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Persons with disabilities
Recommendation 16:
Increase program funding and support for families raising children with disabilities and complex medical needs to ensure they have timely, universal access everywhere in BC to a core suite of early intervention therapies; timely assessments; family respite; inclusive child care; health, medical and in-home supports.
2022 BC Child Poverty Report Card
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First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
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2022
2022
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Recommendation 61:
Increase income and disability rates to the Market Basket Measure to reflect the cost of an adequate standard of living, and index them to inflation.
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Recommendation 66:
Increase earnings exemptions for those on provincial income and disability assistance program, and any clawbacks must be incrementally tied to income.
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Recommendation 13:
In the meantime, the BC government and MCFD should bridge the gap between the current welfare and disability rates and the MBM for all families that are at risk of having children apprehended by MCFD.
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- Ableism ,
- Accessibility ,
- Accessible services and technology ,
- Classism ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Disability and parenting ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Health, wellness and services ,
- Income insecurity and benefits ,
- Indigenous children and youth in care ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality
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Recommendation 3:
In order to ensure that all children are granted the right to participate in legal proceedings in Canada, it is critical that all parties take an intersectional approach to understanding children’s rights and needs (Martinson & Raven, 2020a). This means acknowledging the particular nuances of a child’s circumstances and recognising that these may vary on a case-by-case basis. This also requires courts to recognise children’s socio-economic status, gender identity and expression, and differing abilities, amongst other factors (Canadian Coalition on the Rights of Children, 2016; CBA, 2020; Martinson & Raven, 2020a, pp. 22-23). Upholding children’s rights requires the creation of an environment in which all children feel empowered to participate in legal proceedings that affect them, regardless of their circumstances (CBA, 2020).
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- Ableism ,
- Access to justice ,
- Accessibility ,
- Accessible services and technology ,
- Ageism ,
- Classism ,
- Courts ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Homophobia and transphobia ,
- Human rights system ,
- Indigenous children and youth in care ,
- International human rights ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system
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Recommendation 7:
In order to ensure high quality and equitable services, there must be ongoing data collection and evaluation. MCFD should engage the Ministry of Citizen Services and relevant ministries and public bodies to develop and implement a plan that enables:
A cross-ministry plan is to be developed by April 1, 2022 with full implementation of that plan to begin thereafter.
- Longitudinal data collection about young people who have aged out of care in British Columbia.
- Evaluation of post-majority services and supports and the public sharing of the evaluation results.
- Standardized data across the province that is reported regularly, including (but not limited to) the following disaggregated data: identity factors such as ethnicity and gender identity as well as indigeneity – First Nations, Métis and Inuit identity.
A cross-ministry plan is to be developed by April 1, 2022 with full implementation of that plan to begin thereafter.
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Recommendation 34:
In its first year in operation, the BC Human Rights Commission should prioritize stigma-auditing areas of law and policy that most directly impact highly stigmatized populations, including, but not limited to:
- public space governance; income assistance and disability policy;
- housing policy and residential tenancy law;
- child welfare law and policy;
- policing law and policy;
- health policy related to mental health and substance use; and
- privacy law as it relates to people who live in public space and people who are criminalized as a result of substance use.
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- Ableism ,
- Accessibility ,
- Accessible services and technology ,
- Ageism ,
- Classism ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Health ,
- Housing and homelessness ,
- Income insecurity and benefits ,
- Other ,
- Policing ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Privacy ,
- Substance use ,
- Tenancy rights
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Recommendation 6:
In consultation with experts, including human rights law organizations, trauma specialists, and people with lived experience, the Province of British Columbia should adopt a standardized tool and training protocol for conducting “stigma audits” of current laws, policies, and regulations in BC, and to inform the development of new laws, policies, and regulations.
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Recommendation 9:
In addition, the Seniors Advocate would request a report from each health authority outlining:
- How they are using the funding provided by the Ministry of Health (i.e., $26 million over three years) to increase staffing and care coordination for assisted living residents and to identify the gaps and challenges with the implementation of Bill 16; and
- The current pressure on the health authority for acute home support and home health resources from the assisted living sector, and the potential increased pressure on these resources moving forward.
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Recommendation 6:
Improve multilevel accessibility in both traditional and non-traditional businesses, based on the definitions of accessibility provided in Appendix A. One example of language accessibility issues can be found in Appendix B: Other themes – Signage Accessibility.
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