Submission of the Report of the Auditor General of Canada on First Nations Child and Family Services

Submission of the Report of the Auditor General of Canada on First Nations Child and Family Services

OTTAWA, May 6 /CNW Telbec/ - The Chief of the Assembly of First Nations
of Quebec and Labrador (AFNQL), Mr. Ghislain Picard, said that he was very
satisfied with the results of the Auditor General's report, but added that he
was very preoccupied the answers of the Department of Indian and Northern
Affairs. In Chapter 4 of the report that was submitted this afternoon in
Ottawa, the auditor examines the way in which the Department managed the First
Nations Child and Family Services Program. According to Mr. Picard, "For more
than ten years, we have been working tirelessly to show the Government that
the money that they are spending for child and family services is almost
completely devoted for child placements and very little is earmarked for
prevention - where the need is most pressing. The funding serves only to
purchase services from the province", declared Chief Picard.
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Children on reserves eight times more likely to land in foster care

OTTAWA — Children on native reserves are eight times more likely to wind up in under-funded, poorly tracked foster care that appears to be failing them, says the auditor general.