Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as the Department of Child and Family Services, they continue to support the front line services and, you know, I think there are many supervisors who are working in the front line area because due to the vacancies and, you know, it's not of the lack of recruitment. You know, we've been working with the Aurora College to try and get the social work program up and running. We've been looking at different models of staffing levels and, you know, we've been increasing the family preservation workers since the previous report. I think there was an increase of 56 family preservation workers to work to support families and communities. This is why we're doing the analysis now so that way we can look at what's going on.
Just within this last year alone, you know, just with the drug crisis alone, it has exacerbated the system. You know, I've talked to my colleagues from the different communities. I've had a meeting last week after the Council of Leaders with a chief and, you know, it's just, like within the last year, the more pressure and more pressure on the social workers in some of these smaller communities. So that's what we're focusing on, and we are doing the work. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.