BC's Beleaguered Child Protectors: Social workers say bulging caseloads, funding cuts and churn at the top are putting kids at risk
By Katie Hyslop
11 May 2010
TheTyee.ca

…. Who cares about kids?

One of the reasons the government can get away with underfunding and reshuffling MCFD, Sullivan says, is because it's a service that doesn't have a large amount of political or public support.

"The stakeholders are pretty beleaguered people, who at the point at which government assistance is made available is a very residual and intrusive form of assistance, and therefore not popular and not well received," he says.

Many of the kids in care now were born to parents who also grew up in the province's child protection system….

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