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Katelynn Sampson inquest recommendations focus on putting child first
… recommendations: – A shared intake screening service and phone number for the four child protection agencies in Toronto… Children’s aid societies change from standard business hours to 12-hour days, seven days a week. A new protocol allowing police to release their records to children’s aid societies… A single, standard compulsory training for all child protection workers and supervisors. More social workers in public schools who can work with students without parental consent.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living, youth
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Queen’s Park should save schools for deaf children
… depriving deaf children of sign language results in linguistic and cognitive delays that extend into adulthood… The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities requires governments to facilitate learning of sign language by deaf students and promote the linguistic identity of the deaf community in schools. Instead of closing the provincial schools, the ministry of education should work to enhance the schools’ environment and enable deaf and hard of hearing students to thrive.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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Arguments for a one-board school system strong, but falling on deaf ears
The OSSTF proposal wouldn’t end publicly funded Catholic education. All existing school boards – public, Catholic and French language – would be merged. Combined boards could still oversee a Catholic education component… Full schools allow a greater variety of courses and stronger extracurricular programs, which translates to better education. Ending public funding for religious schools would be the best and fairest policy.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, rights, tax, youth
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Finland’s social climbers: How they’re fighting inequality with education, and winning
This is a rare example of a country where national policy has been used to build a better pathway out of poverty and into a productive life. In recent years, that policy, while still successful, has begun to feel the pressures of a more diverse population and a fast-changing economy… what if… instead of spending money to make life more tolerable for the poor, governments invested in transforming children of poverty into productive, non-dependent, tax-contributing people?
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living, youth
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Aboriginal youth deserve better future
… the demographic bulge of young aboriginals in Canada will make itself felt — constructively, if we tackle education properly; in more difficult ways if we do not… The challenge is to find a sustainable way to offer a future to its youth. It is a quintessentially Canadian challenge, and applies to all indigenous communities. It is a national project, which should mean not just governments, but individuals, rallying to find solutions. It’s 2016. It’s time to get this relationship right.
Tags: economy, Health, housing, ideology, Indigenous, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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Poorest children in Canada falling even further behind
The global report, “UNICEF’s Report Card 13: Fairness for Children,” focused on what is called “bottom-end inequality” — how far the poorest children are allowed to fall behind the average of their peers.
It looked at the difference in four key areas — income, health, education and life satisfaction — between those children at the bottom 10 per cent of family income and those in the middle… In this latest study, Canada is 26th out of 35 nations.
Tags: child care, ideology, Indigenous, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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We need to overcome our national math phobia
… this move to embed math skills more deeply in Ontarians needn’t become a question of the sciences versus the arts. Quite the opposite: just as with increased reading skills, increased math skills will allow more efficient learning of other key subjects… Math teaches us logic and proof. It teaches us to think abstractly, yet precisely… We are preparing the current generation of Canadians for careers in the fourth industrial revolution and a world economy that relies on knowledge as the driver of prosperity.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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CAS needs more funds, not regulation
Requiring CAS workers to register with a professional college simply allows government and agencies to pass the buck for failures in child protection services. By shifting the responsibility to individual workers, they ignore the systemic issues that are hurting children and families and put off real reforms to a vital public service that is starved for funding, resources and leadership.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
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Most OSAP overpayments recovered
Ontario has one of the most generous financial aid systems in the country… Many of the issues around OSAP identified in your article are addressed in recently announced changes to Ontario’s financial aid system. In fact, almost all of the overpayments are recovered, and the amount not repaid represents about 0.5 per cent of the total assistance provided by OSAP to students in need.
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, youth
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Children’s aid societies launch major training reforms
Children’s aid societies in Ontario have launched a major reform of training for child protection workers, setting province-wide standards designed to eventually have workers regulated by a professional college… But the union representing child protection workers is firmly opposed to 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.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, standard of living, youth
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