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Vulnerable Kids In B.C. Not Getting Care They Need

CP | Dirk Meissner, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.26.2013 | Canada British Columbia
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VICTORIA - British Columbia's children's watchdog has found that only a small fraction of the care plans created for some of the province's most vulne...

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Boy Tasered By RCMP Failed By B.C. System: Watchdog

CP | Dirk Meissner, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.09.2013 | Canada British Columbia
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VICTORIA - Children in British Columbia with complex care needs that can manifest themselves in violent rages deserve more from the child welfare syst...

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Horrific Child Sex Abuse Case Thrown Out Of Court

CP | Dirk Meissner, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.29.2012 | Canada
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VICTORIA - B.C.'s children's representative says one of the most horrific cases of child sexual abuse she's ever come across was thrown out of court w...

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Failure To Protect BC Children Costly

CP | Terri Theodore, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.20.2011 | Canada
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VANCOUVER - The case of six children awarded almost $1 million by a court because of the failure of child protection workers to rescue them from appal...

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Girl Left Alone With Dead Mother A Case Of 'Neglect'

CP | Posted 08.27.2011 | Canada
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THE CANADIAN PRESS -- VANCOUVER - A teenaged girl with Down syndrome who spent a week alone with her mother's decomposing body was neglected by govern...

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