Rapports et publications

This monitoring report follows the release of the Advocate’s landmark 2024 report, "What We All Want: A Review and an Urgent Proposal for Change in New Brunswick's Long Term Care System". The Advocate's Office asked the relevant authorities to report on the actions taken and the progress made. This report presents the recommendations along with the Advocate's comments and scoring.

Wake Up Call: Learning from the Education Budgeting Saga, examines the systemic failures in the 2025–26 provincial education budget process and the urgent need for reform within the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.

Part 5 of the 2024 How It All Broke series reveals how New Brunswick tracks budgets but not outcomes. Without social targets, departments meet fiscal goals while real problems worsen.

Part 4 of the 2024 How It All Broke series explains how New Brunswick measures compliance instead of results. By holding staff accountable for rules rather than outcomes, services fail to deliver meaningful improvements in people’s lives.

Part 3 of the 2024 How It All Broke series explains how New Brunswick budgets for activities and announcements instead of results. Without tying funding to outcomes, services remain under strain and effectiveness goes unmeasured.

Part 2 of the 2024 How It All Broke series shows how New Brunswick’s failure to plan for future workforce needs has left hospitals, schools, and social services short-staffed. By restricting training to control budgets, government created costly shortages that continue to harm services today.

Part 1 of the 2024 How It All Broke series explains why multiple social systems in New Brunswick—health care, education, child protection, and long-term care—are failing at the same time. It highlights how outdated budgeting and governance practices at the centre of government are driving today’s crises.

What I Wish I Knew: A Guide to Children’s Rights is written by Jazmyne McLaughlin and illustrated by Lexie Temple. It explains the rights of children and youth in New Brunswick in clear, accessible language. The book encourages young people to speak up, seek help, and remember they are never alone.

The Office of the New Brunswick Advocate has tabled its follow-up report to the Legislative Assembly on concerns raised about child welfare funding in the 2025–26 provincial budget. While government declined to reverse budget reductions, it accepted two key recommendations from the Advocate, clarifying that cost-control measures will target only high-cost cases and protecting other child welfare services from cuts. The report outlines new commitments to safeguard funding for vulnerable children, strengthen Integrated Service Delivery, and improve accountability.

This fund fosters vibrant communities by offering financial support to priority regional and local capital projects.

A Challenge Paper on civics education in New Brunswick.

A Challenge Paper on early years literacy in New Brunswick.