The Representative for Children and Youth’s latest annual report, dated Sept. 12, 2025, sets out data and concerns from the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025. It says the government agreed to 16 recommendations made in the previous annual report. They include improving child-care access, school attendance and graduation reporting, child-protection data, dental and pediatric care, a youth alcohol-and-drug awareness campaign, a government-wide child-abuse strategy and housing security. Agreement is not the same as implementation: the report says 17 earlier systemic recommendations were still being monitored at year-end. ᓇᑭᓐᖔᖅᓯᒪᓂᖏᑦ↗

The report says the Department of Family Services did not complete, within the requested 90 days, a comprehensive review of one unnamed community Family Wellness office after concerns were raised about no local worker, unanswered calls and a lack of follow-up. The department cited insufficient staffing. It said it intended to conduct a territory-wide file audit in 2025–26, but the annual report does not confirm that audit was completed. ᓇᑭᓐᖔᖅᓯᒪᓂᖏᑦ↗

The Legislative Assembly’s Standing Committee on Oversight of Government Operations and Public Accounts has announced televised hearings from Sept. 23 to Oct. 1, 2026, on recent annual reports from independent officers, including the Representative for Children and Youth. Senior Government of Nunavut officials are also scheduled to appear. ᓇᑭᓐᖔᖅᓯᒪᓂᖏᑦ↗

The report records 1,573 referrals to Family Services in 2024–25, including 709 categorized as neglect and 561 as emotional harm. It also records 2,253 overcrowded public-housing units across Nunavut, including 1,061 in the Qikiqtaaluk region. These are territory-wide figures, not counts of individual children or households. ᓇᑭᓐᖔᖅᓯᒪᓂᖏᑦ↗

For Iqaluit, the office worked on 36 of 68 new individual advocacy cases listed by region. Across the territory, it worked on 90 individual cases, including 28 carried over from earlier years, and closed 47. The office says lack of housing left six of its 12 staff positions filled as of March 31, 2025; several vacant positions had been waiting for housing allocations for more than two years. ᓇᑭᓐᖔᖅᓯᒪᓂᖏᑦ↗

The immediate public accountability date is Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, when the Assembly committee’s televised hearings begin at 1:30 p.m. The Assembly has not published a hearing-day schedule identifying when the Representative for Children and Youth or particular departments will appear. The hearings can test what departments have done since the report’s March 31, 2025 reporting cutoff, including whether the promised territory-wide Family Services file audit occurred. ᓇᑭᓐᖔᖅᓯᒪᓂᖏᑦ↗

The report says 134 of 395 critical-injury reports logged by Family Services qualified for reporting to the Representative’s office. Of those, 80 involved suicide attempts or suicidal ideation. The Chief Coroner reported 25 deaths of young Nunavummiut during 2024–25, including 11 classified as suicides; the Representative says it will review all 11 cases. These figures describe reported cases and classifications in the 2024–25 period, not a current 2026 count. ᓇᑭᓐᖔᖅᓯᒪᓂᖏᑦ↗

The office also says it had seven systemic reviews in progress at year-end. They included reviews of out-of-territory placements, young people sent outside Nunavut for mental-health treatment, the denial of mental-health services for young people with documented diagnoses, discharge planning after treatment, adoption processes and the Family Wellness reporting structure. ᓇᑭᓐᖔᖅᓯᒪᓂᖏᑦ↗