CAS is not anonymous

The rules on reporting concerns about children in Ontario say something about the person with the concerns must report their concerns themselves, yes?



A landlord in BC evicting a tenant in Ontario feels her right to make anonymous reports to the children's aid society from BC allegedly based on reports from a property manager were violated when her name was disclosed to the family. As child welfare law does not prohibit the recording of child welfare social workers, it does not prohibit the children's aid societies from releasing the names of persons making reports. Attempts to prevent recording and refusal to lease the names of accusers are corporate policies, not law.



Marketization of law making is a process that enables the elites to operate as market oriented firms by changing the legal environment in which they operate in.



When the people who have power in our society can have an influence in law making, the laws that get created will not maintain the appearance of equality and the elites in society can lobby and eventually criminalize (demonize) the poor.



The laws will start to benefit the big corporations (elites). This is well illustrated in Stan Cohen’s concept of the moral panic. A moral panic refers to the reaction of a group within society (elite) to the activities of a non elite group. The targeted group is seen as a threat to society also referred to as the folk devil.



Here we can see here how child welfare law is not applied equally to everyone. In this particular instance the child welfare law is benefiting the people with means.



Motherisk hair test evidence tossed out of Colorado court 2 decades before questions raised in Canada.



For more than two decades, Motherisk performed flawed hair-strand tests on thousands of vulnerable families across Canada, influencing decisions in child protection cases that separated parents from their children and sometimes children from their siblings. (CBC)



https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/motherisk-colorado-court-case-1.4364862



A Motherisk expert testified for the defence in a Colorado murder case. The judge mocked the lab’s processes. But the case remained virtually unknown in Ontario until now.



http://projects.thestar.com/motherisk/part-2/



Silenced, discredited, stripped of powers of moral appeal, and deprived of the interpersonal conditions necessary for maintaining self-respect and labeled "disgruntled" many people suffer from serious but subtle forms of oppression involving neither physical violence nor the use of law.



The GONE theory holds that Greed, Opportunity, Need and the Expectation of not being caught are what lay the groundwork for fraud. Greed and/or need provides the motive.



Judge rejects proposed class-action over Motherisk drug-testing scandal.



By RACHEL MENDLESON Investigative Reporter. Thu., Nov. 2, 2017.



https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/11/02/judge-rejects-proposed-class-action-over-motherisk-drug-testing-scandal.html



Parents lose second bid to launch class-action suit against Motherisk over flawed hair tests.



By RACHEL MENDLESON Investigative Reporter. Tues., Nov. 27, 2018.



Despite the “knee-jerk denials” of Motherisk experts and the Hospital for Sick Children, it wouldn’t be hard to prove in court that the lab’s drug and alcohol hair tests were broadly unreliable. However, establishing this fact wouldn't advance individual cases enough to make a national class-action lawsuit the right approach for thousands of families seeking compensation.



https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/2018/11/27/parents-lose-second-bid-to-launch-class-action-suit-against-motherisk-over-flawed-hair-tests.html



IN ONTARIO CANADA JUSTICE ISN'T BLIND ... IT'S AN ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT.



Comack states; “While the pivotal point in the rule of law is ‘equality of all before the law’, the provision of formal equality in the legal sphere does not extend to the economic sphere. Thus, the law maintains only the appearance of equality because, it never calls into question the unequal and exploitative relationship between capital and labour.” This statement implies that the law is in place to be neutral. Therefore, the law would apply equally to everyone,  including both  the working and elite class. It can be said that  in today’s society we have the marketization of law making.



Corporatism:



Fascism's theory of economic corporatism involved management of sectors of the economy by government or privately-controlled organizations (corporations). Each trade union or employer corporation would theoretically represent its professional concerns, especially by negotiation of labor contracts and the like.



One of the 14 characteristics of fascism is -



Corporate Power is Protected.



The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.



The people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights and procedural protections can be ignored in certain cases because of special need.



https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html



2013: Nancy Simone, a president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees local representing 275 workers at the Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, argued child protection workers already have levels of oversight that include unregistered unqualified workplace supervisors, family court judges, coroners’ inquests and annual case audits by the ministry and the union representing child protection workers is firmly opposed to ethical oversight from a professional college, and the Ministry of Children and Youth Services, which regulates and funds child protection, is so far staying out of the fight.. Nancy Simone says, “Our work is already regulated to death.”



How do you feel about child protection social workers taking off their lanyards and putting on their union pins to fight against professional regulation?



Regulation of child protection workers by Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers: CUPE responds.



Please send or adapt any of the following letters to the Executive Director of your CAS.



http://cupe2190.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/SSWCC_CAS-letters-re-college-regulation_Nov.-2016.pdf



Silenced, discredited, stripped of powers of moral appeal, and deprived of the interpersonal conditions necessary for maintaining self-respect and labeled "disgruntled" many people suffer from serious but subtle forms of oppression involving neither physical violence nor the use of law.



Civilized Oppression and Moral Relations: Victims, Fallibility, and the Moral Community.



In Civilized Oppression J.Harvey forcefully argues for the crucial role of morally distorted relationships in such oppression. While uncovering a set of underlying moral principles that account for the immorality of civilized oppression, Harvey's analyses provide frameworks for identifying morally problematic situations and relationships, criteria for evaluating them, and guidelines for appropriate responses. This book will be essential for both graduates and undergraduates in ethics, social theory, theory of justice, and feminist and race studies.



This book discusses how civilized oppression (the oppression that involves neither violence nor the law) can be overcome by re-examining our participation in it. Moral community, solidarity and education are offered as vibrant strategies to overcome the hurt and marginalization that stem from civilized oppression.



https://books.google.ca/books?id=idBqAAAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y

FCSLLG in "We are not social workers, we are child protection workers"

FCSLLG in "We are not social workers, we are child protection workers"

Meet Lisa Muir unregistered service manager for FCSLLG in this short recording.

https://youtu.be/YAU_PjjuBv4

How do you feel about child protection social workers taking off their lanyards and putting on their union pins to fight against professional regulation?

2013: Nancy Simone, a president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees local representing 275 workers at the Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, argued child protection workers already have levels of oversight that include unregistered unqualified workplace supervisors, family court judges, coroners’ inquests and annual case audits by the ministry and the union representing child protection workers is firmly opposed to ethical oversight from a professional college, and the Ministry of Children and Youth Services, which regulates and funds child protection, is so far staying out of the fight.. Nancy Simone says, “Our work is already regulated to death.”

Regulation of child protection workers by Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers: CUPE responds.

Please send or adapt any of the following letters to the Executive Director of your CAS.

DRAFT Letter 2 – Professionalism

I understand that there are plans in the works to force anyone who works in child protection to register with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers.

One of the reasons given for this change is that regulation will result in higher quality services and bring greater professionalism to the field and that this will improve the standard of child protection work in Ontario.

I would like to point out that a failure to meet standards of care in child protection work is very rarely the result of professional misconduct, incompetence or incapacity on the part of individual child protection workers.

(ACCORDING TO WHO? THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY'S SECRET INTERNAL COMPLAINT PROCESS?)

The stated purpose of the College is to protect the public from unqualified, incompetent or unfit practitioners.

But children’s aid societies already set those standards and ensure their adherence: they determine the job qualifications. They deal with employees they deem to be unqualified or incompetent. And CASs decide whether child protection work in their area can be performed by someone who holds a Bachelor’s degree and has child welfare experience.

I may not hold a BSW or MSW degree, enjoy membership in the College or be subject to its regulation. But I am a professional practitioner in the child protection sector and, as such, I cannot countenance this move toward the regulation of the child protection workforce. I am resolved to fight it at every step of the way and instead campaign for the measures that will bring real benefits to at-risk youth, children and families.

Sincerely,

DRAFT Letter 6 – Privacy and discipline

The move toward a regulated child protection workforce in Ontario gives me cause for serious concern about my privacy as a child protection worker.

One of the rationalizations for registration and regulation with the College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers is the restoration of public confidence in Ontario’s child protection system.

But violating my rights to privacy and confidentiality will do nothing to achieve this goal.

::::

What right to privacy?

A person employed by or acting as an agent for another person, private agency or government is not on their own time and have no right to privacy PERSONAL OR OTHERWISE.

Follow the link to read a lot more of this bullshit...

http://cupe2190.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/SSWCC_CAS-letters-re-college-regulation_Nov.-2016.pdf

Should the life of any child or future of any family ever depend on not having a bad corporate child protection social worker sent to their home?

Like a spoiled rotten kid the CAS has become accustomed to being unaccountable..

Without deterrents what prevents workers from being careless or callous?

Can you imagine if had teachers had a right to privacy that included how they treated their students or or if police had a right to privacy that included how they treated a suspect or if doctors had a right to privacy that covered the kinds of mistakes doctors make - good intentions or not?

Should the rights of the service provider to protect themselves come before the rights of the client or patient to protect themselves?

NOT ALL SOCIAL WORKERS ARE CREATED EQUAL.

FORMER ONTARIO MPP FRANK KLEES EXPLAINS "A DISTINCTION WITHOUT A DIFFERENCE." I'M NOT A SOCIAL WORKER, I'M A CHILD PROTECTION WORKER!

Listen as former MPP Frank Klees explains why the government has the only oversight of the children's aid and why the society shouldn't be regulated by the College of Social Work and why the government won't allow the Ombudsman or the Privacy Commissioner to investigate complaints or any other matters regarding the society.

All this sociopath did with this speech is explain how they were going to let the children's aid society get away with refusing professional regulation and public accountability.

Frank Klees (born March 6, 1951) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2014. He was a cabinet minister in the government of Mike Harris.

https://youtu.be/SA1YyWO0RTQ?list=PLsYhw09i3If44rMBDuZQ0ztayzSQU35Fy

What do you think?

Should Kim Morrow have remained in charge of a complaint about her own conduct? In this 34 minute recording Kim is looking for "creative ways" to handle Kelley's complaint. --

https://www.facebook.com/FamiliesUnitedOntario/videos/605844719625296/

HOW DOES THE ONTARIO CAS COMPLAINT PROCESS ACTUALLY WORK?

https://youtu.be/vqMWTrI3T5Q?list=PLsYhw09i3If44rMBDuZQ0ztayzSQU35Fy

Kim Morrow, the now former director of service for FCSLLG felt no moral or ethical obligation to register with the college herself during her 30 plus years with the society who went ahead and filed a completely non-malicious and non-vindictive complaint about Kelley with the College.

INTERVIEW with Director of Service for Family and Children's Services of Lanark Leeds and Grenville:120 minutes.

https://youtu.be/kq6JCx5FlfA?list=PLsYhw09i3If44rMBDuZQ0ztayzSQU35Fy

Three Cops And A Social Worker... How A Pocket Dial Almost Ruined Lives

Author's Note:

The audio file attached resulted in three police officers pulling me and my husband out of our house around 7:30 Monday morning on April 27, 2015. When they didn't find anything, they made a report to CAS so they could try and search the home two days later.

The video is of a meeting with Family and Children's Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville, which was set up after I sent in my complaint letter, which you can read following below.

https://unpublishedottawa.com/letter/48049/three-cops-and-social-worker-how-pocket-dial-almost-ruined-lives

Here's an "apology" letter now that doesn't really apologize, it actually blames us for everything they did wrong and it doesn't excuse the not so veiled threats to remove our children if we failed to cooperate fully without telling us of what we'd been accused of first - or for bringing my wife an I to court as part of their "investigative process" where at the same time this part of their claimed "investigative process" had not been concluded and without any determination of need the cas asked for the judge to order one year of supervision.

Page 1: https://www.facebook.com/FamiliesUnitedOntario/photos/a.421920498017720.1073741828.421903944686042/481605608715875/?type=3

Page 2: https://www.facebook.com/FamiliesUnitedOntario/photos/a.421920498017720.1073741828.421903944686042/481605878715848/?type=3

LETTER PDF.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/CCW.Group/10153303688647271/

For two years Kelley worked and went to school full time studying in between and then delivered our fourth child a week before her first year exams, while I took care of the kids and it was this day that made it all totally worth it for me.. She graduated with a 3.97 in 2015. Kelley has been a registered social service worker in Ontario for a little over 3 years. 2019/02/13.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2172168499462667&set=pb.100000086152445.-2207520000.1550081401.&type=3&size=1440%2C976

Why does the children's aid society have a problem with professional regulation?

The children's aid society claim if they were suddenly forced to obey the Social Work and Social Service Work Act, 1998, SO 1998 Ontario.ca - as many as 30% of their current workforce wouldn't be qualified to register with the college though others put the number closer to somewhere between 50 and 70% of their current workforce wouldn't be qualified to register at the time they were hired to work with children. The unionized workers claim these workers have in some cases decades of on the job experience who would lose their jobs which wouldn't be fair to them and screw the best interest of the child coming first despite all the damage they've already done with their godlike "special powers" they've become so accustomed to.

PROTECTIONS FOR CUPE MEMBERS AND NONE FOR IMPOVERISHED CANADIAN FAMILIES.

Powerful as God: The Children's Aid Societies of Ontario (2011) 1h 16 min | Documentary, Crime. 7.7/10.

Powerful As God - The Children's Aid Societies of Ontario is a documentary that delves into society's most controversial and secretive topics. The film navigates 'truth' by engaging twenty-six witnesses with diverse experiences into conversation. By facilitating a voice for individuals whose lives have been tragically affected, with observations and recommendations by experts who have worked directly with the agency (such as doctors, social workers and lawyers), the film reveals a child welfare system plagued by systemic and bureaucratic abuse that urgently requires public attention. Financed by tax dollars and wielding extraordinary power, the Children's Aid Society is deconstructed to reveal a broken system where employees have been heard to describe their influence over children and families to be as powerful as god.

The film, Powerful As God, won the MADA award (Children’s Issues) at Commffest Film Festival in Toronto, 2012.

The documentary screened at three festivals was released online (Blackout.ca), it was nationally broadcast on television during 2013, and received television, radio and newspaper media coverage.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234353/

Mary Ballantyne CEO of OACAS says, the next step is to have Ontario's estimated 5,160 child protection social workers registered and regulated by a professional college. Fifty-five per cent have a bachelor's (BSW) or master's degree in social work. A BSW is the minimum required to join the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, which is discussing the registration process with societies. Apr 03, 2016.

The Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (the College) regulates the practice of social work and social service work in Ontario in accordance with the Social Work and Social Service Work Act, 1998 and the regulations and bylaws made under that Act.

Mary Ballantyne, CEO of Ontario's Association of Children's Aid Societies academic credentials include and are limited to a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Guelph and a Masters of Industrial Relations – Human Resource Management from Queens University.

In January 2017, the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies (OACAS) launched a revamped set of curriculum for Ontario’s child protection workers. The Child Welfare Pathway to Authorization Series is designed to be more responsive and better reflect the realities of child welfare work in Ontario using an anti-oppressive framework. New training will cover topics such as equity, human rights, and anti-racism.

Imagine that, an agency that has been called as "Powerful As God" needs anti-oppressive, anti-racist human rights training in an anti-oppressive framework and here I thought Canada's Constitution, Charter of Rights and Fundamental Justice was an anti-oppressive framework.

I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge pope and king and child protection social worker unlike other men and women, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power...power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men and women are almost always bad, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority."

Not 100% Lord Acton

>>> Luckily, many CUPE members ((who were actually qualified when they were hired)) have protections against unilateral changes to work qualifications in their collective agreements. The report notes that at least seven collective agreements have language against mandatory professional regulation and the Provincial Discussion Table language ensures that any changes to qualifications are grandparented-in with no current staff affected. If the employers are moving forward with professional regulation, it’s likely they will bring this issue to the next round of collective bargaining so CUPE members will have to be prepared.

The report also notes that the “clearest path forward” would be for the provincial government to legislate the necessity of professional regulation, which would be an appallingly heavy-handed move.

AND DRAGGING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES THROUGH THE FAMILY COURTS WASN'T HEAVY-HANDED?

http://joincupe2190.ca/files/2015/10/Professional-regulation-at-childrens-aid-societies.pdf

:::

If you have any practice questions or concerns related to the new CYFSA, please contact the Professional Practice Department at 416-972-9882 or 1-877-828-9380 or email practice@ocswssw.org.

Submission-re-Proposed-Regulations-under-the-CYFSA-January-25-2018. OCSWSSW May 1, 2018

https://www.ocswssw.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/OCSWSSW-Submission-re-Proposed-Regulations-under-the-CYFSA-January-25-2018.pdf

ONTARIO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION.

Under suspicion: Concerns about child welfare.

To file a human rights claim (called an application), contact the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario at:

If you need legal help, contact the Human Rights Legal Support Centre at:

Toll Free: 1-866-625-5179

TTY Toll Free: 1-866-612-8627

Website: www.hrlsc.on.ca

http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/under-suspicion-concerns-about-child-welfare

NOT ALL SOCIAL WORKERS ARE CREATED EQUAL.

Without deterrents what prevents workers from being careless or callous?...

The report Toward Regulation also notes that the “clearest path forward” would be for the provincial government to "again" legislate the necessity of professional regulation, which would be an appallingly heavy-handed move according to the CAS and CUPE.

You can hear former MPP Frank Klees say in a video linked below the very reason the the social worker act was introduced and became law in 1998 was to regulate the "children's aid societies."

http://www.joincupe2190.ca/files/2015/10/Professional-regulation-at-childrens-aid-societies.pdf

FORMER ONTARIO MPP FRANK KLEES EXPLAINS "A DISTINCTION WITHOUT A DIFFERENCE." I'M NOT A SOCIAL WORKER, I'M A CHILD PROTECTION WORKER!

https://youtu.be/SA1YyWO0RTQ?list=PLsYhw09i3If44rMBDuZQ0ztayzSQU35Fy

Listen as former MPP Frank Klees explains why the government has the only oversight of the children's aid and why the society shouldn't be regulated by the College of Social Work and why the government won't allow the Ombudsman or the Privacy Commissioner to investigate complaints or any other matters regarding the society.

All this sociopath did with this speech is explain how they were going to let the children's aid society get away with refusing professional regulation and public accountability and why. They all have something to hide and is the one thing that unites them all, conservatives, liberals and the NDP..

Why continue to fund the CAS with billions of dollars after the agency refused regulation and professional oversight in 1998?

The Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (the College) regulates the practice of social work and social service work in Ontario in accordance with the Social Work and Social Service Work Act, 1998 and the regulations and bylaws made under that Act.

Regulation of child protection workers by Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers: CUPE responds.

Please send or adapt any of the following letters to the Executive Director of your CAS.

DRAFT Letter 2 – Professionalism

I understand that there are plans in the works to force anyone who works in child protection to register with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers.

One of the reasons given for this change is that regulation will result in higher quality services and bring greater professionalism to the field and that this will improve the standard of child protection work in Ontario.

I would like to point out that a failure to meet standards of care in child protection work is very rarely the result of professional misconduct, incompetence or incapacity on the part of individual child protection workers.

(ACCORDING TO WHO? THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY'S SECRET INTERNAL COMPLAINT PROCESS?)

The stated purpose of the College is to protect the public from unqualified, incompetent or unfit practitioners.

But children’s aid societies already set those standards and ensure their adherence: they determine the job qualifications. They deal with employees they deem to be unqualified or incompetent. And CASs decide whether child protection work in their area can be performed by someone who holds a Bachelor’s degree and has child welfare experience.

I may not hold a BSW or MSW degree, enjoy membership in the College or be subject to its regulation. But I am a professional practitioner in the child protection sector and, as such, I cannot countenance this move toward the regulation of the child protection workforce. I am resolved to fight it at every step of the way and instead campaign for the measures that will bring real benefits to at-risk youth, children and families.

Sincerely,

DRAFT Letter 6 – Privacy and discipline

The move toward a regulated child protection workforce in Ontario gives me cause for serious concern about my privacy as a child protection worker.

One of the rationalizations for registration and regulation with the College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers is the restoration of public confidence in Ontario’s child protection system.

But violating my rights to privacy and confidentiality will do nothing to achieve this goal.

:::: What right to privacy?::::

A person employed by or acting as an agent for another person, private agency or government is not on their own time and have no right to privacy PERSONAL OR OTHERWISE.

Follow the link to read a lot more of this bullshit...

http://cupe2190.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/SSWCC_CAS-letters-re-college-regulation_Nov.-2016.pdf

:::TAKE THE TEST:::

1. The College was established in Ontario to:

Regulate the professions of social work and social service work and protect the public interest

Advocate on behalf of social workers and social service workers

Develop curriculum for social work and social service work programs

All of the above

https://www.ocswssw.org/employers/quiz/

The Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (the College) is the regulatory body for social workers and social service workers whose primary duty is to serve and protect the public interest. The College is accountable to the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services.

Public Protection

The College’s ongoing mandate is to protect the public from unqualified, incompetent and unfit practitioners. The College serves and protects the public by:

Setting entry-to-practice requirements to ensure that only those with specialized educational qualifications are eligible for registration.

Setting, maintaining and ensuring that all members follow the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice.

Maintaining a Public Register of registered social workers (RSWs) and registered social service workers (RSSWs) in Ontario.

Requiring members to engage in ongoing learning through the Continuing Competence Program (CCP).

Maintaining rigorous complaints and discipline processes.

Complaints and Discipline

As part of its public protection mandate, the College considers and investigates reports and complaints regarding alleged misconduct of College members. The College ensures due processes are in place and ensure fairness and transparency for all parties.

Learn more about the College’s complaints and discipline processes, including how to file a complaint.

To learn more about the College, its history and administration, please visit our About Us page.

If you have any practice questions or concerns related to the new CYFSA, please contact the Professional Practice Department at 416-972-9882 or 1-877-828-9380 or email practice@ocswssw.org.

Submission-re-Proposed-Regulations-under-the-CYFSA-January-25-2018. OCSWSSW May 1, 2018

https://www.ocswssw.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/OCSWSSW-Submission-re-Proposed-Regulations-under-the-CYFSA-January-25-2018.pdf

Should the life of any child or future of any family ever depend on not having a bad corporate child protection social worker sent to their home?

Can you imagine if had teachers had a right to privacy that included how they treated their students or or if police had a right to privacy that included how they treated a suspect or if doctors had a right to privacy that covered the kinds of mistakes doctors make - good intentions or not?

Should the rights of the service provider to protect themselves come before the rights of the client or patient to protect themselves?

Mary Ballantyne CEO of OACAS said, the next step is to have Ontario's estimated 5,160 child protection social workers registered and regulated by a professional college. Fifty-five per cent have a bachelor's (BSW) or master's degree in social work. A BSW is the minimum required to join the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, which is discussing the registration process with societies. Apr 03, 2016.

Then a little later she says "It is unclear what additional role college registration would provide" says Her Royal Majesty Mary Ballantyne the First, Defender of the Children, CEO of OACAS, Master of Human Industrial Relations/Science and Member of the PDRC. Toronto Star.

How do you feel about the CEO of OACAS saying she doesn't understand the point or purpose behind professional regulation?

Would she go to an unregistered doctor?

Mary Ballantyne, CEO of Ontario's Association of Children's Aid Societies academic credentials include and are limited to a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Guelph and a Masters of Industrial Relations – Human Resource Management from Queens University.

http://www.mcscs.jus.gov.on.ca/sites/default/files/content/mcscs/images/195633-19.jpg

In January 2017, the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies (OACAS) launched a revamped set of curriculum for Ontario’s child protection workers. The Child Welfare Pathway to Authorization Series is designed to be more responsive and better reflect the realities of child welfare work in Ontario using an anti-oppressive framework other than the Constitution, Charter of Right and Fundamental Justice. New training will cover topics such as equity, human rights, and anti-racism.

What kind of social workers need human rights training?

2013: Nancy Simone, a president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees local representing 275 workers at the Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, argued child protection workers already have levels of oversight that include unregistered unqualified workplace supervisors, family court judges, coroners’ inquests and annual case audits by the ministry and the union representing child protection workers is firmly opposed to ethical oversight from a professional college, and the Ministry of Children and Youth Services, which regulates and funds child protection, is so far staying out of the fight.. Nancy Simone says, “Our work is already regulated to death.”

How do you feel about child protection social workers taking off their lanyards and putting on their union pins to fight against professional regulation?

ONTARIO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION.

Under suspicion: Concerns about child welfare.

http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/under-suspicion-concerns-about-child-welfare

To file a human rights claim (called an application), contact the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario at:

If you need legal help, contact the Human Rights Legal Support Centre at:

Toll Free: 1-866-625-5179

TTY Toll Free: 1-866-612-8627

Website: www.hrlsc.on.ca