youth and Children
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Working Papers and Backgrounders
As part of its principle of “transparency”, the Commission will continue to publish working papers and backgrounders to share some of the basis for recommendations and directions that arise from its work. We will add to this list as the Commission’s work continues.
- Working Paper #1: Reducing Administrative Burden in Child Welfare
- Working Paper #2: Jurisdictional Comparisons of Child Welfare System Design
- Working Paper #3: In-Care Services Working Paper
- Background Paper #1: Modernizing the Tracking of High Risk Child Protection Cases
- Background Paper #2: Serious Occurrence Reporting
- Aboriginal Child Welfare in Ontario – A Discussion Paper – July 2011
- A New Approach to Funding Child Welfare in Ontario – August 2011
Recommendations to the Minister of Children and Youth Services
The Commission’s mandate includes issuing formal recommendations to Minister Laurel Broten for changes that would advance sustainable child welfare. The background for many of these recommendations is provided through the Commission’s working papers. Formal recommendations to the Minister will be posted here after they have been tabled with the Minister:
- Recommendations: Reducing Administrative Burden in Child Welfare
- Recommendations: Streamlining and Simplifying Serious Occurrence Reporting
- Recommendations: Modernizing the Tracking of High Risk Child Protection Cases
Commissioned Papers
A Description of the Child Welfare System Landscape in Ontario was prepared by the Bay Consulting Group to provide the Commission with a description of the child welfare system landscape in Ontario. Please note that while the document provides valuable input, the conclusions and interpretations are those of the Bay Consulting Group and not the Commission.
Directives to Children’s Aid Societies
The Commission’s mandate gives it the authority under the Child and Family Services Act to issue Directives to one or more children’s aid societies, including directives respecting their provision of services. As and when, the Commission issues such Directives, they will be posted on this website.
At this time, the Commission has not issued any Directives.