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Persons with disabilities
Recommendation 156:
The provincial government, in consultation with the community, must:…ensure that all services to victims of family and sexual violence are accessible and hospitable to people with disabilities… (p.5)
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Recommendation 4:
The provincial government should significantly raise income and disability assistance rates to bring total welfare incomes up to the CFLIM after-tax poverty thresholds and index them to inflation.
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Recommendation 3:
The provincial government should significantly raise income and disability assistance rates to bring them in line with actual living expenses and index them to inflation.
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Recommendation 5:
The provincial government should significantly raise income and disability assistance rates to bring them in line with actual living expenses and index them to inflation.
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Recommendation 16:
The provincial government should review and enhance supports to grandparents raising grandchildren and other kinship care providers. The federal government should allow grandparents on CPP Disability who are raising their grandchildren to continue to receive the CPP children’s benefit after they turn 65 and remove administrative barriers to receiving the Canada Child Benefit for kinship care providers.
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Recommendation 22:
The provincial government should ensure K-12 public education funding is sufficient to mitigate inequalities and to ensure appropriate inclusion of students with diverse learning needs. This includes restoring funding to school districts for special education assistants, lost programming in the arts, libraries, counsellors, school psychologists, custodial services, and deferred maintenance, among other areas that still require urgent attention in future provincial budgets. Schools need additional funds to implement the public health response measures during the pandemic.
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Recommendation 16:
The provincial government should ensure K-12 public education funding is sufficient to mitigate inequalities and to ensure appropriate inclusion of students with diverse learning needs.
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Recommendation 6:
The provincial government should adjust income and disability assistance rates for families with a child with disabilities to recognize the costs associated with raising a child with extra support needs.
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Recommendation 13:
The provincial government must increase program funding and support for more equitable distribution of available resources to ensure families raising children with disabilities and complex medical needs have timely, universal access everywhere in BC to a core suite of early intervention therapies; timely assessments; family respite; health, medical and in-home supports.
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Recommendation 31:
The provincial government must immediately raise welfare and disability rates to the Market Basket Measure (MBM), index them to the cost of living, and remove arbitrary barriers.
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