Understanding Child Welfare in Ontario: It Might Surprise You
Video by OACAS Communications
Last year, Children's Aid Societies provided services to 43000 families in Ontario. Do you know why these families needed help?
Video by OACAS Communications
Last year, Children's Aid Societies provided services to 43000 families in Ontario. Do you know why these families needed help?
Official Ontario statute governing child and family services, including child-protection and adoption proceedings.
Ontario’s Child, Youth and Family Services Act is the primary provincial statute for child-protection proceedings and related child and family services.
Current OCJ guidance lays out the specialized child-protection court process, including the Application, Answer and Plan of Care, temporary hearings, conferences, motions and trial.
The OCJ guide sets out stages beginning with the protection application and first court date and continuing through hearings, conferences, motions and trial.
The guide identifies Form 8B for a child-protection application and Form 33B for an Answer and Plan of Care.
The guide explains that affidavits, including Form 14A, may be used at a temporary care and custody hearing and that those documents must be served and filed.
The guide distinguishes conferences from motions and explains that both may occur during a child-protection case.
The OCJ provides separate motion guidance for child-protection cases, which use specialized forms and procedures.
Ontario Court Services provides an official family-related collection for child, youth and family services act family court documents.
Official Ontario family-law form or related court document: Cover - Child Protection Continuing Record. Its use depends on the governing rule, the issues in the case and any applicable court directions.
Ontario Court Services lists this as Form 2, “Cover - Child Protection Continuing Record”.
The current English version is version dated 2006-12-31 and effective 2006-12-31.
Read the form together with the current Family Law Rules and any applicable court orders, notices and practice directions. The governing rule determines when the form is required and how it is used.
Official Ontario family-law form or related court document: Management Plan - Schedule "A" to Judgment. Its use depends on the governing rule, the issues in the case and any applicable court directions.
Ontario Court Services lists this as Form 2, “Management Plan - Schedule "A" to Judgment”.
The current English version is version dated 2021-04-30 and effective 2021-04-30.
Read the form together with the current Family Law Rules and any applicable court orders, notices and practice directions. The governing rule determines when the form is required and how it is used.
Official Ontario family-law form or related court document: Secure treatment order. Its use depends on the governing rule, the issues in the case and any applicable court directions.
Ontario Court Services lists this as Form 25B, “Secure treatment order”.
The current English version is version dated 2018-02-28 and effective 2018-04-29.
Read the form together with the current Family Law Rules and any applicable court orders, notices and practice directions. The governing rule determines when the form is required and how it is used.