A new report has been released that shows that aboriginal children are over-represented in in the Children’s Aid system.
The study is called Interrupted Childhoods and was conducted by the Ontario Human Rights Commission.
Renu Mandhane heads up the commission and says they found that in 93 percent of the Children’s Aid Societies, Indigenous and Black children were over-represented.
She says there are some commonalities between the two groups.
“The socio-economic issues that bring families into contact with child welfare agencies, things like lower levels of educational attainment…poverty. Those are issues that are common across these groups.”.
Mandhane admits they weren’t able to get very good information from Children’s Aid Societies in northwestern Ontario because they do not collect race-based data.
She is recommending that information start to be made available.
