383 search results for
2020
Recommendation 79:
COVID-19 has exasperated mental health and wellbeing concerns for youth. The Coalition recommends increased youth-specific services and support around mental health.
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Recommendation 70:
Continued access to phones, computers, and personal-protective equipment in order to maintain a quicker recovery response in the event of a second wave.
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Recommendation 2:
Continue with annual increases to the carbon tax while ensuring this taxation incorporates low income transfers that sufficiently offset any negative impacts to low income households or individuals (such as an expansion of the low-income carbon tax credit).
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Recommendation 50:
Continue to build a continuum of social housing that offers a flexible range of supports that respects the choice and autonomy of citizens to transition into safe, permanent housing.
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Recommendation 72:
Continue the $300 increase to income and disability assistance rates and further raise the rates to the Market Basket Measure.
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Recommendation 45:
Consider the disproportionate impact of precarious labour within the child care sector on women and implement a provincial wage grid for early child educators to raise wages, and address recruitment and retention.
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Recommendation 8:
Collaborate with community public health officials and health authorities to explore whether “bubbles” can be created for in-home services such as Nursing Support Services and respite to enable families as well as service providers to limit their exposure to others during a pandemic.
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Recommendation 8:
Children’s rights, participation, welfare, and best interests are unquestionably interlinked. Children are persons with their own legal rights and must be guaranteed the right to participate in guardianship and family law proceedings (Grover, 2015; Martinson & Tempesta, 2018). Children’s rights to participate are in line with the UNCRC’s recommendations and FLA’s best interests provisions (Dundee, 2016), and work to safeguard and prioritize children’s voices and preferences about their own well-being.
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Recommendation 14:
Children must be provided with legal representation to ensure that their best interests are at the forefront of decision-making in high-risk cases (Elrod, 2016; Lovinsky & Gagne, 2015; Martinson & Tempesta, 2018; Tempesta, 2019), which includes providing court appointed and funded lawyers to ensure that children’s claims are meaningfully considered and given due weight (Elrod, 2016).
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Recommendation 18:
Children are often not informed about their participatory rights in family law and in child welfare proceedings. Yet the UN Committee General Comments conclude that receiving this information is essential to implementing participation rights. The CBA 2020 Report recommends that in all cases where courts formally assess children’s best interests, children should be meaningfully informed about their participation rights, including their right to independent legal representation.
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