The Premier committed to creating a Child and Youth Commission nearly two years ago, but there's still no timeline when it will be established.
WATCH: MLAs are set to return to Province House on Thursday to kick of the Nova Scotia Legislature’s fall session. The Nova Scotia College of Social Workers is hoping to see legislation that will help protect children’s rights. As Callum Smith reports, the government previously vowed to create a child and youth commission, but that has yet to come to fruition.
“At this point in time, we seem to be stalled out in terms of delivering on this crucial office to protect the rights of children in Nova Scotia at a time when, more than ever, we need to see the rights of children protected,” he says in an interview. The purpose of the commission would be to provide a “political and public apparatus” to report to “when policy is being provided or programs are falling short on delivering on their on their rights,” Stratford says.In November 2021, while addressing the Restorative Inquiry into the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children, Premier Tim Houston committed to creating a commission.
Karla MacFarlane, the former minister of the department of community services, said the commission would be independent from government and guided by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.,” she told Global News April 5, 2022. “But at the same time, it will actually expand greatly on those powers and authorities and have accountability as well, which is very important.
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