Family justice counsellors are public employees. Their reports are free as part of the Family Justice Report Service, but they are in very high demand and there is usually a long delay. The only way to be referred to the service is by court order. Once the Family Justice Report Service receives both a copy of the court order and the referral form from the court registry, the report will be placed on a list for assignment to a qualified family justice counsellor. You FYou cannot pick the family justice counsellor who will prepare your report.

Not all family justice counsellors are trained to prepare full ''needs of the child asssessmentsassessments'', and so the delay between requesting a report to getting it done might be up to a year. You can call the Family Justice Report Service at 778-360-2052 or find a [https://www.clicklaw.bc.ca/helpmap/service/1019 Family Justice Centre] near you to learn more about the service. Typically, it takes anywhere from 5-9 months to have a report writer assigned, and this is from the time the office receives the court ordered request for a needs of the child assessment. It can take another two or three months after that for the report writer to conduct the report.