Craigwood Youth Services

Jonathan Guider, OPSEU/SEFPO Local 166 President and BPS Corrections Chair, spoke with The Middlesex Banner regarding chronic short-staffing, low wages, heavy workloads and insufficient safety equipment at Craigwood Youth Services. Their employer’s response has consistently been that there is insufficient funding from the Ministry to resolve these issues. This puts both workers and inmates at...

CBC News has reported on the removal of all remaining youth from the secure custody youth facility at Craigwood Youth Services near London Ontario due to lack of staff – after years of inadequate funding by the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services. The youth were sent six hours away to Sault Ste. Marie,...

OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick is urging the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services (MCCSS) to address the staffing and funding crisis at four youth centres in western Ontario with increased base funding, to ensure that youth in secure and open custody facilities have the services and programs they are entitled to by law. The...