Rebekah was found dehydrated and malnourished by responding officers, prosecutors said in court on Monday, Aug. 4, according ...

While just 7.7 per cent of all children under 14 are Indigenous, they account for 52.2 per cent of all children in foster care — astonishing numbers that demand some sort of response, Philpott said.

Alex Gervais died in September, 2015, after he was placed in a hotel by child-welfare workers. Dozens of family care homes in B.C. that provide services for children in government care were found ...

Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott has said the number of children in government care across Canada is a “humanitarian crisis.” Spillett says the crisis has been decades in the making.

Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott says her department would immediately move to increase funding for First Nation child welfare services after another compliance order from the Canadian ...

"We know the [child welfare] system as it is today does not support Indigenous approaches." B.C. has more than 20 delegated agencies, with a mixed track record.

The fact remains that Nova Scotia’s child welfare services are underfunded and many children and youth in this system are not doing well. We need to do something about that.

Last year, B.C. became the first province in Canada to legally recognize the right of Indigenous communities to have control over their own child and family welfare services. The changes follow ...

Saskatchewan Minister for Child Services Gene Makowsky spoke on Monday revision to Saskatchewan's child welfare legislation titled the Child and Family Services Amendment Act, 2022. The amendments ...