policy & legislation

This section contains information on Canadian child welfare legislation and policy. In Canada, child welfare services are provincially and territorially funded and legislated, with the exception of federally funded services to First Nations peoples living on reserves. In accordance with individual agreements negotiated between First Nations communities, provincial/territorial governments, and the federal government, an increasing number of First Nations are delivering child and family services in accordance with provincial and territorial child welfare laws.

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First Nations Child Welfare in Manitoba

Kozlowski, Anna
Sinha, Vandna
Petti, Tara
Flette, Elsie

2012
Realizing a Sustainable Child Welfare System in Ontario

The Commission to Promote Sustainable Child Welfare

2012
Manitoba Family Services and Labour Annual Report 2011-2012

Minister of Family Services and Labour

2012
2011/2012 Report to Legislature: Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth

Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth (Ontario)

2012
Government of Nunavut Responses to Recommendations by the Standing Committee on Oversight of Government Operations and Public Accounts

Nunavut Minister of Health and Social Services

2011
Shifting definitions of emotional maltreatment: An analysis child welfare investigation laws and practices in Canada

Trocmé, Nico
Fallon,Barbara
MacLaurin, Bruce
Chamberland, Claire
Chabot, Martin
Esposito, Tonino

2011
Nova Scotia Early Childhood Development Report 2008–2010 & Child Well-Being Report 2009

Nova Scotia Department of Community Services

2011
Our Kids Are Worth It: Our Fourth Year-- Strategy for Children and Youth

Nova Scotia Department of Community Services

2011
Employment outcomes of former foster youth as young adults: The importance of human, personal, and social capital

Hook, Jennifer L.
Courtney, Mark E.

2011
Corporal punishment and physical abuse: population-based trends for three-to-11-year-old children in the United States

Zolotor, A. J., Theodore, A. D., Runyan, D. K., Chang, J. J., & Laskey, A. L. 

2011