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Child Protection
Advocacy


The Ministry for Children & Family Development has the difficult and important mandate of ensuring that children are safe from abuse and neglect.

If a child protection agency determines that a child is not safe, it has the ability to directly intervene through investigation, offering a range of support services to the parent, and, if necessary, can remove a child from the family home.

The responsibility and power that child protection agencies have is significant and can appear as a formidable force to a parent who feel that they have lost the ability to make decisions about their child.

If you have been contacted by the Ministry for Children & Family Development , and if your child has been removed from your custody, or there is a possibility of removal, you are entitled to legal representation and to have an advocate with you when you attend meetings about your child.

Our advocacy services include:
  • providing information about child welfare law
  • helping you communicate with the Ministry for Children & Family Development and other involved professionals
  • accompaniment to meetings with the social worker
  • accompany you to court
  • help you communicate with your lawyer
  • help you to develop your parenting and safety plans for your children
  • resource and referral information



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