Duty to Protect? The Troubling Pattern of Legislative Noncompliance and Missed Police Involvement in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Sector
Vivian Stamatopoulos, Shannon Vettor, Emily Hladkowicz · 2026
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Description
Vivian Stamatopoulos, Shannon Vettor, and Emily Hladkowicz present a 2026 study of whether Ontario long term care homes call the police when the law says they must. A 2021 provincial act orders homes to notify police at once of alleged abuse, neglect, or other possible crimes. Advocates suspected the duty was often skipped.
The team mined public inspection reports from 2024 for a random fifth of the province's homes, 457 reports in all. Keyword searches pulled 193 reports touching abuse, neglect, or police. A thematic read then traced how homes documented harm, whether police were in fact called, and how regulators responded. The pattern they find is troubling, as the title signals.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Vivian Stamatopoulos, Shannon Vettor, Emily Hladkowicz |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |