The Canadian Press The ministry that is supposed to be protecting British Columbia\u2019s kids made what the children\u2019s representative says was a \u201cmassive error,\u201d resulting in the torturous death of an 11-year-old boy at the hands of those who were approved to be his caregivers. The boy’s death is not an outlier, Jennifer Charlesworth said in her latest report released Tuesday, but rather an example of ways the child welfare system has let down children and families in B.C. and across Canada, despite decades of reports making hundreds of recommendations for change. “And yet here we are again \u2014 reviewing the death of an innocent young child and asking the same questions that have been asked for years: How did the systems that are intended to help children and families… <\/p>\n
The Canadian Press The ministry that is supposed to be protecting British Columbia\u2019s kids made what the children\u2019s representative says was a \u201cmassive error,\u201d resulting in the torturous death of an 11-year-old boy at the hands of those who were approved to be his caregivers. The boy’s death is not an outlier, Jennifer Charlesworth said in her latest report released Tuesday, but rather an example of ways the child welfare system has let down children and families in B.C. and across Canada, despite decades of reports making hundreds of recommendations for change. “And yet here we are again \u2014 reviewing the death of an innocent young child and asking the same questions that have been asked for years: How did the systems that are intended to help children and families... <\/p>\n