Daphne Bramham: Urgent need to improve B.C.'s child protection laws; make practitioners more accountable

The litany of failures revealed in the report Alone and Afraid, about a starved, naked and uncommunicative autistic child, is a scorching indictment of British Columbia’s child protection system.
Starting in 2006, “Charlie” was the subject of eight formal reports to the Ministry of Children and Family Development about his well-being, and four separate child protection assessments. Yet, not one child protection social worker ever laid eyes on Charlie until 2016, nine years