Reformed Approach to Child and Family Services - March 2024

2 Principles Best interests of the child: The best interests of the child must be a primary consideration in structuring and implementing the Reformed Funding Approach and the Fully Reformed Funding Approach, ensuring that actions taken in the context of reform promote and protect the best interests of the child. [...] the importance to the child of preserving the child’s cultural identity and connections to the language and territory of the First Nations group, community, or people to which the child belongs; 6. [...] child and family services provided in relation to a First Nations child are to be provided in a manner that does not contribute to the assimilation of the First Nations group, community or people to which the child belongs or to the destruction of the culture of that Indigenous group, community or people; and 5. [...] REFORMED APPROACH TO CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES March 2024 Needs-based services: Decisions made, and services provided, pursuant to the Reformed Funding Approach shall be responsive to the actual and changing needs of First Nations children, youth, and families, accounting 7 for historical disadvantage and the structural drivers that cause and perpetuate child maltreatment and the distinct circumst. [...] The Caring Society welcomes the expert advice of the EAC and recommends that the EAC reports directly to Chiefs in Assembly and to the Tribunal on its work and views of Canada’s risk of recidivism and the sufficiency of safeguards to detect and address discrimination.