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Choose Children

June 01, 2017 at 12:57pm

Every day in British Columbia, vulnerable children, youth, and families are falling through the cracks of an under-resourced and over-stretched child welfare system. The safety and wellbeing of vulnerable children and families is being compromised because the B.C. government is not committing the resources required to protect them, with desperately tragic consequences.  

Services and supports for vulnerable children, youth, and families are being regularly compromised by severe staffing shortages, excessive caseloads, and dangerous occupational health and safety risks. Quite simply, there are neither enough resources, nor enough staff; and the volume of work—measured by caseloads—are intolerable.

The campaign draws attention to the systemic failures in the province’s child welfare system by giving a voice to the workers on the frontlines of B.C.’s children, youth, and family services, including BCGEU members working the Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation (MSDSI), the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD), and community-based social service agencies.

 

RESOURCES

Choose Children report

The Choose Children report is meant to give voice to BCGEU child, youth and family workers' concerns. It says that child, youth and family workers face massive caseloads, severe staffing shortages and a lack of resources.  The report was written using BCGEU members' inpuit input, including 3,418 survey responses and the face to face community meetings with 412 workers in 14 communities.

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