S-212National Strategy for Children and Youth Act

What it does

• Requires the minister to develop a national strategy for children and youth in Canada.
• Requires the strategy to set goals, including ending child poverty, improving access to mental health services, raising living standards, and meeting listed children's, Indigenous and disability rights commitments.
• Requires the strategy to include measurable outcomes, evidence-based assessments, a plan for unmet goals, resource needs, public monitoring, complaint handling, updates for new needs, and parliamentary oversight.
• Requires the minister to consult children and youth, relevant federal, provincial and municipal officials, Indigenous governing bodies, and other stakeholders, using culturally safe and language-accessible consultations.
• Requires progress reports to Parliament every six months until the strategy is tabled within 24 months, then review reports every five years after that.