Children and youth have a right to an advocate – they also desperately need one

View fullsize

Click to view

Today, ten leading organizations released a statement urging the Government of Ontario to reconsider its decision to eliminate the position of the Provincial Child Advocate.

The statement was signed by:

• Campaign 2000: End Child and Family Poverty in Canada

• Canadian Association of Social Workers

• Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children

• Child Welfare League of Canada

• First Nations Child & Family Caring Society

• International Social Service Canada

• Landon Pearson Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children's Rights

• Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies

• Save the Children

• UNICEF Canada

Click here to read the statement.