Child welfare report released

Child welfare report released
Last Updated: Thursday, December 16, 2010 | 3:15 PM CST
CBC News 

A report on child welfare in Saskatchewan says the system is broken, with too many children going into care.

The Saskatchewan Child Welfare Review report was presented Thursday to Social Services Minister June Draude.

It says foster care is in crisis, with more and more children entering care, and the care they receive may be doing more harm than good.

It's an often stark summary of problems being presented by review panel chair Bob Pringle and the other panelists who spent much of the past year meeting with hundreds of people, including social workers, aboriginal leaders and foster parents.

The report says the current system has major flaws and needs to be overhauled.

One problem is an adversarial system that people don't trust.

The trust isn't there, the report says, in part because families don't qualify for support until the problem is so bad children are seized

And once they are in care, they can be shuffled around from overcrowded foster homes to group homes. Children are missing school and leaving the system worse off, in some cases, than if they'd been left in their own homes.

The report recommends that far more emphasis be put on helping families before their children go into care.  FULL STORY

The trust isn't there because CPS people are malicious, goose-stepping frauds and scam artists.