The Ontario government must launch an independent review into how a psychologist found to have misrepresented her credentials was able to submit assessments for years in child protection cases, say a growing number of lawyers, advocates and politicians.
The calls come in the wake of an ongoing Star investigation into psychologist Nicole Walton-Allen, who a judge found in December had “intentionally misrepresented her qualifications” since at least 2009, passing herself off as a clinical psychologist when she is only authorized to practise school psychology.
Walton-Allen, whose company has offices in Hamilton and Etobicoke, testified in court that she had completed more than 100 parenting capacity assessments going back to 1992. Few records of her opinions are public, but the Star has found several cases in which Walton-Allen recommended children be permanently taken from their parents and placed for adoption.
“The big question is how did we let this happen?” said lawyer Tammy Law, head of the Toronto chapter of the Ontario Association of Child Protection Lawyers.
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