The MCFD is responsible for the child protection service across the province and is provided through 429 ministry offices in 5 regions and a number of delegated Indigenous agencies.

[2] In British Columbia foster care is one option for providing homes for children who can't live safely with their own parents or caregivers.

They are different from restricted foster homes in the sense that these families don’t usually know the child before they are placed in their care.

Levels 2 and 3 may sometimes[weasel words] provide specialized intervention and assessment services.

Specialized family homes receive more funding depending on what level of care they provide.

[4] MCFD has been repeatedly been criticized for failing to implement recommendations of the Hughes Report.