| Summary: | These issues undermine the effectiveness of the review functions which are so fundamental to the exercise of authority under the CFCS Act and the extension of learning to the direct practice staff. [...] As counsel, the investigating social worker had become familiar with the history of some members of the child's family, and was aware that the other adult relative living in the home had previously been convicted for child-abuse related offences and assault in another jurisdiction, and that the adult relative's children were in permanent care of the ministry. [...] The amount of responsibility undertaken by each agency is the result of negotiations between the ministry and the Aboriginal community served by the agency, and the level of delegation provided by the Director. [...] The social workers from the ministry and the delegated Aboriginal Agency had attended the reserve to remove the child, so it is unclear as to why the delegated Aboriginal Agency social worker would not have known of the decision about where the child was going to be placed. [...] The purpose of the intake is for the social worker and resource worker to best identify the child's needs and match the child's needs with the most appropriate foster home.
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