Program directory · Department of Indigenous Services

First Nations Child and Family Services

Department

Department of Indigenous Services

Program code

BXM12 (INDSC)

Core responsibility

Health and Social Services

In Departmental Plans

2019-20 – 2022-23 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

First Nations Child and Family Services contributions are intended to support the safety and well-being of First Nations children ordinarily resident on-reserve. The program provides funding to First Nations child and family services agencies which are established, managed and controlled by First Nations agencies and delegated by provincial authorities to provide prevention and protection services. In areas where these agencies do not exist, the Department funds services but it does not deliver child and family services. Services are provided by provincially delegated First Nations child and family services agencies, tribal councils, First Nation Bands, and the provinces and Yukon in accordance with the legislation and standards of the Province or Territory of residence within the Department program authorities. On January 26, 2016, as a result of a 2007 Canadian Human Rights Act complaint, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal found the Department's Program to be discriminatory, and ordered the Department to cease its discriminatory practices and reform the Program. The Government of Canada accepted the Tribunal’s decision and is working with parties to the complaint and other partners to make immediate and long lasting changes to child and family services on reserve.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2019-20. 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).

Significant changes in scope and budget

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.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

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

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