[1] Maclean's described it as "Quebec’s anglophone child welfare agency", while the Direction de la protection de la jeunesse [fr] (DPJ) has that function for French-speaking families.

[3] Batshaw was created in 1992 as a non-profit organization, used as a government agency to help children and their families.

[4] In 2021, it announced it would begin providing Inuktitut language materials in its facilities.

Manuel Batshaw was in the Canadian Armed Forces before he started working in the Social Service network.

A notable chain of group homes run by Batshaw is the Shawbridge Boys' Farm in the Laurentians, 75 kilometers north of Montreal.