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Child abuse industry deaths in Canada

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Category: Child abuse industry deaths in Canada
Created: Tuesday, 27 June 2017 22:50
Written by Families United Ontario

Do the claims of good intentions really outweigh the bodies of the children dying in Ontario's child protection system every year?

Do you trust a corporate agency that refuses to register with the College of Social Work, that refuses to cooperate with Ombudsman and the Privacy Commissioner unless the law in Ontario specifically says they have to?

How did 92 children in care die between 2008/2012 according to the Ontario PDRC report? The PDRC say it's a complete mystery and no further investigation is required. Between 2008/2012 natural causes was listed as the least likely way for a child in care to die at 7% of the total deaths reviewed while "undetermined cause" was listed as the leading cause of death of children in Ontario's child protection system at 43% of the total deaths reviewed.

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Fatal Care: about the series

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Category: Child abuse industry deaths in Canada
Created: Thursday, 11 April 2013 16:27
Written by Karen Kleiss - Edmonton Journal & Darcy Henton - Calgary Herald

In 2009, the Edmonton Journal asked the government of Alberta how many children had died in its care that year. The government couldn’t provide a number, nor could it answer other questions about foster care deaths. It was not new; reporters had been having trouble getting this information for years. So, the Journal put in a request to see all internal government reports related to the deaths of children in care from 1999 to 2009. The government declined, citing privacy issues. But in June 2013, after a four-year legal battle, Alberta’s access to information commission forced the government to release information on each child that had died in its care between 1999 and 2013.

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Fatal Care: The deaths of Alberta children in government care

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Category: Child abuse industry deaths in Canada
Created: Monday, 02 May 2016 09:47
Written by Karen Kleiss - Edmonton Journal & Darcy Henton - Calgary Herald

Fatal Care, Publication ban lifted

 
In the last 14 years, 145 children have died in government care, nearly triple the number previously reported by the province. Many, like the child this father mourns at a gravesite west of Edmonton, were just infants.
 
The Alberta government has dramatically under-reported the number of child welfare deaths over the past decade, undermining public accountability and thwarting efforts at prevention and reform. A six-month Edmonton Journal-Calgary Herald investigation found 145 foster children have died since 1999, nearly triple the 56 deaths revealed in government annual reports over the same period.
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