Milne, C., Fallon, B., Wu, A., Ariganello, A., Tempesta, C., (2024). Legal Representation for Children, The Child Welfare Toolkit. Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and the David Asper Center on Constitutional Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.
This report was developed with key partners in the child welfare and child protection sectors and synthesizes current legislation, case law and social science research regarding the practice of child protection. The goal is to help ensure that judicial decisions are aligned with evidence from the social science literature to better understand how to act in accordance with the best interest of children involved in the child welfare system and their families. It focuses on legal representation and participation of children in the context of proceedings involving family disputes about parenting time and decision-making responsibility following separation and child protection.