Trocmé, N. (1996). Development and preliminary evaluation of the Ontario Child Neglect Index. Child Maltreatment 1(2), 145-155. https://doi.org/10.1177/107755959600100
The Child Neglect Index is a brief, easy-to-use tool for rating the type and severity of child neglect whose validity and reliability compare favourably with the Child Well-Being Scales in field testing. Although it was designed around Ontario’s child welfare laws, the tool and the expert-based method used to develop it can easily be applied in other jurisdictions.