CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES REVIEW BOARD
BETWEEN:
AB Applicant
-and-
Children's Aid Society of the District of Nipissing and Parry Sound Respondent
DECISION
Adjudicator: Tracy Foster Date: September 03, 2025 Citation: 2025 CFSRB 120 Indexed As: AB v Children's Aid Society of the District of Nipissing and Parry Sound (CYFSA s.120)
OVERVIEW
1This is an Application filed with the Child and Family Services Review Board (“CFSRB”) under section 120 of the Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2017, S.O. 2017, c.14, Sched.1 (the “Act”).
ISSUE
2The issue is:
a. Is the Application eligible for review by the CFSRB?
RESULT
3The CFSRB finds that the Application is not eligible for review.
ANALYSIS
4The Applicant is the director of the school of a child (the “Child”) named in the Application. The Applicant complains about services the Respondent provided or failed to provide to the Child and steps taken to remove the Child from her current caregivers to be placed in a foster home in a different community.
5At section 6 of the Application (where an applicant checks boxes to identify why they are applying to the CFSRB), the Applicant alleges that the Respondent did not give her a chance to be heard when she raised his concerns or when decisions that affected her interests were made, the Respondent did not give her reasons for decisions that affected her interests, and the Respondent did not follow its complaint review process or timelines.
6Subsection 120(1) of the Act states that, if a person has “a complaint in respect of a service sought or received from a society” and the complaint “relates to a matter described in subsection (4), the person who sought or received the service may decide” to make a complaint to either the society or the CFSRB.
7For a complaint to be eligible for review by the CFSRB under section 120 of the Act, an applicant must meet two threshold tests. First, an applicant must demonstrate that they have sought or received a service, as defined under subsection 2(1) of the Act, from a children’s aid society or Indigenous child and family well-being agency. Once that is established, then the CFSRB must determine whether the applicant’s complaint set out in their application relates to the service they sought or received.
8Although it appears that the Child is in receipt of services from the Respondent, there is no information in the Application that demonstrates that the Applicant has sought or received any service from the Respondent as defined in the Act.
9As the Application does not support that the Applicant has sought or received a service from the Respondent, it does not meet the first threshold test for eligibility under section 120(1) of the Act.
10For these reasons, the Application is ineligible for review by the CFSRB.
ORDER
11The Application is dismissed.
CONFIDENTIALITY ORDER
12Pursuant to Rules 9.3 and 9.4 of the CFSRB’s Rules of Procedure, parties and their representatives must not use, share, discuss or disclose any CFSRB documents or decisions or any other documents or information provided or used in this Application with anyone, including through the media or online. The CFSRB prohibits the use of any of this information for any purpose outside of the CFSRB’s proceedings, except with an order of the Court or the CFSRB, as appropriate.
Tracy Foster
Tracy Foster Member