Youth will have say in coroner’s review of group and foster home safety – The Star
Up to 10 youth with experience in Ontario’s child welfare system will be invited to inform a panel of experts probing the deaths of 11 young people in residential care over the past three years.
February 06, 2018
Young people will play a key role in determining how to prevent more youths from dying while in the care of group homes and foster homes.
Ontario’s chief coroner, Dirk Huyer, is putting together a team of up to 10 youths with experience in the child protection and mental health systems to inform a panel of experts probing the deaths of 11 young people in residential care over the past three years.
At least half of the youths will come from Indigenous communities in northwestern Ontario, he said.
