History of aboriginal child welfare in canada
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Timeline of key dates
Resumption of Indigenous Jurisdiction over Children and Families
The historical timeline illustrates a klar and repeating pattern over the last 50 years: Indigenous communities and leaders work together to develop and articulate their own solutions and call for the resumption of jurisdiction over their children and families so they can implement those solutions; governments make promises and sign MOUs; then governments break their promises or offer a greatly diminished version of the original promise; then Indigenous communities and leaders regroup and start again.
Timeline for BC
1876
Proclamation of the Indian Act, giving the federal government control over most aspects of Indigenous peoples’ lives.
1920
An Indian Act amendment makes school attendance mandatory.
1951
An Indian Act amendment gives provinces the power to enforce their child welfare laws on-reserve, triggering the Sixties Scoop.
1974
The Indian Homemak
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History of Inequity
The Auditor General found that INAC’s funding formula for on-reserve child welfare services was outdated and leads to funding inequities The formula was designed in 1988 and has not been significantly modified since, despite changes in provincial legislation and changes to ways services are provided. The formula is not based on the needs of children and communities. For example, the formula assumes that each First Nations agency has 6-percent of on-reserve children placed in care. This assumption leads to inequities among First Nations agencies because in practice, the percentage of children in care varies widely.
The Auditor General also found that INAC has insufficient assurance that the funding its provides to First Nations agencies are meeting provincial legislation and standards. For example, in some provinces, some on-reserve First Nations children were not receiving prevention or in-home services and were instead being placed into care, d
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Aboriginal child protection
Services designed for protection of the children of indigenous peoples
Aboriginal child protection describes services designed specifically for protection of the children of "aboriginal" or indigenous peoples, particularly where they are a minority within a country. This may differ at international, national, legal, cultural, social, professional and program levels from general or mainstream child protection services. Fundamental human rights are a source of many of the differences. Aboriginal child protection may be an integral or a distinct aspect of mainstream services or it may be exercised formally or informally by an aboriginal people itself. There has been controversy about systemic genocide in child protection systems enforced with aboriginal children in post-colonial societies.
International
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