A roundtable discussion on deaths in provincial care |
Dr. Anny Sauvageau told a meeting on foster care that the province needs to create a specific committee of experts with the authority and resources to examine all child deaths.
She also says her office needs a broader mandate to examine not only the manner of death, but to propose ways to prevent similar tragedies.
She says while current fatality review hearings are held to make recommendations to prevent deaths of children in care, no one in government is tasked with checking to see if the recommendations are ever acted on. (more...)
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