May 25, 2021

New BCLI publications call for reforms to the child protection framework and review of legislation on youth aging into the community

The British Columbia Law Institute has just published the Report on Modernizing the Child, Family and Community Service Act and the Study Paper on Youth Aging into the Community. With these two publications the work of BCLI’s Child Protection Project Committee has drawn to a close. This committee met 19 Read more…

December 2, 2020

Spotlight on child protection: Disclosure

This post is part of a series that spotlights issues discussed in the Consultation Paper on Modernizing the Child, Family and Community Service Act. To read other posts in the series please click here. Brief description of the issue Section 64 of the Child, Family and Community Service Act sets Read more…

November 16, 2020

Youth aging into the community the focus of the latest child protection committee meeting

At the October 2020 meeting of BCLI’s Child Protection Project Committee the committee tackled a new component of the Modernizing the Child, Family and Community Service Act Project. Up to this fall, the committee’s attention had been on its focused review of the act. Now that its 38 tentative recommendations Read more…

November 4, 2020

Spotlight on child protection: Definitions and terms—“family violence”

This post is the first in a series that spotlights issues discussed in the Consultation Paper on Modernizing the Child, Family and Community Service Act. To read other posts in the series please click here. Brief description of the issue The Child, Family and Community Service Act employs the expression Read more…

October 14, 2020

Have your say on proposals to reform the Child, Family and Community Service Act

Today the British Columbia Law Institute published its Child Protection Project Committee’s Consultation Paper on Modernizing the Child, Family and Community Service Act. In this consultation paper the committee is asking for public comment on its proposals to government to reform British Columbia’s main child protection law. The consultation paper Read more…