Yes, thank you. There was a big change in the way child and family services was delivered following the 2018 Office of the Auditor General report, with an emphasis on keeping children with their families and in their communities if at all possible. And in our last annual report, we reported that 92 percent of children stayed in their communities and/or with their family or extended family. So last year, we only had eight percent of children in care who are in the permanent custody of the director. The real advancement in this area is that the IRC has passed its own child and family services law, the Maligaksat, and we have been working with them on an implementation agreement. And it's my understanding that one of the things that will happen with this law is that the IRC itself will administer the voluntary service agreements, which are the agreements that about half of the population of children are covered by. And they cover -- let me just say the basics. So this is a family where the social determinants of health are not very robust and so the voluntary support agreements are the way to support those families. And it'll be the IRC in charge of this program when the implementation agreement is finished.
Julie Green 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
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