An information picket will be held in Parry Sound tonight about cuts to children’s services in the district.
Ahead of tonight’s Town of Parry Sound council meeting, child protection workers from the Children’s Aid Society of the District of Nipissing and Parry Sound will hold the information picket outside the Municipal Office at 6:30pm.
Their goal is to alert councillors to the ways that cuts to child protection services are hurting people and communities in the district of Parry Sound.
President of Local 2049 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees and a child protection worker with the local CAS Debbie Hill says vulnerable children and families in the Parry Sound district get different levels of service; good jobs leave our communities for North Bay; and positions go unfilled in West Parry Sound.
Hill and her colleagues hope to win councillors’ support for their call for better funding for children’s aid societies.