"It can be a life-changing event for the child protection worker," he told CBC host of The Early Edition Stephen Quinn. Social workers can sometimes feel like they missed red flags and blame themselves when a child is harmed, Charles said. If warning signs were missed and contributed to the girls' deaths, Charles emphasized, it reveals a systematic problem with child protection services and not any one individual social worker's mistake. (CBC)The family was known to child protection services. Supreme Court show that the girls' father, Andrew Berry, had twice been investigated by the Ministry of Children and Family Development.

Source: CBC News January 02, 2018 20:06 UTC