Human Resources committee  I like your idea of transition leave, something like that. I think people have made the case here that there is a reason for needing this extra time, similar to biological reasons.

Human Resources committee  There is tremendous disparity across the country. There are some provinces that provide more. Alberta, for example, provides the best adoption subsidy supports to families. B.C. has reasonably good support. In Ontario, what support they get depends on the children's aid societies

Human Resources committee  Extremely.

Human Resources committee  I understand what you're getting at.

Human Resources committee  There are small amounts of money through social welfare for grandparents who are grandparenting children, but it's very, very small. It's extremely low. It doesn't nearly cover the cost of a child. Very often, when these grandparents take in their children, if they haven't come t

Human Resources committee  I'd like to respond very briefly. Two years ago the Adoption Council did get some funding from Human Resources Development Canada and did spend two years trying to set up adoption groups across the country, but the funding ended, so we were not able to do it anymore. There is a p

Human Resources committee  Sorry, I didn't get the question.

Human Resources committee  I think it would be very easy for the federal government to support a national data collection system. Currently, the data is collected occasionally by the provinces and territories who work with HRSDC. HRSDC, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, then publishes the data

Human Resources committee  Yes. In our brief, we have quite a lot of data of what happens to them. There are no national studies done, but there are provincial studies. One in B.C. showed that 41% of the children, within five years of leaving care, were in the criminal justice system, compared to 6% in the

Human Resources committee  Thank you. I'm Sandra Scarth. I'm president of the Adoption Council of Canada. I actually have worked in child welfare for close to 50 years, primarily in adoption in three provinces, and I have a personal as well as a professional interest in being here. I'm also an adoptive par