Emma Knights, chief executive of the NGA, said: «Those governing our schools are generally unhappy with the direction of
government education
policy: with more than six times the number of respondents
negative about the
government's
policies than positive.
Many of our coalition partners and allies, such as the Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, West Coast LEAF, Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS), Inclusion BC, the Canadian Mental Health Association - BC Division, BC ACORN, Raise the Rates and the Single Mothers» Alliance BC, wrote to
government and spoke up
about the urgent need to rectify this
policy and its
negative impacts on child well - being.
Biddle said: «A lot of
government policies are
about changing people's behaviour; we need to make sure those
policy designs are effective and don't have
negative unintended consequences.»