Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
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Children's Services Branch
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Description area
Dates of existence
History
The Children's Services Branch was created in 1986, centralizing a range of functions relating to children's services in Ontario previously dispersed throughout the Ministry of Community and Social Services.
Initially forming part of the Community Services Division, the Children's Services Branch was transferred to the Strategic Planning and Intergovernmental Relations Division in 1990 where it remained until 1992. In that year the branch was moved to the Children, Family, and Community Services Division.
In 2000 the function was decentralized, to be taken over by Regional Offices.
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Functions, occupations and activities
The Children's Services Branch developed policies and programs for a variety of children's services in Ontario. These include licensing of children's residential care facilities, confidentiality of and access to records, young offender services, child welfare services, services for native people, and services relating to children's abuse (e.g. treatment, intervention and primary abuse prevention). The branch was also responsible for adoptions in Ontario, including the Adoption Disclosure Register. The branch was not responsible for the actual delivery of programs relating to children's services. That function rested with approved agencies and/or societies.
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Rules and/or conventions used
RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Sources
KWIC Indexes to Government Services, 1986-1998; Canadiana Name Authorities, 1996-12-24.
Maintenance notes
Archivist(s):
Solovitch