Black kids stay longest in care, CAS study shows

More data on children’s aid in Toronto (see earlier article):

Black children in Toronto stay longer in foster care and group homes than any other group of kids.

A survey conducted by the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto found 45 per cent of black children taken from parents in the 2008 fiscal year spent more than 12 months in care.

Only 20 per cent of white children taken during that period spent more than a year in care. For children with Asian parents, the number was 18 per cent.

The study looked only at families who came into contact with children’s aid for the first time. Of those families, 126 of them had children taken into care.

The numbers were part of a Toronto society analysis that also highlights what black parents have been angry about for years: their children are taken into care at rates far higher than white children.

It confirms numbers first reported by the Star in December 2014 — 31 per cent of children in the society’s care are black and a further 11 per cent had one parent who is black. In Toronto, 8.2 per cent of people under 18 are black.

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