Alberta’s NDP is demanding the immediate re-establishment of a Ministerial Panel to see through urgently needed improvements to supports for children in care and child intervention services in the wake of a new report that sees 2021 verging on a grim record. 1/4 #ableg
Figures released by the Ministry of Children’s Services this week show that between April 1, 2021 and October 31, 2021, 30 young Albertans receiving child intervention have died. 2/4 #ableg
Four more deaths have been reported this month alone, for a total of 34 so far this year. Thirty-four deaths ties a record for the most deaths in a single year dating back to 2013 and there are still five months remaining in the fiscal year. 3/4 #ableg
“These are children and young adults placed in government care.
“They were put in government care to give them a new start, to give them a chance and they were failed,” said NDP Children’s Services Critic Rakhi Pancholi. 4/4 #ableg
“They were put in government care to give them a new start, to give them a chance and they were failed,” said NDP Children’s Services Critic Rakhi Pancholi. 4/4 #ableg
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