Gladue Report Standards and Requirements:

• The goal of a Gladue Report is to help the judge make an appropriate sentence or bail hearing decision by thinking about the fact you are an Indigenous person with unique background factors. 
   

• A Gladue Report (with a practical plan), can increase public safety, reduce victimization, reduce re-offending and reduce the rates of Indigenous people in jails, as appropriate.

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According to conventions identified by case law and best practices, Gladue Reports must be:

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1. Neutral;

2. Unbiased;

3. Objective;

4. Accurate;

5. Fully researched;

6. Corroborated;

7. An individual's story;

8. Not used as an advocacy tool;

9. Identify individual, family and Nation's strengths;

10. Demonstrate the systemic & background factors relevant to the individual;

11. Contextualize risk through the lense of colonization;

12. Able to identify impacts of colonization to the individual, family, Nation;

13. Able to identify the healing and restorative justice principles through the lense of the individual's Indigenous worldview, where possible;

14. Demonstrate community based options and all available sanctions other than incarceration, as appropriate;

15. Contain a practical healing & restorative justice plan.

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