Council Request's Meeting with Minister of CYS

The Foster Care Council of Canada has requested an opportunity to meet with the Minister of Children and Youth Services to discuss several issues in and around mid August, 2008.

The issues to be discussed pertain to unproclaimed portions of the Child and Family Services Act which deal with disclosure of foster care records to those they relate to, public disclosure of CAS board meetings, minutes and By-Laws, a Ministry document/initiative to give kids a voice, the privitization of foster parenting to private organizations, expanding the child-welfare stakeholder list for Ministry related Directives and consultations to include the Council, and increasing visibility and access to the Provincial Child and Youth Avocate on the Ministry web site.

The request letter and response can be found below:

Request Letter (MS Word .doc) (Sent Friday, July 4, 2008)
Request Letter (Adobe PDF .pdf) (Sent Friday, July 4, 2008)

Ministry Response
Minister's response (Pending)