Announce CAS Meetings

September 23, 2008 permalink

CAS board meetings are nominally open to the public, but CAS obstructs the public by preventing disclosure of the time and place of the meetings. Andrea Horwath wants this corrected, and John Dunn suggests supporting her effort.

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Please just look up your local MPP, if you live in Ontario, and call their office to tell them you want them to support Private Members Motion 41 by Andrea Horwath to get Children's Aid Societies to become more transparent and accountable.

This motion was advocated for by John Dunn of The Foster Care Council of Canada this summer to those who are not aware of it.

I just wanted to remind the members of the group to please call their local MPP and simply remind them to support (even if it never gets to be debated, you are just using it as a reminder of the issue to them). Private Members Motion 41 by Andrea Horwath which reads as follows:

41. Ms. Horwath - That, in the opinion of this House, the Government of Ontario should instruct all Children's Aid Societies to publish information electronically on their websites, where available, and in print format, readily accessible in the lobby area of each CAS office, which informs the public of their ability to attend and make presentations at the regularly scheduled Board of Director's meetings, the schedule and Minutes of those meetings, and further, in the same manner as mentioned above, to inform the public of the fact that CAS memberships are available to people who reside in, or who conduct business within the jurisdiction of each CAS, to provide details on how to apply for membership, and to provide access to the Society's By-Laws in the same manner. Filed on June 2, 2008

Please just look up your local MPP, if you live in Ontario, and call their office to tell them you want them to support Private Members Motion 41 by Andrea Horwath to get Children's Aid Societies to become more transparent and accountable.

Sincerely
John Dunn
Executive DirectorThe Foster Care Council of Canada
www.afterfostercare.ca

Source: email from John Dunn