Human Resources committee  It does replace directive 20-1. Under directive 20-1 we provided operations and maintenance, or the cost, for maintaining children in care, and we base that on actual expenditures. But they couldn't move within the funding envelope.

Human Resources committee  We have six provinces that have moved to the enhanced prevention-focused approach, and those include Alberta, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, Quebec, P.E.I., and Manitoba. Ontario is under the 1965 welfare agreement, so they don't use directive 20-1. They do provide some prevention se

Human Resources committee  That I don't know specifically.

Human Resources committee  I think I mentioned earlier that we were looking at enhanced prevention in a number of jurisdictions, but even for those where we haven't moved to enhanced prevention, we do have the authorities for those post-adoption subsidies and supports. We're always looking at the best inte

Human Resources committee  Yes. Where provinces have it in their legislation, the recipients can pay adoptive parents for those types of supports.

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  It's part of the funding we provide to the agencies, and they in turn pay it to parents.

Human Resources committee  I would like to first clarify that in terms of the number of aboriginal kids in care, INAC is responsible only for those first nations on reserve. That's about 9,000 children that are in care. What INAC has started to do, since 2007, is move towards an enhanced prevention-focus

Human Resources committee  We're not examining at this moment specific agencies. We did undergo an evaluation of the Alberta model for prevention. The results of that evaluation have not yet been released. They are expected to be released probably within the month. We didn't go into specific agencies to re

Human Resources committee  In terms of the Department of Indian Affairs, what we do is provide funding to either first nations agencies or provinces to deliver child welfare services to recipients, to ordinarily residents on reserve. We don't get involved in adoptions, per se. However, in 2007, as part o

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I just want to say first of all that we're talking about.... Unfortunately, we do have the one system. We are working very much under provincial jurisdiction. But what the money is doing is that it is providing some resources, additional resources, to the communities to be able t

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We've always been providing that.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  For the rates for the types of care they're providing.... For example, the provinces set differing rates for foster care, institutional care, group homes, and those rates we pay whatever the province sets.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's correct.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, we do.