News - Children

The Canada Border Services Agency has announced that they will be working on a pilot project in Manitoba with the Canadian Centre for Child Protection to enhance officer knowledge and training for identifying situations involving missing, sexually abused and exploited children.

The Manitoba government has launched Starting Early, Starting Strong, a five-year plan that charts a course for early childhood development.

Following a review of private firms caring for children in hotels, the Manitoba government has assigned highly trained department staff to directly monitor contract workers and has begun taking steps to improve care while continuing to reduce reliance on hotels as temporary emergency shelters.

On June 20, 2014, St-Pierre-Jolys RCMP received a report of a man in a vehicle approaching two male youths while they were riding their bikes in Iles des Chenes, Manitoba.

The Manitoba government is strengthening its partnership with the Child Nutrition Council of Manitoba (CNCM) by providing new funding to help support more nutrition programs for school-aged children across the province.

Children and youth across Manitoba will soon ride their bicycles, wearing new bike helmets purchased as part of the province’s Low-Cost Bike Helmet Initiative.

The province will build on its ongoing commitment to reduce smoking rates and protect the health of Manitobans by introducing proposed amendments to the Non-Smokers Health Protection Act that would ban the sale of flavoured tobacco products, including cigars and cigarettes, marketed to children.

On January 30, 2014, RCMP received a significant increase in complaints regarding a spambot reaching out to users via the messaging app Kik.

The Manitoba government has unveiled a new website for parent-friendly curricula to help parents help their children thrive in school.

The Manitoba government is strengthening its partnership with the Canadian Centre for Child Protection to provide new programs and services that will target cyberbullying.