Article by
Ray Ferris. (Ray
Ferris, my friend and fellow advocate is an expert on child
protection and specifically the work of the Ministry of Children and Families
in British Columbia (MCFD). He is the author of 'The Art of Child Protection." Ray reissued this information now, sent to me September 27th, 2017-09-27. Ron Unruh).
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS FOR CHILD PROTECTION.
This is
based on material I wrote at the request of some NDP members of the legislative
assembly for the election of 2009.
Introduction.
The British Seebohm Commission of the 1960s noted that there were many problems of
a non-administrative nature in the British social services and they could not
be solved by administrative changes. This is important to remember because there
have been many serious problems in the child protection services of British
Columbia, but the repeated attempts at solving them have only been through
administrative and legal devices, which have always failed. Indeed it could be
argued that they have sometimes made the situation worse.
