B.C. Human Rights Tribunal will hear Indigenous mother’s case against child-welfare agency
This is a ‘groundbreaking’ decision, lawyer says.
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B.C. journalists are working together to improve child-welfare reporting
This week we published the first of many collaborative, in-depth stories to come examining this complex system.
The child-welfare system’s full of fed-up women — and it’s no wonder
Ministry audits show foster kids and vulnerable families are getting short shrift.
B.C. government is failing vulnerable kids and families, according to its own audits
Investigation reveals ministry isn't meeting critical standards. ‘This should be a four-alarm fire,’ social work professor says.
We’ve made the data from our child welfare audit investigation public
Tell us how you think the Ministry of Children and Family Development is doing.
B.C. judge breaks with convention in Indigenous child-protection case
Mom suggests a more collaborative approach including Elders, and judge accepts.
Three years later, this mom’s still fighting to get her kids out of care
Being separated from her daughters “never gets easier,” says Justine, whose trial resumes on April 1.
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‘Our women are being hunted and killed’
Indigenous women have led the Women's Memorial March in Vancouver for 28 years to grieve and call for justice.