I can’t say that I know all of the details of the 217 children, but I could tell you that some children in permanent custody are for many reasons in need of highly intense care. Some of them, many of them are in need of one-on-one care. Some of them are victims of severe sexual abuse or sometimes from their immediate families. Sometimes they suffer from FASD or many other situations where they need very intense and sometimes permanent support. That is why many of them are in government custody. And it is true that some of them do end up in corrections services as the years go by, and some of them have to do with the fact that they have become adults and they are no longer in care of the government. But I think it is really hard to generalize what happens, and what has happened, to 217 children that would have brought them into care in the first place. It is really hard to generalize them. Thank you.
Sandy Lee on Committee Motion 1-16(3): Strategy To Improve The Health And Social Services Programs In Small And Remote Communities Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on February 16th, 2009. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 1-16(3): Strategy To Improve The Health And Social Services Programs In Small And Remote Communities Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 15th, 2009
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