Children’s Aid Society now subject to third party oversight

As of the beginning of March, the province’s children’s aid societies are no longer immune from investigation by the province. Starting March 1, the provisions of Bill 8, the Public Sector and MPP Accountability and Transparency Act, 2014, which amended the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth Act, 2007, placed authority to investigate children’s aid societies, including Native children, under the Office of the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth. That agency now has the authority to investigate matters concerning a child or a group of children receiving services from a children’s aid society (CAS) or a residential licensee where a CAS is the placing agency.

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