A12 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 12, 1997 Social workers protest an increasing workload SOCIAL WORKERS here last week joined colleagues across the province in protesting increased workloads withoul an accompany ing increase in employees. Stopping short of calling their action here a strike March 5, eight child protection workers did spend the day study- - ing how compicx their jobs have become, They did arrange for workers ta be on hand to cover emergency siluations where a child might be at risk. The eight said heightened political and public pressure concerning protection of children has meant more paper- work and more stress. . Social workers province-wide have been pressing the provincial government to hire more people to deal with the workload. : Increased expectations and new systems followed the revelations surrounding how the Matthew Vaudreil case was handled several years ago, The need is more crucial here because two of the 10 child protection positions in Terrace have been temporarily posted to Houston and Dease Lake to deal with situations there, said social worker Pam Beausoleil. With just under six years on the job, Beausoleil is the most senor child protection worker in the office. Stress levels are so high, said Beausoleil, that the office has had an average turnover of three workers a year. The problem rests in two areas since new legislation came in which increased the idea of child protection — more paperwork associated with the task and tew systems of reporting what they da. One. of the eight, Tammy Davis, said a high stress poist is meeting two sometimes different objectives — trying to ensure that families stay togelher yet also being worried (hat a child is not at risk. “The expectations have changed. We're getting more pressure to take more protective action,’’ she said. Davis and others pointed out that-an investigation which finds oul that a child is not at risk can involve up to six dif- ferent forms aud take several days. The child protection office on average deals with two and a half uew cases a day as well as dealing with ongoing client situations. - “Were more accountable to the court system, We're responsible not ouly for the day to day welfare of the child but for their cultural, religious-and other needs, And it all has to be documented,”’ said Davis. Child protection workers from across the northwest have now agreed to sel up information bootlis in malls and be- gin a letter writing campaign to support their position. News channel coming to cable SKEENA CABLEVISION is adding CBC-TV’s all-news Newsworld signal March 31 and more channels could be offered soon. Company spokesman Tim MacLean said the addition of Newsworld follows persistent requests that il be carried. “There's been a growing demand, more so that in the past. We had the spare capacity and decided to do it,”” he said. Ill be scen here on Channel 31 and will also be carried on the company’s cable systems in Kitimat, Hazelton, Smithers and Houston, . Channel 31 is set aside for the provincial legislature but there’s very lillle programming on it, said MacLean. There won't be any charge to subscribers to carry Newsworld. There's also the chance of more signals later this year as the lelevision channel industry changes rapidly with new players and new technology. Possible new signals for Skeena Cablevision include a CTV headline news channel, an animated children’s pro- gram chanel, a comedy network and a history channel spin off of the Aris and Entertainment channel, said MacLean. These are the first of 23 new channels approved recently by federal broadcast regulators. The others aren’t schedul- ed for broadcast for two years, when new digilal equip- ment comes on line. Spurring the move by cable systems ta add channels is the growth of DTH (direct to home) companies selling satellite receiving dishes, They offer program packages with more choices than traditional cable systems. But the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunica- tions Commission has indicated its willing ta look at addi- tional. channels for cable companies. in-respanse to the DTH companies. oe Terrace Tree Trimming 5, SPRING TREE REMOVAL & PRUNING 7! 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