A8 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 26, 1997 Social workers CHILD PROTECTION workers here who held a recent study session protest- ing their workload are continuing their campaign. They're joining counterparts from across the province In asking MLAs to sign letters asking for help and then to have them forwarded to their boss, chil- dren and families minister Penny Priddy. The workers, who belong to the new families and children ministry, say that while their workload is increasing and becoming more complex, no new workers are being hired. They say that leads to more stress, more burn out and more worker turnover in addition to making things more dif- ficult for clients. - _ The government has agreed to review the caseload issue in conjunction with cranking up the heat the British Columbia Government and Services Employees’ Union. A committee of management and union reps will look at case load: distrib- ution, staff allocations in areas of high demand and ways of streamlining paper- work, co OR, The children and families ministry is already phasing in the new risk assess- ment procedure, updating computer files and will, in the new fiscal year, give so- ter concludes. cial workers cell phones and computers. The fetter being sent to Penny Priddy kkk In the meantime, Priddy has announced demands an cnd to a hiring freeze, she'll cut 398 of the 756 positions. in providing a pool of auxiliary social here ministry's headquarters. workers, hiring aides for the workers and now have to do. “Social workers in B.C, request all: Approximately 25 per cent of the posi- points be addressed by April 2, 1997, or tions are either vacant or filled by auxil- further job action will be taken,”’ the Iet- iary workers. “By cutting our bureaucracy, we help giving managers the paperwork workers to ensure front-line services temain our top priority,’ she said. ———————————VV— Te | | Clip the page with all the faces pasted i correctly and send to The Terrace Standard | 3210 Clinton Street, Terrace, B.C. V8G 5R2 638-7283 | TO RENO | Name 1. Find the 9 hidden faces throughout the pages of this issue of the { ADDRESS, PHONE i [MUST BE 19 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER) 4/97. 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