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Society & Government

Child welfare and children in care platforms

Here's what the 2025 Ontario election parties are promising.
We don't have any PC policies on Child welfare and children in care.
We don't have any ONDP policies on Child welfare and children in care.
We don't have any Liberal policies on Child welfare and children in care.

Green

  • End for-profit care and introduce province-wide licensing of group homes

    "End for-profit care and introduce provincewide licensing of group homes to ensure our services place children at the centre of care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Produce annual reports on the number and proportion of Indigenous children who are in care
  • Ensure children's aid societies have access to complex care, housing, and financial supports

    "Ensure children’s aid societies have access to the complex care, housing and financial supports needed to support families to be successful" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Sufficiently fund community-based organisations and providers to ensure access to affirming and inclusive care for those with complex needs

    "Ensure access to affirming and inclusive care for those with complex needs by sufficiently funding community-based organisations and service providers to deliver highly specialised, intensive and licensed out-of- home care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Support Indigenous-led child welfare and protection services

    "Support Indigenous-led child welfare and protection services to ensure they can address the unique needs of the children in their care, and keep children in their communities." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Update the funding formula to provide greater financial stability, prioritising culturally-responsive, trauma-informed, community-based care

    "Develop an updated funding formula that brings greater financial stability to the sector and prioritises the delivery of non-profit high-quality, culturally responsive, trauma-informed, community-based care that empowers children and youth" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Create a strategy to recruit, train, and retain foster families and spaces for respite

    "Create a strategy to recruit, train and retain foster families and spaces for respite." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Shift the Ready, Set, Go to a readiness-based system with individualised transition supports and no aging out

    "Shift the Ready, Set, Go to a readiness-based system with no aging out, ensuring adequate integrated and individualised transition supports are available" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Prioritise family- and community-based foster placements by ensuring kin and alternate caregivers receive financial assistance and supports

    "Prioritise family- and community-based placements by ensuring kin and alternate caregivers receive adequate financial assistance and have timely access to local supports, services, and treatment" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

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