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Recommendations for improving prevention-based efforts

Recommendation 27: MCFD must work with the Ministry of Public Safety & Solicitor General to develop a comprehensive strategy for parents that are incarcerated or on parole.

  • The strategy must recognize that it is not always in the best interests of the child to remove a child from a parent or guardian that has had engagement with the criminal justice system.
  • There must be supports to allow parents to have access with children in prison and while on parole. For example, the government should re-open the mother and baby unit in prisons.
  • The policy should set out a strategy for expediting criminal checks so that no child’s placement is delayed because of a criminal record check.



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