December 2019

Data Sources to Support Community Safety and Well-Being (CSWB) Planning

Provincial Data Sources

• Ontario Government's Open Data Catalogue includes various data on existing services and health/wellness indicators available at local, regional and/or provincial levels (e.g., Early Development Instrument, Ontario Victim Services, Crime Severity, Violent/Property Crime, etc.): ontario.ca/page/open-government

Education

• School Board Progress Reports with data on ten (10) education indicators available by school board: app.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/bpr/index.html

• Suspension/Expulsion Rates available by school board: edu.gov.on.ca/eng/safeschools/statistics.html

Community and Social Services

• Children's Aid Societies (CAS) data, including number of children in care, referrals, and families served. Data is available for each CAS site location, regional and provincial level. Contact your Regional Office to obtain local data. For the appropriate Regional Office, please visit: mcss.gov.on.ca/en/mcss/regionalMap/regional.aspx

• CAS data on five performance indicators that reflect the safety, permanency and well-being of children and youth in care. Data is available for each CAS site location, regional and provincial level: children.gov.on.ca/htdocs/English/professionals/childwelfare/societies/publicreporting.aspx

• Poverty Reduction Strategy Annual Report (2018) includes data on eleven (11) poverty indicators at the provincial level: ontario.ca/page/poverty-reduction-strategy-annual-report-2018

• Towards a Better Understanding of NEET Youth in Ontario Report (2018) provides an analysis of data to estimate the number, characteristics, and labour market status of youth not in education, employment or training (NEET) available at the provincial and census metropolitan area level: blueprint-ade.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/NEET-Youth-Research-Initiative.pdf

• Violence Against Women (VAW) Service Provider Survey highlights feedback on service delivery in the VAW sector available at the regional and provincial levels. For data, please email REU@ontario.ca

• Employment Ontario Geo-Hub contains datasets related to social assistance, including data on Ontario Works (OW) and Ontario Disability Support Program recipients. Some datasets are available by Consolidated Municipal Service Manager or District Social Services Administration Board: eo-geohub.com

Justice

• Risk-driven Tracking Database (RTD): Communities that have been on-boarded to the RTD have access to their own local data. For a copy of the RTD Annual Reports (which outlines regional and provincial data), please email SafetyPlanning@ontario.ca

• Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Community Satisfaction Survey: Contact your local Detachment Commander for local detachment data. 2018 provincial report available online: opp.ca/tms/entrydata.php?fnc=3&_id=5afae17aaf4f9348be57b7c4

• OPP Statistical Crime and Traffic data: Contact your local Detachment Commander for local detachment data. 2018 provincial report available online: opp.ca/index.php?&lng=en&id=115&entryid=5d0bdebf241f6e18586f0913

• Ontario Court of Justice Criminal Justice Modernization Committee Dashboard outlines statistical information for various types of metrics, including offence-based statistics available at local court, regional and provincial levels: ontariocourts.ca/ocj/stats-crim-mod

• Ontario Court of Justice Criminal Court Offence-Based Statistics outlines the number of new criminal cases filed available at local court, regional and provincial levels: ontariocourts.ca/ocj/stats-crim

• Inmate Data, including reviews of inmates in segregation with possible mental health conditions available at the institutional and regional levels: mcscs.jus.gov.on.ca/english/Corrections/JahnSettlement/CSDatainmatesOntario.html

Health

• Health data: For regional or provincial level health data/requests, please email IMsupport@ontario.ca

Ministry of the Solicitor General