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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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Responding to child maltreatment in Canada: Context for international comparisons

Fallon, Barbara
Trocmé, Nico
Fluke, John
Van Wert, Melissa
MacLaurin, Bruce
Sinha, Vandna
Helie, Sonia
Turcotte, Daniel

2012
Revised CIS-2008 Weighting Procedure Description

Trocmé, Nico
Sinha, Vandna
Fallon, Barbara
MacLaurin, Bruce

2012
Risky business: An ecological analysis of intimate partner violence disclosure

Alaggia, Ramona
Regehr, Cheryl
Jenney, Angelique

2012
Sexual Abuse Investigations by Level of Substantiation in Canada in 2008

Lefebvre, Rachael
Van Wert, Melissa
Fallon, Barbara
Trocmé, Nico

2012
Supervisory neglect and risk of harm. Evidence from the Canadian child welfare system.
Ruiz-Casares, Mónica
Trocmé, Nico
Fallon, Barbara
2012
The role of school connectedness in the link between family involvement with child protective services and adolescent adjustment

Hamilton, Hayley A.
Wekerle, Christine
Paglia-Boak, Angela
Mann, Robert E.

2012
Timing of First Exposure to Maternal Depression and Adolescent Emotional Disorder in a National Canadian Cohort

Naicker, Kiyuri 
Wickham, Maeve
Colman, Ian 

2012
A comparison of First Nations and non-Aboriginal children investigated for maltreatment in Canada in 2003

MacLaurin, Bruce
Trocmé, Nico
Fallon, Barbara
Blackstock, Cindy
Pitman, Lisa
McCormack, Megan

2011
Aboriginal Children. Canada must do better: Today and tomorrow. Special report submitted to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

Canadian Council of Child and Youth Advocates

2011
Anxiety and/or depression in 10-15-year-olds investigated by child welfare in Canada

Tonmyr, Lil
Williams, Gabriela
Hovdestad, Wendy E.
Draca, Jasminka

2011