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First Nations Child and Family Services

Program code
BWS04 (INDSC)
Core responsibility
Individuals and Families
In Departmental Plans
2018-19 – 2018-19 · Appeared and later dropped

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 2018-19. 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).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-272027-282028-29First Nations Child and Family Services 2018-19: $1.25BFirst Nations Child and Family Services 2019-20: $875MFirst Nations Child and Family Services 2020-21: $902MFirst Nations Child and Family Services 2019-20: $1.48BFirst Nations Child and Family Services 2020-21: $1.52BFirst Nations Child and Family Services 2021-22: $1.79BFirst Nations Child and Family Services 2022-23: $3.29BFirst Nations Child and Family Services 2023-24: $1.99BFirst Nations Child and Family Services 2024-25: $2.03BChild and Family Services 2023-24: $27.3BChild and Family Services 2024-25: $4.59BChild and Family Services 2025-26: $4.68BChild and Family Services 2026-27: $5.18BChild and Family Services 2027-28: $5.57BChild and Family Services 2028-29: $5.12BFirst Nations Child and Family Servi…First Nations Child and Family ServicesChild and Family Services
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
First Nations Child and Family ServicesThis program2018-19 – 2020-21$1.25B
First Nations Child and Family ServicesLater program (name match, high confidence)2019-20 – 2024-25$8.09B
Child and Family ServicesLater program (name match, medium confidence)2023-24 – 2028-29$31.9B

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
2019-20Planned employees (FTEs) 47, against 89 in 2018-19 (−47%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2019-20Appears to be replaced by First Nations Child and Family ServicesCanada Spends name match across plans (an inference)
2019-20Planned spending $875M, against $1.25B in 2018-19 (−30%).Latest Departmental Plan

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Historical: targets against results

No results reported yet.

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2018-19: $829M2018-19: $1.25B2018-192019-20: $875M2019-202020-21: $902M2020-21
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-19$829M$1.25B
2019-20$875M*—
2020-21$902M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2018-19: 512018-19: 892018-192019-20: 472019-202020-21: 472020-21
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-195189
2019-2047*—
2020-2147*—

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

Plan2018-192019-202020-21
2018-19 plan$828,567,384$874,828,208$901,601,191
Actual$1,253,998,279

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