LLRIB To Provide After Hours Protection Services

Monday, December 20, 2010 at 15:11

The Lac La Ronge Indian Band has announced it will begin providing emergency child protection services after hours for children living off-reserve.

The group will also be looking after the communities Stanley Mission, Stony Rapids, Wollaston, Black Lake, Southend, Uranium City and Pinehouse.

The provincial government has signed off on the move.

Dexter Kinequon is the director of the band’s child and family services unit.

He says up to now there were two different agencies looking after cases in the local area.

The province would deal with cases off-reserve while they handled cases on reserve.

But now they’ll be handling both.

Meantime he says not much will change with how cases are handled in the far north.

He says their group would take the case though on the next available business day.

The new arrangement comes into effect January 1st.