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By JACK RIDDELL
MPP Huron-Middlesex
On Thursday, December 16,
1976, The Honourable Margaret
Birch quietly released the Report
of the Interministry Committee
on Residential Services.
Unfortunately, only three copies
were tabled in the House, and
additional copies are difficult to
obtain.
This report is highly critical of
the Government's administration
of residential services. It notes
that 23 separate residential
systems are at present in
operation under provincial
legislation and supervision,
In connection with the
programs which are intended to
serve children and young adults,
the report underlines the
necessity of far-reaching reforms
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garMENEZMISZ:
Only days before the Report was
finally tabled, he raised the issue
again in the House, making these
very points. At about the same
time, Central Toronto Youth
Services published a booklet
entitled "Priorities which arrives
at conclusions similar to those in
the Interministry Report."
Now that this forthright report
has been made public, we can
only hope that much needed
reforms will soon be made.
Margaret Campbell, Liberal
MPP (St. George) has called
upon the Government to establish
a public enquiry with powers to
recommend immediate and far-
reaching reforms to improve the
treatment of disturbed children
in the Province, and at the same
time curtail unnecessary ex-
penditure.
Wolves at
Clandeboye
Several wolves have been seen
in this area, some very close to
feed lots. Saturday one was killed
when it ran in front of a truck on
the Brinsley road near the second
concession of McGillivray
township.
Due to the weather conditions
the January meeting of the
Womens Institute was postponed
for the second time. The con-
vener of Agriculture and
Canadian Indistries, Mrs. Peter
Groenewegen, had arranged for •
Farmer Bill from Shipka to be
the guest speaker and bring
several plants from his
greenhouses but low tem-
peratures made this impossible
as well as road conditions were
very bad. We hope to arrange this
meeting at a a later date.
The ladies bowling league at
the Lucan Lanes was cancelled
Monday night for the second
week in succession due to bad _
weather. Several ladies from
Clandeboye bowl in that league.'
Peter Groenwegen left FridaY”
for Holland to attend the funeral
of his father, Mr. • A,
Grbenewegen. He returns this
weekend.
The bus trip to The Spring
Flower and Garden Show in
Toronto that the Womens
Institute was anticipating will
have to be postponed for a year as
we were informed it only takes
place every second year.
By MRS. STAN PRESZCATOR
Misses Lorna and Brenda
Glanville spent the weekend with
Miss Penny Wein, Exeter.
Sympathy of the community
goes out to the family of the late
Christian Wein.
Intended for last week
Sympathy of the community
goes out to the family of the late
Mr. Irvine Finkbeiner.
Miss Penny Wein, Exeter spent
the weekend with Misses Lorna
and Brenda Glanville.
Clifford Thornton, London
visited recently with Mrs, Stan
Preszcator and Mrs. Joe Thorn-
ton,
Mrs. Tammy Chalmers,
Goderich and friend visited last
Tuesday evening with Mr, & Mrs.
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in this area of provincial
jurisdiction.
It states, for example, that
"our uncontrolled and unco-
ordinated flow of admissions and
lack of classification make it a
matter of chance whether a
particular child will go to a
children's aid society home at $8
or $9 a day or a Children's
Institution at $25 a day or a
Children's Mental Health Centre
at $60 a day". This particular
passage is concluded with the
following admission: "Without
generally accepted classification
and monitoring of admissions
flow and control, it could easily
happen and perhaps does - that a
facility charging an overall rate
of say $45 per day has only about
one-third of the children in it who
should be accorded that level of
care. We simply don't know.
Most facilities select the
children they want on an in-
dividual basis or perhaps it would
be more accurate to say they try
to keep out those that they don't
want and let the rest in. The fact
is that no systematic case audit of
the children's facilities in Ontario
has ever been done."
Another section of the Report
observes that, Programs 100 per
cent funded by the Province tend
to be first choice placement
whether or not they were ap-
propriate", and that "the review
showed a significant number of
residents, about 20 per cent who
in the opinion of Directors and
front line staff, did not require
the service at all or might more
appropriately have been placed
in some other facility."
When one considers the wide
variations in per diem costs and
the very real possibility of
inappropriate placement, given
the fact that many users of these
services exhibit similar
characteristics, regardless of
which system they "happen to
find themselves in" (another
finding of the Interministry
Report), the situation becomes a
matter of serious concern.
The report also indicates that
program effectiveness is not
related to staff ratios. It was also
found, apparently, that "there
was a tendency for the same
number of , staff to be working
directly with residents at any
given time regardless of the size
of overall staff," although
"differences in staff ratios were
almost wholly responsible for
variations in cost."
In an Appendix to the Report on
the subject of Children's Mental
Health Centres, there is the
following information.
No formal operating manual
exists.
Financial and program
disputes are at present resolved
"outside existing policy by ap-
peals to politicians and other
forms of pressure."
No requirements at present
exist for facilities to report
"reasons for admission, progress
of treatment, reasons for
discharge, or actual number of
children in residence."
Quarterly financial reporting
procedures, while supposedly in
preparation, do not exist.
No percentage utilization
figure is given,
No average per diem figure is
given, although the Henderson
Report indicated an average
estimated annual cost of $23,000
per person, that is $63 per diem.
Stuart Smith first asked the
Government to provide a copy of
this report on May 6, 1976. When
the government refused to make
the report public, we openly
speculated that it would confirm
suspicions that children with
similar problems were being
treated in different facilities,
each charging different rates.
Money is, therefore, lavished
needlessly on Health facilities at
the high end of the per diem scale
while Community and Social
Service facilities barely survive
at the low end of the per diem
scale,
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