Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The $125,000 that we have currently allocated for training, when child protection workers are currently trained they’re trained to work within a court system. They’re trained to work within a legal justice system. To change that practice to now move to more of a community system, to work with community committees takes a significant amount of changing practice. Just to bring workers in to train one round of social worker training throughout the North is $45,000 just for travel and per diems only. So there’s a need to change practice. There’s a need to train workers to support committees and to change the way they deal with children. It’s not a simple matter of saying we need to talk to communities and bring a child in front of the community. It’s changing court practice and changing how we deal with children. So there’s a significant amount of change practice that needs to take place.
Mr. Heide on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
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Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 28th, 2011
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