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Child First Initiative – Jordan's Principle

Program code
BWU07 (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).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-272027-282028-29Child First Initiative – Jordan's Principle 2018-19: $392MChild First Initiative – Jordan's Principle 2019-20: $0Child First Initiative – Jordan's Principle 2020-21: $0Jordan's Principle and the Inuit Child First Initiative 2019-20: $562MJordan's Principle and the Inuit Child First Initiative 2020-21: $582MJordan's Principle and the Inuit Child First Initiative 2021-22: $658MJordan's Principle and the Inuit Child First Initiative 2022-23: $1.04BJordan's Principle and the Inuit Child First Initiative 2023-24: $57.4MJordan's Principle and the Inuit Child First Initiative 2024-25: $656KJordan's Principle and the Inuit Child First Initiative 2023-24: $1.82BJordan's Principle and the Inuit Child First Initiative 2024-25: $2.35BJordan's Principle and the Inuit Child First Initiative 2025-26: $1.93BJordan's Principle and the Inuit Child First Initiative 2026-27: $1.68BJordan's Principle and the Inuit Child First Initiative 2027-28: $772MJordan's Principle and the Inuit Child First Initiative 2028-29: $121KChild First Initiative – Jordan's Pr…Jordan's Principle and the Inuit Child First InitiativeJordan's Principle and the Inuit Child First Initiative
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
Child First Initiative – Jordan's PrincipleThis program2018-19 – 2020-21$392M
Jordan's Principle and the Inuit Child First InitiativeLater program (name match, high confidence)2019-20 – 2024-25$2.84B
Jordan's Principle and the Inuit Child First InitiativeLater program (name match, high confidence)2023-24 – 2028-29$4.17B

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) 0, against 65 in 2018-19 (−100%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2019-20Appears to be replaced by Jordan's Principle and the Inuit Child First InitiativeCanada Spends name match across plans (an inference)
2019-20Planned spending $0, against $392M in 2018-19 (−100%).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: $168M2018-19: $392M2018-192019-20: $02019-202020-21: $02020-21
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$168M$392M
2019-20$0*—
2020-21$0*—

Employees (FTEs)

2018-19: 202018-19: 652018-192019-20: 02019-202020-21: 02020-21
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
2018-192065
2019-200*—
2020-210*—

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$167,931,828$0$0
Actual$392,414,538

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