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Before the girl was found in a Rosedale dumpster, Toronto Children’s Aid had closed her case. Turns out, they had a history of closing cases too early
In an exclusive interview with the Star, the Auditor General says it may be time for a new audit of the child-welfare system. “We are talking about the most vulnerable people in our society.”
The children’s aid society responsible for closing the case of the four-year-old girl who was later found dead in a Rosedale dumpster failed, for years, to address the problem of shuttering child-protection cases too early, according to the province’s Auditor General’s office.
And before Neveah went missing, Children’s Aid Society (CAS) Toronto was one of only two of the audited child-welfare agencies in the province that had not addressed concerns they were prematurely ending their supervision of vulnerable children — putting girls and boys still in need of protection at risk.
Now the provincial watchdog says it may be time for a new audit of the child-welfare system — saying she has no information about a “review and audit” Premier Doug Ford’s government says it is undertaking.
“We are talking about the most vulnerable people in our society that are needing protection from their environment,” Shelley Spence, who was appointed earlier this year, said in an exclusive interview with the Star this week. “So it is very disappointing.”
Of Neveah, she said: “I can’t get a picture of that dumpster out of my head.”
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