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Child welfare services fall under the mandate of provincial and territorial governments, including a rapidly expanding system of Aboriginal child welfare authorities. This section contains material related to federal initiatives concerned with child welfare services as well as statistics compiled at the national level.

All Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect reports can be found here.

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Title Authors Year
Corporal Punishment: Fact Sheet

Zunino, A., Sansone, G., Fallon, B., & Vandermorris, A.

 2024
Understanding the Effects of Corporal Punishment on Children, Families and Communities and Implications for Legal Reform in Canada

Sansone, G., Fallon, B., Vandermorris, A., Zunino, A. & Milne, C.

 2024
The Breath of Life: First Nations Knowledge

Cindy Blackstock

 

 2024
An Exploratory Typology for Understanding Family-Relationship Issues in Kinship-Care Placements

Dorval, A., Hélie, S., & Poirier, M.-A.

 2024
Summary report: Canadian child welfare administrative data knowledge exchange meeting (2024)

McGonegal, C., Houston, E., Esposito, T., Fallon, B. & Trocmé, N. 

 2024
Indigenous foster children living in private households: Rates and sociodemographic characteristics of foster children and their households

Hahmann, T., Lee, H., & Godin, S.

 2024
The National Child Welfare Outcome Matrix (NOM): Fundamental Information to Support Public Accountability.

Trocmé, N

 2024
Summary report: Canadian child welfare administrative data knowledge exchange meeting (2023)

Esposito, T., Fallon, B., Trocmé, N., Caldwell, J., Saint-Girons, M., & Précourt, S.

 2023
Child protection services and youth experiencing homelessness: Findings of the 2019 national youth homelessness survey in Canada 2023
The more we change the more we stay the same: Canadian child welfare systems’ response to child well-being

Fallon, B., Joh-Carnella, N., Houston, E., Livingston, E., & Trocmé, N.

 2023