Mr. Speaker, in response to (a), with regard to the Public Health Agency of Canada’s, PHAC, work to prepare its Canadian child welfare information system, CCWIS, report, PHAC collaborates with provinces and territories, other federal departments, and indigenous organizations to support work on the CCWIS. The development of the 2023/2024 report involved collaboration, input, and/or consultation with all provincial and territorial departments/ministries responsible for child welfare services, national indigenous organizations, Indigenous Services Canada, policy experts, and researchers from the scientific community; see the acknowledgements section of the report for a detailed list. For the 2024/2025 report, PHAC continues to develop partnerships with other organizations and stakeholders, in addition to sustaining these existing collaborations.
In response to (b), the CCWIS includes data from all provinces and territories and from Indigenous Services Canada. Ontario data are from the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies, which receives information from its member agencies. Data from all other jurisdictions are from the provincial/territorial department or ministry responsible for child welfare services. Specific details about data sources and data coverage are included in table 1 of the 2023/2024 report.
In response to (c), it is expected that the 2024/2025 report, the second report using CCWIS data, will be published by March 31, 2025.