Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, something I've said and stood by as long as I've been a Member of the Assembly is I believe strong families lead to strong communities which lead to a strong territory, and it's families that will make a difference. When we have healthy communities, we have healthy families. We see the reverse in situations. So it's something we have to address, and we have been through this framework we're coming out with, to try and address, as mentioned, the last change in the way benefits were paid or help was given to those who were in the foster care world I guess is one thing that we're seeing and are going to work to try and address.
The particular issue of families involved, yes, we like to have families stay with family members. Ultimately that was the way it worked years ago, was when family members became in trouble, other family members took up the task. For example, when we talk about custom adoption in the North, that was an example of how families stepped up and just took over situations when the need arose.
The issue of when a call is made about the safety of a child, the act is very, very strong in that area of a child's safety. For us to step in, it requires that call of concern, then we would step in fairly strongly and try to make sure the child is, indeed, in a safe environment; if not, put them in a safe environment. We do have a plan where we do help family members, but ultimately it would still require that that child be in our care because of the liability issues once we get called. But once that process is in place where we are involved with a particular family, if there are other family members and we do have other family members who are taking care of their grandchildren, we do supply support in that area. But the child does have to be officially in our care. Thank you.