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Expenditure Estimates for the Ministry of Children and Youth Services (2017-18)
The 2017-2018 Expenditure Estimates set out details of the operating and capital spending requirements of the Ministry of Children and Youth Services for the fiscal year commencing April 1, 2017.
Restated total operating expense ($4,369,258,414)
$4,306,237,616
Ministry Total operating and capital including consolidation and other adjustments (not including assets: money squirreled away for a rainy day)
Total operating expense to be voted:
$4,355,514,000
$107,859,900
$4,291,874,285
$4,463,373,900
https://www.ontario.ca/page/expenditure-estimates-ministry-children-and-youth-services-2017-18#section-2
COULD BASIC INCOME KEEP FAMILIES TOGETHER WHEN CHILD POACHING FUNDING PREDATORS COME A KNOCKIN'?
Minister MacLeod’s announcement to cut social assistance rates by 1.5 per cent will take approximately $150 million out of the hands of people who are among the most vulnerable in Ontario.
“People on social assistance continue to live well below the poverty line and would have used the additional much-needed money to pay for basic necessities,” says Jackie Esmonde, Staff Lawyer at the Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC).
Important reforms to meet the unique needs of Indigenous communities have also been put on hold. Ending these changes will have a very negative impact on people experiencing the deepest poverty in our province and demonstrates a profound disrespect for the needs of Indigenous people in Ontario.
Minister MacLeod also cut or cancelled other positive changes that were slated for this fall, including:
Reducing the amount of money that people on Ontario Works (OW) and Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) can keep in their pockets while working.
Cuts to other allowances such as the guide dog benefit for people with vision impairments and the advanced age allowance for people who are older.
Cancellation of a change to the definition of “spouse” from three months co-habitation to three years.
Cancellation of full basic benefits to people who get housing and food from the same provider, including many people living with disabilities.
Cancellation of increased support to people living in Northern Ontario, where daily living costs are higher.
http://incomesecurity.org/policy-advocacy/ontarios-cuts-to-social-assistance-will-hurt-the-most-vulnerable/#.W2GzBNxXpj8.twitter
A backgrounder about the changes that have been cancelled is available here:
http://incomesecurity.org/public-education/important-changes-coming-to-ow-and-odsp-changements-importants-aux-programmes-dot-et-du-posph/.
Does Doug Ford's inquiry into liberal spending include the tens of billions of dollars the liberals justified giving to the CAS with a fraudulent drug test?
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/former-b-c-premier-will-lead-doug-fords-independent-inquiry-into-liberals-past-spending-in-ontario
What Is Ontario’s Basic Income Pilot Project?
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/07/30/what-is-ontario-s-basic-income-pilot-project_a_23492670/
PC government says Ontario’s basic income pilot project is ‘failing’
By Shawn Jeffords The Canadian Press.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4376849/basic-income-pilot-end-date-ontario/
PC's plan to scrap Ontario basic income pilot project called 'shameful' by NDP leader.
Planned 3% increase to welfare and disability support to be cut in half
CBC News · Posted: Jul 31, 2018 2:30 PM ET | Last Updated: July 31.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/lisa-macleod-announcement-1.4768626
Basic income advocates say pilot program was not 'failing'
City's director of Human Services says he saw no evidence the basic income program was 'failing' NEWS Aug 23, 2018 by Mary Riley.
https://www.mykawartha.com/news-story/8845108-basic-income-advocates-say-pilot-program-was-not-failing-/
Federal government urged to save Ontario’s basic-income pilot project
BILL CURRY AND RACHELLE YOUNGLAI
OTTAWA AND TORONTO PUBLISHED AUGUST 1, 2018.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-trudeau-government-urged-to-save-ontarios-basic-income-pilot-project/
IF YOU TAKE 150 MILLION AWAY FROM THE POOR YOU'LL ONLY HAVE TO GIVE THE CAS ANOTHER 500 MILLION A YEAR TO "SAVE THE CHILDREN" FROM MALTREATMENT BY OMISSION..
COULD BASIC INCOME KEEP FAMILIES TOGETHER AND SAVE MORE MONEY THAN THE CAS SPENDS EVERY YEAR?
IT SURE LOOKS LIKE IT
FUNDING SHORTFALL OR MISAPPROPRIATED FUNDING ?
Either way, it was bad news for underprivileged Canadians in Ontario who are at the highest risk of unwarranted intervention by scheming child poaching CAS funding predators..
March 14, 2013
In leaked memo, Peel CAS staff asked to keep cases open to retain funding due to a $67 million dollar province wide funding shortfall . The memo was signed by seven senior managers, using their first names only. One had her full name listed. Hmmm, I wonder who could be evil enough to sign her full name???
March 15, 2013
Province in talks with Peel Children’s Aid Society over strategies to defraud the tax payers in leaked memo and Ontario's Liberal government agrees to pay for CAS advertising campaign to help the society meet their funding goals... Report any suspicion equals any excuse will do.
Though the CAS claimed the purpose of the memo wasn't to inflate numbers, between 2011 and 2013 the 46 (at the time) separate societies investigated a combined total of 42 000 families or about 14 000 investigations per year, in 2014 - after the Peel Memo Leak - and launching a new government funded advertising campaign and reopening 20 000 previously closed files the societies investigated a combined total of over 82 000 families to meet their funding goals in that one year as reported by the Toronto Star.
Mary Ballantyne, CEO of OACAS said there was more context going into the decision making process than met the eye..
SO, WHAT HAPPENS THE NEXT TIME THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY COMES UP SHORT?
"No one should be surprised that agencies like CAS are taking extreme steps to ensure they meet their funding goals" said Carrie Lynn Poole-Cotnam, Chair of the CUPE Ontario Social Services sector.
Conservative children’s services critic Jane McKenna said the memo’s optics are “terrible” and “reflect poorly on not just the CAS but also Wynne and the Liberal government, which bears ultimate responsibility for child welfare in Ontario.” She then went on to say, “These are desperate people doing desperate things.”
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/03/14/in_leaked_memo_peel_cas_staff_asked_to_keep_cases_open_to_retain_funding.html
“Harmful Impacts” is the title of the commission report written by the Honourable Judith C. Beaman after two years of study. After reading it, “harmful” seems almost to be putting it lightly. The 56 cases the commission examined in which the flawed Motherisk tests, administered by SickKids Hospital between 2005 and 2015, were determined to have a “substantial impact” on the decisions of child protection agencies, led to children being permanently removed from their families.
The Motherisk report points to the larger problem that allowed the the CAS's use of the Motherisk lab to cause so much damage: the system unfairly targets poor families — especially, the report details, Indigenous and racialized families; the legal deck is stacked against those families, denying them due process to a staggering degree; and authorities are too quick to take children from their parents in the absence of evidence of abuse or neglect.
56 cases?
Out of the over 35 000 tests did any of tests result in a closed file or did they all result in ongoing funding for the CAS?
Removal from the home — permanent removal — is not supposed to be a move taken lightly. The report goes over the legal principles, laying out that it should be a last resort. It is the “capital punishment” of child protection, according to one citation, absolutely devastating to parents, and for children it is “often the beginning of a life sentence.”
Yet in the cases reviewed here, it is imposed, often apparently cavalierly and without even a trial, for reasons that amount to a punishment for being poor.
Rich parents who are alcoholics, after all, are not having their children taken from them after a single relapse. Few rich parents, in fact, are having their children taken from them at all.
Lives were ruined. Parents’ lives, and quite possibly children’s lives. Siblings and grandparents and other family members’ lives, too. Irreversibly ruined. And in many cases, it seems this was allowed to happen primarily because people were poor.
It is hard to think of anything more harmful than that.
The Motherisk lab was shut down in 2015 — too long after the problems with it were known, exposed in part due to the reporting of my Star colleague Rachel Mendleson, after far too much damage was done. But reading the report, it becomes clear that shutting down the lab solves only one small part of the problem. The entire system needs to be overhauled.
The problems detailed in the report’s 278 pages are too numerous to go into in detail. They document the many problems with the SickKids lab’s testing and with the child protection system’s overreliance on those results. The hair testing process produced inconsistent and untrustworthy results despite being perceived as carrying the unimpeachable weight of scientific authority. That much we pretty much knew because of earlier reporting, though the detailed breakdown of it and the specific case references make the injustice of it sickeningly vivid.
Chris Selley: Ontario's stolen children still getting a raw deal as province deals with Motherisk scandal.
UNACKNOWLEDGED BY ALL PARTIES..
There’s not much worse governments can do to people than take their children away, but the pure horror of it does not seem to have pervaded the public conscience.
Not one charity, church or person has come forward to offer any relief to the many victims traumatized by the treatment they received at the hands of their fellow Canadians citizens and no apologizes offered to anyone but gay couples waiting to adopt..
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/chris-selley-ontarios-stolen-children-still-getting-a-raw-deal-as-province-deals-with-motherisk-scandal
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/chris-selley-motherisk-is-the-ontario-liberals-unacknowledged-and-worst-scandal
In the US paediatric and child trauma experts are sounding the alarm that wrongfully separating children from their parents can cause serious physical and psychological damage.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44528900
Report shines light on poverty’s role on kids in CAS system.
The effect of provincial policies on struggling families was especially apparent in the late 1990s, when the Conservative government slashed welfare payments and social service funding while at the same time, it introduced in child protection the notion of maltreatment by “omission,” including not having enough food in the home and this after giving the society what amounted to an unlimited funding scheme. The conservatives also failed to enforce the social worker registration legislation, a trend that continued under the liberals. The number of children taken into care spiked.
“The ministry has been pretty clear with us that advocacy is not part of our mandate,” Goodman said speaking for the society. “It’s not like they’re asking for the (poverty) data. They’re not.” Goodman then when on to suggest the silence suited the government more than the silence suited the society's funding goals.
When Deborah Goodman, a professor at the University of Toronto’s faculty of social work and a senior official with the Ontario Children’s Aid Society of Toronto said, "these families struggle to put food on the table, they struggle to keep a roof over their heads and the reason children’s aid is in their lives is because they’re under a lot of stress that affects their parenting."
Does she really think using police to enforce warrant-less fishing trips, then threatening to apprehend children if parents don't sign consents forms, submit to various forms of testing and then dragging them through a secret court system that's been stacked against them for decades is helping children and families?
By SANDRO CONTENTA AND JIM RANKIN
Mon., Aug. 15, 2016.
https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/08/15/report-shines-light-on-povertys-role-on-kids-in-cas-system.html
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