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Children Involved with the Ministry - Statistics Fatalities of children who received services under the Child, Family and Community Service Act (including voluntary support services) within the past 12 months**.
Fatalities of Children & Youth in Care
These statistics include Community Living British Columbia (CLBC) statistics. Community Living British Columbia became a provincial Crown agency on July 1, 2005. *In the "Undetermined" category, "open" indicates a case is still under investigation by the coroner; "closed" indicates the coroner's investigation is complete and that the death which, because of insufficient evidence or inability to otherwise determine, cannot reasonably be classified as natural, accidental, suicide or homicide. **These statistics pertain to children who have received services under the Child, Family and Community Service Act within the past 12 months. These children are not children in care. Recipients of services provided under the Act in the past 12 months include:
For information concerning what happens when a child in care of the ministry dies please see the Accountability, Case Review Summary Reports web page. As of October, 2007, the BC Coroner's Service is responsible for the investigation of all child deaths. The Ministry confirms child fatality categories with the BC Coroner's Office as relevant. The category of a fatality may change as a death is investigated. Where the categorization of fatality types has changed since the last posting, this is the result of the Ministry’s ongoing process of updating the fatality categories to mirror updates by the BC Coroner's Service. Classification of Death NATURAL: Death primarily resulting from a disease of the body and not resulting secondarily from injuries or abnormal environmental factors. ACCIDENT: Death due to unintentional or unexpected injury. It includes death resulting from complications reasonably attributed to the injury. SUICIDE: Death resulting from self-inflicted injury, with intent to cause death. HOMICIDE: Death due to injury intentionally inflicted by the action of another person. Homicide is a neutral term that does not imply fault or blame. UNDETERMINED: Death which, because of insufficient evidence or inability to otherwise determine, cannot reasonably be classified as natural, accidental, suicide or homicide. Links
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