Cuts to infant development programs sure to be felt
As a supervisor in a large infant development program, I find Children and Family Development Minister Mary Polak's logic (Letters, Nov. 2) anything but logical. How can there not be loss of service when we no longer have access to the integral resources of the provincial office?
Where do I send new hires to be trained to administer developmental assessments? How do we connect parents with provincial resources and one another? Who will ensure professional practice standards?
The logic Polak espouses is comparable to proposing the elimination of school boards, school superintendents and even principals, yet saying there will be no loss of service to students. Having a number of warm bodies providing a service is not the same as having properly qualified individuals with access to provincial practice standards, up-to-date education in the field, resources, inter-professional communication and, above all, leadership guidance.
Michaela Wooldridge
Delta
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