May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry
May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry
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B.D. MCKENZIE - DR.EX. (OLSON) MAY <strong>31</strong>, <strong>2013</strong><br />
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vulnerable communities across that country.<br />
Q Okay. In terms of the, the costs and the<br />
services to provide the, the, the programming to people<br />
that's required, the community supports, how, how would you<br />
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see that being done?<br />
I mean, we're, we're not talking<br />
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about that being provided through the child welfare system,<br />
are we?<br />
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Well, some of those services, I think, can be<br />
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provided through the child welfare system but it requires<br />
other kinds of investments as well.<br />
Q Okay. In your article you talk about purchase<br />
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service agreements.<br />
there?<br />
What's, what are you contemplating<br />
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I'm not sure where we referred to purchase<br />
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service agreements, but I would see the, the non-government<br />
sector as having an important role to play. I want to make<br />
it clear, though, that that doesn't sort of involve taking<br />
money away from the child welfare system and providing it<br />
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to the non-government sector.<br />
It means sort of providing<br />
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funding to both.<br />
It's not an either/or question here if<br />
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we're going to have a good interface of services.<br />
It<br />
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demands what we would sometimes refer to as a whole-ofgovernment<br />
approach where we have the enhanced capacity of<br />
the child welfare system, we have education, health systems<br />
working in collaboration with the health -- with the child<br />
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