Funding Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
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The听听(CIS) is a national initiative to collect data on children who come to the attention of a child welfare authority due to alleged or suspected abuse and/or neglect. The CIS examines the incidence of reported child maltreatment and the characteristics of the children and families investigated by child welfare authorities in the year the study is conducted.
The first reported child abuse and neglect incidence study conducted in Canada was the听. The first national cycle of the CIS was completed in听and subsequent studies were conducted in听and听.听The CIS datasets provide a unique opportunity to compare changes in child maltreatment investigations across Canada over the last decade. The 2008 cycle also includes a number of province-specific studies in British-Columbia,听,听and听, as well as a national听. In 2013, province specific studies were conducted in听听and Quebec, and in 2014, a province specific study was conducted in Alberta.The next cycle of the CIS is planned for 2018.
Core funding for the three CIS national studies has been provided by the听Public Health Agency of Canada鈥檚 Injury and Child Maltreatment Division.听 Additional financial and/or in kind support has been provided by Provincial and Territorial child welfare authorities, Aboriginal child welfare organizations, as well as participating universities and research funding organizatons.
For more information on the CIS, please visit听the .