Mr. Chairman, I just wanted to add some of the discussions we had in the social envelope committee meetings. As the Members know, with the new turnover of the social welfare dollars to the Department of Education and a different process there, what we see is the social workers who are not presently available will have significantly more time to do the job that they are trained to do. As a result, what we see is that these social workers could have additional training to counsel and assist victims of crime which, from time to time, they are doing already in certain communities. It would be a much cleaner mandate or job function of the social worker to take on this function. This is one of the ways we thought this can be taken care of; by taking the time that the social workers had been using to evaluate people's income and doing needs assessments to put out welfare cheques. This will not be part of their function any longer so they will have that time allocation, which we discussed as an envelope committee, to be available to do that speciality in terms of assisting victims of crime. This is one of the areas that we feel a significant role being changed or being identified as important.
Nellie Cournoyea on Committee Motion 35-12(7): To Adopt Recommendation 6, Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on April 4th, 1995. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 35-12(7): To Adopt Recommendation 6, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
April 3rd, 1995
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Nellie Cournoyea Nunakput
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