New report shows 117 B.C. foster children were placed in hotels

New report shows 117 B.C. foster children were placed in hotels

After 18-year-old Alex Gervais fell to his death from the window of a hotel where he had been living, against child welfare policies, government officials said he was the only foster child in B.C. being housed in a hotel.

• B.C.'s child advocate calls for complete ban of hotel use for children in care