Saskatchewan's Aboriginal community have joined together with the provincial government to renew the Child Welfare System.
Letters of Understanding between the FSIN and the Metis Nation of Saskatchewan were signed Friday morning in the legislative building in Regina. The two documents pledge to renew the Child Welfare System in the province.
The approach is called the Child Welfare Transformation Streategy, and it will guide changes in the system, focusing abuse prevention.
June Draude, the Social Services Minister, says the program is an important one in Saskatchewan. "The money that we put into Child and Family Services in the reserves is helping us to be able to take some of the children who are off-reserve right now and put them on reserves, so its breaking down the barrier between what's ‘your job' and ‘my job' because the job is looking after the children."
