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A breach of trust

24 Feb 2009

The Children’s Advocate was advised by the Department, at the regional level, that the situation was temporary and that both short and medium-term plans were in place to address the foster home overcrowding issue.5 In subsequent months, the Children’s Advocate did not observe improvement to the foster home overcrowding situation in Saskatoon and raised the issue with the then, Deputy Minister of C [...] Where the court finds a child in need of protection, Section 37(1)(b) allows the court to make an order that the child “be placed in the custody of a person having a sufficient interest in the child.” Under this section, the child is not in the custody of the Minister by order or agreement and does not have a legal status with the department. [...] Sections 91 and 92, Part VI of The Constitution Act, 1867, distributes legislative powers between the Parliament of Canada and the legislatures of the provinces.24 The head of power concerning child welfare matters has thus been captured under the heading of “property and civil rights” and “all matters of a local and private nature,” which is enumerated under Section 92(13), the exclusive power of [...] Saskatchewan Children’s Advocate 21 A Breach of Trust: An Investigation Into Foster Home Overcrowding in the Saskatoon Service Centre An average of 7.6 children were in foster care in each of these homes; however, CAO investigators found that the number of children placed in each of the overcrowded non-therapeutic foster homes at the time of the investigation ranged from five to as high as 15, and [...] Both the Ministry and foster parents must ensure that the contractual obligations of the Agreement are met.59 In each of the 13 overcrowded foster home files reviewed by the Children’s Advocate Office, not only was the Ministry policy on the maximum number of four children placed in any home exceeded, the assessed capacity of the foster home was also disregarded and the Agreement for Foster Care w
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Authors

Bernstein, Marvin M

Pages
100
Published in
Canada

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