These clients are children that have needs that require highly specialized daily attention for assessment, treatment, education and support services. The individual children that are in southern placements are there because we don’t have that service available in the NWT. Although the Child and Family Services Committee does deal with children receiving services, and under the whole Foster Care Program or the Child Protection Program we have these children in there in southern treatment or southern placement – some of these children in there in southern placement – it’s not directly associated with the creation of the committee cost. This cost here would be, unless we’re able to provide the treatment, educational and the support services that these particular children need. Even if we had all of the child and family service committees up and running, we would still have these children in these placements until, like the Minister of Finance indicated earlier,
we’re able to build facilities and get staff into the North trained or brought into the North to be able to accommodate the needs of these children here.
On the surgery room, I’m just going to read some of the key messages here that all surgeries have resumed, with the exception of joint replacement surgeries. The processes are in place to ensure that all the best practice guidelines are continued to be met. Higher risk joint surgery is still on hold, pending additional infection control improvements, and that was on the sterilization issue that the Member brought up previously.