B.C. government has ignored 89 per cent of the children and youth representative\u0027s recommendations over the past five years. Shame on it.
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Had the government taken to heart the recommendations of B.C.’s representative for children and youth, at the very least some progress would have been made. But it has not. Nor has the government made much progress on any of Jennifer Charlesworth’s 63 recommendations made in 10 reports over the past five years.Article content
None of her 14 calls for engagement with First Nations, Métis and Inuit organizations were heeded, even though the government is a signatory to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People that requires it.There are “stalled strategies and delayed frameworks” with many recommendations stuck in what government officials described to Charlesworth as the “pre-planning stage”. Apparently, the dictionary of bureaucratese fails to recognize that term’s redundancy.
“There appears to be a lack of resources for policy makers to address both long-term, systemic change, alongside urgent, critical issues impacting families in B.C.,” the representative wrote in a
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