Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Child Welfare Information System has not made great progress. We ran a pilot in Yellowknife of the Alberta system. It proved, for the social workers, to be quite cumbersome and difficult to use. Our view, based on proposals we received, is that it would cost something in the order of a million dollars to make refinements to it that the workers had suggested and also to convert it or embrace our new legislation. Subsequent to that, people from the boards and people from our department have had discussions and framed up the proposal for a much more straightforward system. It is our view that we will go out and do a proposal caller on the design of a much more basic system. It is quite a leap to go from the current method of storing and using the data to what was proposed or envisioned by that Alberta system because we want to take a more humble approach. Thank you.
Mr. Ramsden on Committee Motion 22-13(5): To Identify The Amount Of Federal Funding For Western NWT Aboriginal Health Care
In the Legislative Assembly on February 24th, 1998. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 22-13(5): To Identify The Amount Of Federal Funding For Western NWT Aboriginal Health Care
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 24th, 1998
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