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| Hon. Barry Penner, Att Gen |
The government website page for the Ministry of the Attorney General contains this very imported page entitled
Child Protection Mediation Program. In the post below I am quoting that page in its entirety and without comment from me. This is the
mediation option of which the Attorney General’s Office wants you to be aware.
What I want to know after you have read this, is, whether you are a social worker or a parent, has this worked for you?
Ministry
of Attorney General
Child
Protection Mediation Program
Sometimes parents or other people who are responsible for the care of a
child disagree with child welfare workers in the Ministry of Children and
Family Development (MCFD) or delegated Aboriginal child and family service
agency (DAA) about a child’s safety and well-being. Child protection mediation
is a collaborative way to reach agreement on the best plan for a child’s safety
with the help of a specially trained, impartial person called a mediator.
Mediators do not take sides, nor do they make decisions or recommendations.
Instead, they encourage people to focus on common interests and work towards a
mutually acceptable solution that is focused on the child’s needs.
Mediation is a process which brings together the parents, child welfare
workers and others in a respectful way to talk about everyone’s interests and
seek to understand each other through sharing feelings, ideas, concerns and
potential solutions for the child.
The Ministry of Attorney General (MAG) and the Ministry of Children and
Family Development (MCFD) established the Child Protection Mediation Program in
October 1997. MAG and MCFD administer the program. MAG’s Child Protection
Mediation Program (CPMP) contracts for mediation services with specially
qualified private sector mediators.
