Milward, D. (2016). Children Need Families, Not Courtrooms: Alternatives to Adversarial Litigation in Child Welfare. Winnipeg, MB: Office of the Children’s Advocate of Manitoba.
This Special Report by the Office of the Children’s Advocate of Manitoba argues for the implementation of mediation-based alternatives for resolving child welfare benefits, after detailing how and why the routine application of standard adversarial procedures to child welfare matters can be problematic.