YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT BERNARD LORD CARES FOR THE KIDS IN THIS PROVINCE???

This is from a man who will continue the drugging and the killing of our children till October 15th, 2007????

NB Telegraph-Journal | Provincial News
As published on page A4 on December 1, 2005

Lord launches investigation of Child Death Review Committee

By Kathy Kaufield
Telegraph-Journal

Premier Bernard Lord has asked Family and Community Services Minister Joan MacAlpine-Stiles to investigate why an expert committee has done only "partial" reviews into about one-third of the child deaths it was mandated to review.

Premier Lord said Wednesday he wasn't aware the province's Child Death Review Committee, which is supposed to be a watchdog over New Brunswick's child welfare system, has begun conducting only partial reviews into some child deaths.

"I've asked the minister to look into this and to bring to me some recommendations and that's what we'll do," Mr. Lord said.

The province's Ombudsman, Bernard Richard, has already said he will conduct an investigation into many cases of child deaths after a story in the Daily Gleaner revealed the committee hasn't done full investigations in many cases and hasn't publicly disclosed some recommendations from its reviews.

The committee is supposed to conduct full reviews of all deceased children under the age of 19 who were under the care of the province or known to the child protection system within 12 months before their death. The group is supposed to release its recommendations publicly within 30 days. The minister must respond to the recommendations within 45 days. There is no reference to partial reviews in the group's mandate, but it is left up to the chairperson's discretion whether to conduct a formal review into the deaths of children who have died of natural causes.

The government established the committee in 1998 following several high profile cases in which children died of abuse and neglect, including Jacqueline Dawn Brewer, a Saint John toddler who died of dehydration even though her case was being monitored by Family and Community Services.

According to the Daily Gleaner investigation, the committee has reviewed about 61 child deaths since it was appointed, meaning about 20 were subject to only partial reviews.

Government officials said the practice of partial reviews for some child welfare deaths is acceptable under the committee's mandate.

They said the majority of partial reviews were cases of "medically fragile" children who died of natural causes, in accidents or by suicide.

As part of a partial review, the committee looks at internal government reports into a child's death, police and medical files but does not interview family members, health care providers or social workers.