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Pippa Rowcliffe selected RCY’s Deputy for Investigations, Monitoring and Corporate Services

B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth Jennifer Charlesworth is pleased to announce the selection of Pippa Rowcliffe as RCY’s new Deputy Representative, Investigations, Monitoring and Corporate Services, following a competition. 

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Blair Mitchell

Executive Director, Individual Advocacy, First Nations, Métis and Inuit Engagement

Blair’s strength-based approach ensures vulnerable children, youth and young adults have meaningful opportunities to express who they are and what they need to achieve their potential and to ensure that …


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Representative responds to tuition waivers announcement

Representative Bernard Richard responds to the government’s announcement that it will expand the tuition waiver program for former children and youth in care to all 25 post-secondary institutions in B.C.

Statement on Tuition Waivers Announcement…

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B.C. Adoptions Update

A follow-up to the Representative’s report Finding Forever Families: A Review of the Provincial Adoption System, this update provides key statistics for this fiscal year end and the two previous fiscal years.

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Representative Celebrates Foster Family Month

I would like to take this opportunity to offer my personal thanks to all foster parents in B.C., in honour of Foster Family month. The safe harbour you provide for children is tremendously important in their lives, as well as …


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Things You Deserve in Your Lives: the Representative’s Message to Children and Youth in Care

I am so pleased that May 23–29, 2011 has been declared “B.C. Child and Youth in Care Week.” It gives us all the opportunity to reflect on the lives, the hopes and the futures of the more than 8,300 children …


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Editorial Submission on giving children the best start to life

The Representative examines the key things that children need from their families, communities and government in order to have the best possible start in life.…


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System of Services for Children and Youth with Special Needs

Focuses on the accountabilities of the Ministry of Children and Family Development and Community Living BC with respect to the delivery of services to children and youth with special needs.…


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