CBC Investigates: Province changes how it counts kids in care, reports lower number than Manitoba child welfare agencies – CBC
10,776 kids in care, province says after change to how number is tallied, but agencies say total is 11,143
Jan 18, 2019
At first glance, it looks like the number of children in care in Manitoba decreased from just over 10,700 to 10,328 last year — a figure touted by the Families minister as the first decrease in the number of children in care in over a decade.
But dig a little deeper and there is a different story, where the province has made changes to how it tallies that number — and the result has raised questions about how many children are actually in care.
The province has moved from collecting self-reported numbers from child welfare agencies to using a central database to keep track of how many kids are in Child and Family Services care in Manitoba.
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