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Program directory · Employment and Social Development Canada

Social Development

Program code
BKC00 (HRSD)
Core responsibility
Income security, access to opportunities and well-being for individuals, families and communities.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2010-11 – 2017-18

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2010-11. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Social Development 2010-11: $2.92BSocial Development 2011-12: $2.87BSocial Development 2012-13: $3BSocial Development 2013-14: $2.99BSocial Development 2014-15: $2.94BSocial Development 2015-16: $8.96BSocial Development 2016-17: $2.24BSocial Development 2017-18: $695MSocial Development
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Social DevelopmentThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$26.6B

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

YearWhat changedSource
2015-16Spending $8.96B, against $2.94B in 2014-15 (+205%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2016-17Spending $2.24B, against $8.96B in 2015-16 (−75%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2017-18Spending $695M, against $2.24B in 2016-17 (−69%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2013-14: $2.99B2013-142014-15: $2.94B2014-152015-16: $8.96B2015-162016-17: $2.24B2016-172017-18: $695M2017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-14—$2.99B
2014-15—$2.94B
2015-16—$8.96B
2016-17—$2.24B
2017-18—$695M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 4422013-14: 3892013-142014-15: 3462014-15: 3562014-152015-16: 3452015-16: 2892015-162016-17: 3372016-17: 3092016-172017-18: 3642017-18: 3492017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-14442389
2014-15346356
2015-16345289
2016-17337309
2017-18364349

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan
Actual

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.