At least 11 children known to the Department of Social Development died in 2022, according to figures provided by the province.
But a committee set up to study the deaths of children in New Brunswick hasn’t publicly reported on what happened to those children and whether any lessons can be learned from their deaths.
The role of the child death review committee is to do a comprehensive review of the death of anyone 18 or under that was reported to a New Brunswick coroner, according to the committee’s terms of reference.
The goal is to try “to understand how and why children die” and to improve the health
