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Healthy Child Development

Program code
BWU06 (INDSC)
Core responsibility
First Nations and Inuit Health
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).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-25Healthy Child Development 2018-19: $179MHealthy Child Development 2019-20: $103MHealthy Child Development 2020-21: $103MHealthy Child Development 2019-20: $158MHealthy Child Development 2020-21: $211MHealthy Child Development 2021-22: $204MHealthy Child Development 2022-23: $258MHealthy Child Development 2023-24: $336MHealthy Child Development 2024-25: $354MHealthy Child DevelopmentHealthy Child 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
Healthy Child DevelopmentThis program2018-19 – 2020-21$179M
Healthy Child DevelopmentLater program (name match, high confidence)2019-20 – 2024-25$830M

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
2019-20Appears to be replaced by Healthy Child DevelopmentCanada Spends name match across plans (an inference)
2019-20Planned spending $103M, against $179M in 2018-19 (−42%).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: $103M2018-19: $179M2018-192019-20: $103M2019-202020-21: $103M2020-21
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$103M$179M
2019-20$103M*—
2020-21$103M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2018-19: 1062018-19: 922018-192019-20: 1062019-202020-21: 1182020-21
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
2018-1910692
2019-20106*—
2020-21118*—

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$103,471,215$103,380,761$103,288,030
Actual$179,337,202

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