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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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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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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.

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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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No Time to Wait: A review of MCFD’s child welfare workforce – Part One

This report is Part One of a two-part report on the workforce capacity of the Ministry of Children and Family Development’s (MCFD’s) child welfare services directly delivered by social workers. A more detailed and comprehensive report is expected in the

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Don’t Look Away – How one boy’s story has the power to shift a system of care for children and youth

The Representative for Children and Youth (RCY) is calling for a collective commitment to “stop tinkering at the edges of an outdated system that does not work for too many children and families” and embark instead on both specific and …


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Reflecting Back, Propelling Forward: A Report on the Child & Youth Family Justice Conference

Access to Justice BC co-hosted the Child & Youth Family Justice Conference on September 23, 2023, along with the Representative for Children & Youth, Youth Voices (Family Justice Innovation Lab) and the Society for Children and Youth BC. More than …


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Missed Opportunities: A review of the use of youth justice resources

A new report examining the youth justice system released by the Representative today reveals a gross under-utilization of scarce resources by the Ministry of Children and Family Development. While the number of youth committing crimes and being sentenced to custody …


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Still Left Out: Children and youth with disabilities in B.C.

The Representative for Children and Youth has released a follow-up report to Left Out, calling on the provincial government to immediately provide much-needed supports for the children and youth with disabilities and their families across British Columbia who are …


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