When we do the numbers on this for last year, it turns out to be about $54,000 per child. That's a tremendous amount of resources being dedicated per child in care. Yet we look at the circumstances these children often find themselves in and it's troubling in the extreme. And we don't have any method to analyze the results.
Your report indicated that there is no follow-up on children once they leave care--how they succeed or don't succeed in society--or even, in fact, on how agencies compare to other agencies within provinces, the first nations agencies, and how they are performing in their provision of services. There is no data.