FOI Request - Ministry of Children and Family Development
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
12666 72nd Avenue.
Surrey, BC, V3W 2M8
October 28th, 2022
Alison Giles
Communications Director
Ministry of Children and Family Development, Honourable Mitzi Dean
Direct: 250-387-3967
Cell: 250-507-3418
Ms. Giles,
Under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, I request that you please provide me with:
A spreadsheet, or electronically formatted document, detailing the different accounts of interdisciplinary actions taken against a social worker under your jurisdiction between the dates of January 2018 and January 2022. Within this document, could you please include the date on which an individual was first investigated, the reasoning for the investigation and, if obtainable, the disciplinary actions taken to ensure this will not occur again.
If there are problems with releasing some portions of the requested document(s), please avoid withholding these document(s) and only provide me with those you are able.
If you have any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to reach out via email.
Please notify me when the requested document(s) is ready for release.
Kind regards,
Sophie Hansen
Request Explanation:
I wanted to investigate the many instances in which a child social worker, or family social worker is internally investigated for misconduct. I haven’t read many published reports on this topic, so reaching for content that was entirely new to me was something I was striving for. Friends and family of mine have been connected with different agencies and heard the different perspectives from the child, the family, and the social workers themselves. I am hoping to further develop my research skills and learn about what goes on behind closed doors. Through research I have found that there are various ways of communication that a social worker may choose to use, especially depending on the age of the child. Seeing as some circumstances put social workers and counsellors in difficult or potentially harmful situations, is there lines a social worker can cross due to personal morals. Is this breaking ‘social worker standards’?
I am looking forward to potentially creating a blog post that publically addresses the topic of social worker etiquette in British Columbia!
Links visited:
B.C. social worker stole from dozens of First Nations teens, lawsuit alleges | CBC News
‘You’re constantly drowning’ in cases and paperwork, says B.C. social worker – Victoria News
Social workers' communication with children and young people in practice | Iriss
I really like how your links at the end of your post are embedded with the full headline! The only thing I would point out is that your source topics seem to be a bit widespread, and it's a bit hard to see how you came to the final topic idea that you did.
ReplyDeletethank you! :)
DeleteYour idea is very interesting and original. The way you’ve written about it shows that you are excited to uncover more. I think you did a great job with the request and the explanation, the only thing I wish you would’ve done to make it better is maybe use one of the cases (like the first one) as an example in your explanation to make it clearer.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Dara! :)
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ReplyDeleteI really like your post and believe that your request is really helpful to you to critically evaluate social workers. I think if I do this request I will only ask for 2 year data as 5 year period is very long.
Thank you!
DeleteGood Job. I loved the topic you choose. You give nice explanation of why you are seeking for the requested information.
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DeleteHello Sophie, reading your post is incredibly interesting, and you also give an excellent justification for the information you requested. Amazing work!
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ReplyDeleteHello Sophie, The ideas about Foi request that you wrote is clear and concise, which convince an agency more to share the information. You could have kept the same gap in between the sentences and the paragraphs to make it look bit more organized.
ReplyDeleteHey Sophie, I really enjoyed your topic because that's a great as well as unique topic in my perspective on which you will be able to research to grab more data regarding the FOI request as this is vast topic. The way you had expressed and covered your FOI is great style that I really liked as attaching the links of sources. Moreover, you can further elaborate your idea by adding number of cases reported regarding misconduct with social worker under the given time period.
ReplyDeleteI really liked the explanation that you have given for your FOI idea, shedding light to a topic that is not brought up so frequently. It will give the readers lots of informaon the topic.
ReplyDeleteI really liked the explanation that you have given for your FOI idea, shedding light to a topic that is not brought up so frequently. It will give the readers lots of information the topic.
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