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Putting Children and Youth at the Centre: Reforming and Modernizing the Mental Health Act for Children and Youth

The Representative for Children and Youth is urging the provincial government to modernize the Mental Health Act and ensure that it addresses the unique needs and circumstances of children and youth living with mental health challenges. The report, Putting Children …


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Canadian Council of Child and Youth Advocates Seeks Compliance to Jordan’s Principle on National Child Day and Every Day – Our Children, Our Future

The Canadian Council of Child and Youth Advocates are urging Canada to immediately end the discrimination and address the systemic barriers that prevent Indigenous children and youth from receiving the services and supports to which they are entitled.

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Annual Report and Service Plan 2025/26 to 2027/28

The Representative has released the Annual Report 2024/25 and Service Plan 2025/26 to 2027/28. This report includes details on the activities of the Office in 2024/25 and planned projects and initiatives through to 2027/28.

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International Overdose Awareness Day: B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth Urges Awareness, Compassion, and Action

Victoria – Nine years into B.C.’s toxic drug crisis, first declared a public health emergency by the Provincial Health Officer in 2016, children and youth remain among those most deeply impacted.

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B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth renews call for tangible, on-the-ground changes to ensure child well-being

Victoria – One year after the high-profile report focusing on the preventable death of an 11-year-old boy in the Fraser Valley, B.C.’s independent oversight office for children and youth says more must be done to ensure young people are safe …


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Accessibility Plan 2025-28

RCY is actively working to create a more inclusive and accessible future.

RCY’s Accessibility Plan has been drafted to act as a guide in catalyzing shifts in organizational culture, to enable full and effective participation for all staff and clients, …

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Representative for Children and Youth says much more needs to be done to ensure young people in care do not continue to go missing.

VICTORIA – In acknowledgement of International Missing Children’s Day, May 25th, B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth is calling on provincial systems of care to do more to prevent and better support young people who are lost, fleeing and missing …


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No Time to Wait: A review of MCFD’s child welfare workforce Pt.2

This report is the second and final report on a review of the workforce capacity of the Ministry of Children and Family Development’s (MCFD’s) child welfare services directly delivered by social workers.

The report highlights further analysis of a large …


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Too Many Left Behind: Ensuring Children and Youth with Disabilities Thrive

The Representative for Children and Youth has released an Issues Spotlight report renewing calls for immediate and urgent action including immediate funding increases, strengthening mental health services, enhancing equitable access to education, a cross-government data management system and equitable access …


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Annual Report 2023/24 and Service Plan 2024/25 to 2026/27

The Representative has released the Annual Report 2023/24 and Service Plan 2024/25 to 2026/27. This report includes details on the activities of the Office in 2024/25 and planned projects and initiatives through to 2026/27.

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