Actions and Commitments

Call to Action # 1: Child Welfare (1-5)

Emergency Meeting on Child and Family Services

January 25, 2018

Emergency Meeting on Child and Family Services between federal and provincial and territory government officials and leaders of Indigenous groups. Priorities:

  • Continuing the work to fully implement all orders from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal;
  • Shifting the programming focus to prevention and early intervention;
  • Exploring the potential for co-developed federal child welfare legislation;
  • Supporting Inuit and Métis Nation leadership to advance culturally-appropriate reform;
  • Developing a data and reporting strategy with provinces, territories and Indigenous partners; and
  • Accelerating the work of trilateral technical tables that are in place across the country.