Bill 93 protest
Posted Mar 1, 2010 04:51:21 PM.
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Two dozen protesters in Cambridge today tried to draw attention to a bill they want passed for more oversight of Children’s Aid Societies.
Bill 93 would allow the province’s Ombudsman to investigate the CAS.
Tanya Coch was a CAS client who recently had her file closed.
She says the current process for getting complaints dealt with can take several months.
Alison Scott is the head of Family and Children’s Services of Waterloo Region.
She says she is not opposed to the bill, but says there are already several safeguards in place to deal with complaints.
Her agency has 12 hundred ongoing family service files and she says they had six complaints that went to the complaints review board in the past year.
