Bernard Richard defends record, says he’s ‘perplexed’ by criticism from Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond.

After news broke this week that half of B.C.’s contracted group homes haven’t completed staff background checks, the former children’s watchdog says she worries her successor hasn’t taken an aggressive enough approach.

On Tuesday, children’s representative Bernard Richard told CBC he was “shocked” to learn that just 46 of 96 youth residential agencies have screened their staff through the centralized hub that the province created last year.

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