CAS workers obtain informed consent before interviewing children at their schools

Forms for children or parents to sign to ensure that CAS workers obtain informed consent before interviewing children at their schools (Oct 31, 2014 Updated)

To help parents deal with the issue of CAS workers going into their children's school, parents need only to get their children or themselves to fill out the new updated Cease and Desist form which is attached to this post and to submit it to their local Board of Education and the Principal of the school were the children attend.

Optionally, a form can be sent to the CAS. Parents do not have to be affected by CAS or have open cases to submit a form to the CAS.

Parents in northern Ontario get ready to take on school board regarding the Children's Aid Society A number of parents in District School Board 1 Ontario North East have reported problems with the Children's Aid Society going into the school to interrogate and to terrify children. A letter has been sent to the school board as the first salvo by local parents to get CAS out of the schools and to stop harassing their children.

Canada Court Watch has downloaded and reviewed the official school board policy and has found that it violates the law. Anyone from this school district can contact Canada Court Watch for information on how to contact other parents in the region who are going to start fighting back.

Read the letter to the school board at the link:
Full PDF Source:
canadacourtwatch.com/files/all/2012Mar24-RichardGreenToSchoolBoard.pdf

Questions and answers for school officials and daycare providers regarding Children’s Aid Society involvement at schools, daycare facilities and children’s camps Introduction and background

In recent years, many parents, civil liberties organizations, teachers, school administrators and daycare providers from the public and private sectors have expressed concerns over a growing and unwarranted intrusion in the private affairs of children at their schools and daycare facilities by children’s aid societies (CAS) and their workers.


In addition to the public at large, many teachers feel that CAS workers are interfering with children’s education at schools and interfering with the ability of teachers to fulfill their roles as educators. Many teachers have reported that they feel very much intimidated by CAS workers because they have been misled by their school boards into believing that they must fully cooperate with CAS workers without any consideration of other laws which may be applicable and even supersede school board policies. Many teachers live in fear of being disciplined if they don’t report every bruise and scratch that they see on a child.

While involvement of the CAS with children in daycare facilities is less of a problem because children are much younger, a number of professional daycare providers have indicated that CAS workers have attended their facilities asking for confidential information about parents and have made their workers feel very uncomfortable. In some cases, CAS workers have used children’s camps as a spying ground to illegally spy on children and to obtain information from children about their parents.


One of the most significant issues causing problems in schools today is unregistered and unqualified CAS workers going into schools and questioning students in secret without the knowledge or consent of the parents or the student based on the mere speculation that a student may be the subject of maltreatment at home. In many cases, students are being forced against their will into a situation which is nothing less than an unlawful detention and interrogation at their own school. This often traumatic event causes a lot of damage to students and adversely affects the relationship which students have with their teachers and peers.


Unfortunately, many CAS agencies have worked their way onto the policy committees of many school boards and have improperly influenced school boards to implement policies relating to child abuse and maltreatment which in many cases violate the law and significantly infringe on the fundamental rights and freedoms of children and parents. It has been reported by some children that CAS workers are going into schools and threatening and intimidating children right in their own schools. Some school boards have been so misled by CAS officials that CAS workers are working inside of schools alongside of the teachers themselves.