Child and Family Services push for foster parents, Asking the questions.

Recently the Government and Child and Family Services has begun a push for foster parents due to a shortage of them across the island.

We have made a list of questions we would like CFS to address in regards to the vetting of foster parents aswell as what they will do to protect children who will possibly be forced into these new foster families homes.

The main concern is CFS cannot protect children who are in care as it stands so how can we be sure they will vet these future foster parents properly. CFS has let down Island families for decades at this point how can we trust they wont continue doing so.

Here is a list of all the questions we are asking

1. How will Child and Family Services properly vet potential future foster parents?
   

2. With the current lack of foster care families currently in PEI will this mean that the process of ensuring a foster family is the right fit to care for children will be sped up at any point? If so, in which areas?
   

3. What is the in depth process for ensuring a foster parent is trustworthy to care for

   children?
   

4. Who actually vets these potential foster parents?
   

5. Child and Family Services has failed to protect children in foster care aswell as Provincial group homes for decades now. What has changed to ensure this shouldn't happen again?
   

6. Will foster parents receive financial or any other incentive to support these children?
   

7. Will having more access to foster families make CFS workers more likely to recommend a youth go into foster care?

8. What does an investigation into the wrong doing of a foster parent typically look like, for all forms of abuse physical, sexual and emotional?
   

We are leaving room for potential follow up questions at a later date. Their will be a future post for when Child and Family Services answers these questions.