What happens when you call the CAS?
Calls are answered by trained unregistered child protection social workers.
These ‘front-line’ workers are part customer service rep, part counselor, part funding coordinator and their role is to listen carefully to help meet the agency's funding goals. There are several teams who work together to provide services 24/7 in your communities.
When you call, you will be asked questions to help us determine how much support a family may need. Sometimes we can provide assistance over the phone. Other times, we will recommend that one of our workers set up a time to visit with a family to see if there are any other ways we can help or an induction worker may visit a family right away based on the nature and severity of the concern without a warrant with police assistance to intimidate parents and bully their way in to conduct a surprise search of the home while threatening to remove any children if the parents fail to cooperate and sign consent forms, service agreements and submit to various forms testing. Asking for a second opinion is asking to be taken to the Ontario family courts.
Motherisk Commission calls for sweeping changes to child protection system.
WE DON'T TRUST THE GOVERNMENT WITHOUT OVERSIGHT, TRANSPARENCY LAWS OR LET THEM USE SECRET COURTS BUT YET SOMEHOW THE ONTARIO GOVERNMENT HAS GIVEN THAT POWER TO THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY.. A PRIVATELY OPERATED MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR NON PROFIT EXTENSION OF THE GOVERNMENT WHO REFUSES TO LET ANYONE HAVE OVERSIGHT OF THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY. HMMM.
TIME TO FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO EVALUATE AND REFER REPORTS THAT MEET REASONABLE GROUNDS TO WHOEVER TAKES OVER THE CHILD WELFARE ROLE WHOSE FUNDING IS COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT OF WHOEVER TAKES OVER
TIME FOR THE CAS TO STOP USING CHILDREN LIKE HUMAN SHIELDS TO HIDE THE NASTY THINGS THEY DO
NO MORE UNDOCUMENTED UNSUPERVISED INTERVIEWS WITH CHILDREN OR PARENTS (CHILDREN CAN BE MANIPULATED JUST AS EASILY BY AN UNSCRUPULOUS CHILD POACHING FUNDING PREDATOR AS THE PARENTS CAN BE THREATEN AND BULLIED)
NO MORE UNDOCUMENTED UNSUPERVISED INTERVIEWS WITH CHILDREN OR PARENTS (CHILDREN CAN BE MANIPULATED JUST AS EASILY BY AN UNSCRUPULOUS CHILD POACHING FUNDING PREDATOR AS THE PARENTS CAN BE THREATEN AND BULLIED)
Are schools really the best place for unqualified unregister front-line workers to secretly interrogate young children?
Leading questions are intended to lead people to answer questions in a specific way based on how they’re phrased. Often they contain information that they want confirmed rather than a question that tries to get at the true answer.
Loaded questions are similar to leading questions in that they subtly (or not so subtly) push the user toward a particular response. The defining feature of this question type is the assumption about the respondent that is included implicitly in the question.
WORKERS MUST WEAR BODY-CAMS ANYTIME THEY ARE INTERACTING WITH PARENTS OR CHILDREN AND RECORD ALL OFFICE VISITS
OVER TWO HUNDRED WAYS THEY BENT RULES SET OUT IN THE CONSTITUTION AND THE CHARTER OF RIGHTS.
OVER TWO HUNDRED WAYS THEY BENT RULES SET OUT IN THE CONSTITUTION AND THE CHARTER OF RIGHTS.
TIME FOR THE CAS TO COOPERATE WITH THE OMBUDSMAN
TIME TO FOR THE CAS TO COOPERATE WITH THE PRIVACY COMMISSIONER
TIME TO FOR THE CAS TO COOPERATE WITH THE CHILD ADVOCATE
TIME FOR THE CAS TO COOPERATE WITH THE COLLEGE OF SOCIAL WORK
TIME FOR THE CAS TO COOPERATE WITH THE COLLEGE OF SOCIAL WORK
NO MORE SECRET COURTS UNLESS REQUESTED BY THE ACCUSED
NO MORE BYPASSING THE NEED FOR A WARRANT WHEN INVOLVING THE POLICE
NO MORE ENTERING SCHOOLS WITHOUT WARRANTS
NO MORE BYPASSING ANY PROCEDURAL SAFEGUARDS GUARANTIED BY THE CONSTITUTION, CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL JUSTICE WITHOUT SHOWING JUST CAUSE WITH SOMETHING MORE THAN A SWORN AFFIDAVIT AND ANONYMOUS WITNESSES.
NO MORE SECRET INTERNAL COMPLAINT PROCESSES OVERSEEN BY THE GOVERNMENT ALONE
HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS TAKING OF THEIR LANYARDS AND PUTTING ON THEIR UNIONS TO FIGHT AGAINST PROFESSIONAL REGULATIONS?
HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS TAKING OF THEIR LANYARDS AND PUTTING ON THEIR UNIONS TO FIGHT AGAINST PROFESSIONAL REGULATIONS?
Is all the alleged good work the CAS claims to be doing a good enough reason to forget about the children and parents they've harmed, even one?
NO MORE UNSUPPORTED SWORN AFFIDAVITS OR EVIDENCE BASED ON ENTIRELY AGENCY CREATED DOCUMENTS
JUST BECAUSE CHILD WELFARE IS AN UNFORTUNATE NECESSITY DOESN'T MEAN WE NEED THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY
In 2015 Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne proclaimed herself ready to do whatever it takes to fix the children's aid societies mess - except require the society to obey the social worker registration act or amalgamate the 47 CAS's, a key recommendation from the Jeffrey Baldwin inquest, or launch an investigation into the conduct of the frontline workers or the policies and practices of the management.
“If we could fix what is ailing the child protection system, child welfare system in this province, by starting from scratch and blowing up what exists — I would be willing to do that, because one child’s life would be worth changing the administrative structures.
But, just not yet. The premier wanted more evidence before she would act.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/12/22/premier-ponders-blowing-up-our-cas-mess-cohn.html
"In leaked memo, Peel CAS staff asked to keep cases open to retain funding." 2013.
The memo was signed by seven senior managers, using their first names only. One had her full name listed. She is away for the week and could not be reached for comment.
Province-wide in 2013, children’s aid societies were overbuget $40-million which was later report to have been $67 million dollars and they were carrying a historic debt of $33 million, in what Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies referred to as a funding shortfall.
March is the end of the fiscal year for the agency and in the memo staff are instructed to complete as many investigations as possible (no fewer than 1,000), transfer as many cases as possible to “ongoing services,” and not close any ongoing cases during March. (ONGOING FAMILY COURT AND SUPERVISION ORDERS - OH MY. TURNING OUR COMMUNITIES INTO FREE RANGE PRISONS AND OUR HOMES INTO PRISON CELLS COMPLETE WITH RANDOM SEARCHES - OH MY!)
Between 2011 and 2013 the 46 separate societies at the time opened a combined total of 42 000 files or about 14 000 files per year, in 2014 - after the Peel Memo Leak - and launching a new government funded advertising campaign and after reopening 20 000 previously closed files the societies opened a combined total of over 82 000 files to meet their funding goals as reported by the Toronto Star.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/03/14/in_leaked_memo_peel_cas_staff_asked_to_keep_cases_open_to_retain_funding.html
Impoverished: 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 number of children taken into care spiked as did their funding.
“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.
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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