JLB and RW v. Family & Children’s Services of the Waterloo Region, 2024 CFSRB 135

CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES REVIEW BOARD

BETWEEN:

JLB and RW Applicant

-and-

Family & Children’s Services of the Waterloo Region Respondent

DECISION

Adjudicator: Caroline Sand Date: November 20, 2024 Citation: 2024 CFSRB 135 Indexed As: JLB and RW v Family & Children’s Services of the Waterloo Region (CYFSA s.120)

Introduction

1This is an Application filed under section 120 of the Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2017 S.O. 2017, c.14, Sched. 1 (the “Act”).

2The Applicant is the mother of a child she says was kidnapped. The Applicant says she was also kidnapped, and the Respondent conspired against her.

3This decision explains why the Application is not eligible for review by the CFSRB.

BACKGROUND

4The Applicant filed 135 pages of supporting materials. The pages submitted consist primarily of police reports and information requests. There is one mention of a Children’s Aid Society apprehending the Applicant’s child on November 3, 2021. It does not mention which Children’s Aid Society, but the report comes from a police department in York Region.

5The Respondent wrote to the CFSRB on November 5, 2024, indicating that they were involved with the Applicant between February 20, 2018 and April 10, 2018. The supporting information from the Applicant does not include a connection to this Respondent.

6In its Case Management Direction dated November 6, 2024 (“CMD”), the CFSRB directed the Applicant to email the CFSRB by November 8, 2024, if the Applicant intended to name the current Respondent, or a different Children’s Aid Society in her Application.

7The CFSRB further directed that if the Applicant intended to name the current Respondent listed in the Application, she was to explain her complaint against the Respondent, based on what she claimed in paragraph 6 of the Application, namely:

• The Society did not give you a chance to be heard when you raised your concerns.
• The Society did not give you a chance to be heard when decisions that affected your interests were made.
• The Society did not give you reasons for its decisions that affect your interests
• The Society refused to proceed with your complaint.
• The Society did not follow its complaint review process or timelines.

8In its CMD, the CFSRB provided notice to the Applicant that if she does not provide the information requested, it may dismiss the Application as ineligible for review or abandoned.

ANALYSIS

9The Applicant did not provide the information requested on November 8, 2024, or at any time up to today.

10The CFSRB’s Rules of Procedure set out at Rule 20.1 that an Application must contain relevant details in support of the allegations against the society.

11The Applicant did not provide the relevant details in her Application. The CFSRB provided the Applicant with an opportunity to outline the relevant details. The CFSRB also gave notice to the Applicant that it may dismiss the Application as ineligible for review or abandoned if she did not provide the information requested. The Applicant did not respond to the CFSRB’s directions to provide additional information. Therefore, the Application remains without relevant details in support of the allegations against the Respondent and is ineligible for review. The Application is ineligible for review.

ORDER

12The Application is dismissed.

confidentiality order

13Pursuant to Rules 9.3 and 9.4 of the CFSRB’s Rules of Procedure, parties and their representatives must not use, share, discuss or disclose any CFSRB documents or decisions, or any other documents or information provided or used in this Application, with anyone including through the media or online. The CFSRB prohibits the use of any of this information for any purpose outside of the CFSRB’s proceedings, except with an order of the Court or the CFSRB, as appropriate.