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Youth ranging in age from 15 to 24 spent the day with senior government officials, describing some of the most isolating and traumatizing decisions that impacted them while living in the protective care of social development.
Minister pledges continued work to get system ‘as right as we can’
Rachel Cave · CBC News
· Posted: Mar 23, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 26 minutes ago
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Kids living in government care travelled to Fredericton to tell New Brunswick’s social development minister how life in protective custody has added to the trauma of being removed from unsafe homes. (Costea Andrea M/Shutterstock)
A new report calls on the minister of social development to fix what’s broken in New Brunswick’s child welfare system.
And what sets this one apart from the decades of previous reviews is how the message was delivered and who delivered it, say the people involved.
Some 20 youth under guardianship orders from all over the province travelled to Fredericton to meet face to face with the minister and her most senior staff to describe how life in protective custody had added to their trauma.
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