Child welfare redesign strategy
Read our strategy to transform child and family services. It focuses on improving children, youth and family wellbeing and enhancing prevention and early intervention to keep more families together.
Introduction
The child welfare redesign strategy focuses on transforming child and family services to strengthen families and communities through prevention, early intervention and seeking more permanent homes for children and youth in care when they cannot stay in their own homes or communities.
Transforming child and family services is a significant undertaking and will take time. Working in partnership with Indigenous partners, children, youth and families (including a focus on diverse communities), community service providers, the child welfare sector and other health and social services partners, the government intends to take a phased and measured approach to implement redesigned services and systems that are effective, sustainable and accountable.
The new child welfare redesign strategy was developed with input from:
- youth
- families
- caregivers
- First Nations, Inuit and Métis partners
- community organizations
- frontline workers
- child welfare sector leaders
- lawyers
They participated in over 100 engagement sessions and provided over 3,000 responses to an online survey.
Learn more about the progress so far in transforming Ontario’s child welfare system.