Publication year: 2010
Source: Children and Youth Services Review, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 6 November 2010
Raymond A., Lemay
The Ontario child protection system has, over the past 13years, gone through two waves of reform but a recent government audit has highlighted ongoing concerns with performance and cost. In response, the Ontario Government set up a “Commission to Promote Sustainable Child Welfare” to address ongoing concerns with performance and costs. The Ontario reform strategy has introduced much standardization and a compliance regime to ensure service quality. In this article, the bona fides and costs of such a strategy are examined and the author proposes that continuous outcomes monitoring and a standard to safeguard direct service time to clients are…