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Recommendation 1:
The federal and provincial government’s poverty reduction plans must be focused on lifting families raising children over the poverty line with both income supports and universal programs. Strategies to reduce poverty, including affordable housing and child care investments, must be fully funded and monitored.
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Recommendation 23:
The federal and provincial government should create universal access to post-secondary education by eliminating tuition fees.
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Recommendation 231:
The Division VIR Policy be rewritten using gender specific language in order to reinforce the reality that in relationship violence, women are the primary victims. (p.48).
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Recommendation 9:
The Director of Police Services must work with the Independent Investigations Office and the Coroners Service to audit deaths and serious injuries in city cells in BC over the past 10 years, including an analysis of race, disability, housing status, and gender, and, make the findings and recommendations for reform publicly available.
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Recommendation 18:
The direct access model used in British Columbia has been well received by participants involved in human rights disputes, experts and other stakeholders. The vast majority of advice we received urged us to maintain this model as it has been proven to be an efficient means of identifying and resolving issues that fall within the protections of the Code. This serves parties to the dispute well, in that it has eliminated lengthy delays relating to investigation that occurred in the past.
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Recommendation 219:
The development of information-sharing protocols between all service providers for all high risk cases under the leadership of the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General Domestic Violence Working Group. This entails directives from respective ministries to commit to sharing information in instances where public safety is at stake by means of Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) or Information Sharing Agreements (ISA). The MOU’s and ISA’s detail each agency’s duty to report on cases of domestic violence. (p. 8)
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Recommendation 428:
The development of a public education campaign that raises awareness of the serious risk associated with family distress, including risks for suicide and homicide. The implementation and evaluation of the strategies necessary for the appropriate inclusion of this education campaign in provincial school system curricula. This campaign should encourage citizens to seek assistance from appropriate social service, health care and criminal justice agencies and be available in all major languages represented in the provincial population…(p.10)
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Recommendation 326:
The development of a domestic violence court similar to the drug court designed to meet the needs of families and communities. (p.102)
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Recommendation 384:
The development and delivery of culturally-informed and culturally appropriate education, training and professional development for frontline practitioners working with intimate partner violence and/or substance abuse in South Asian communities. (p.101)
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Recommendation 195:
The Crown should ensure the victim/witness is personally served with a summons to appear as a witness, preferably by the investigating police officer. Where the victim does not wish to proceed and refuses to testify, the Crown should: (i) refer the victim to an advocacy or victim services program or interview the victim to determine the reasons behind her decision; (ii)consider alternative methods of proving the assault that do not require the evidence of the victim, such as admissions by the accused, other eye witness testimony, similar fact evidence, medical evidence, evidence of the arresting officer, prior to entering a stay of proceedings; (iii) consider a material witness warrant and/or a request for contempt proceedings only as a last resort where there are children at risk and no other government intervention is currently occurring within the family. Material witness warrants and contempt proceedings should not be used unless approved by Regional Crown. In those rare cases where a material witness warrant is issued, it should not be entered into CPIC and, once served, the victim/witness should be taken before a Justice of the Peace and released on appropriate conditions. (p.7 – 46)
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