The New Brunswick chief coroner, who oversees the child death review committee, hasn't filed a public report on the committee's work in more than two years.
found the committee's public reports were vague and lacked context. It meant the public knew very little about how at-risk children were dying or what was being learned from those tragedies.to require that the committee's news releases include more information about the circumstances of a child's death. Typically, that would include how the child died, how they were known to the Department of Social Development, and the child's age.
Of those 25 deaths, 16 children died from natural causes, according to information the chief coroner compiled for CBC in June. Four deaths were deemed accidental, two died by suicide, and three deaths were marked as undetermined. Since the beginning of 2021, the committee has reviewed four deaths, according to information obtained by the CBC in June but not posted publicly:Six recommendations were made this past spring following an accidental death in 2021, but the committee hasn't revealed how that child died or what it recommended.
In addition to the press releases about its reviews, the committee's terms of reference require the chief coroner to publish an annual report on the work of the committee, "including a statistical review of all child deaths reported to the coroner for that calendar year." That hasn't happened since 2018.
CUPE Local 1418 president Shawna Morton, who represents front-line social workers, says child death reviews can be an important learning tool.
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