A University of Saskatchewan research team is wrong when it says the government hasn’t done much to fix foster home problems.
That’s the word from Social Services Minister June Draude.
The lead researcher on the team, Caroline Tait, says over the past 30 or 40 years, very little has changed in terms of child welfare in the province — even though reports published as recently as 2010 have called for big changes.
Draude says the government has been doing lots of things to improve foster care.
For example, she says the province is working more closely with Aboriginal groups:
“We’ve started by signing agreement letters with the FSIN and the Metis Nation that says we’re going to work differently with them, and work with them as partners.”
Draude says the research team should work with Social Services instead of criticizing it.