WINNIPEG – Critics are doubtful the province’s promise to stop using hotel rooms to house children under Child and Family Services care will actually happen.
“I’m not convinced the minister knows what to do,” said Ian Wishart, the PC party Family Services critic.
He says Kerri Irvin-Ross only reacts after a crisis and says hotel use should have been stopped years ago.
Irvin-Ross announced Wednesday hotels will stop being used by June 1. Right now nine children under CFS care are in hotels, the province says.
A 15 year old girl who had been placed by CFS in a downtown Winnipeg hotel was brutally attacked and critically injured early Wednesday morning at a parkade a few blocks away. Police arrested a 15 year old boy who they say was a CFS ward accommodated at the same hotel.
A Winnipeg foster mom, who cannot be identified, told Global News Thursday she already can’t accommodate the number of kids CFS asks her to bring into her home.
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