We have seen detail on Res-Care in documents circulated by OACL and by Dr. Trish Spindel. Perhaps they lower staff qualification, increase the size of facilities, reduce the level of service to individuals. We must ask who is going to lose out. Privatization depoliticizes the system for the government. It lowers the standards so that all of us are forced to adhere to these lower standards.
Privatization risks a reduction of the involvement of volunteers and the community.
The chairperson of the new board in Niagara Area will be appointed and will be charged with appointing the rest of the Board. The Board will have no ties to existing community services. The Ministry has picked up phrases that we have used in the last few years and are throwing them back at us. Siphoning of Resources In Brant area Children and Youth service was an existing operation and we also had a Developmental Services Committee. MSWP calls for the creation of a central point of access agency to take over the rolls of these other organizations.