by population, the Cowichan Tribes, has signed a co-ordination agreement that will see it assume full responsibility over youth and family services for its citizens. to have assumed responsibility for its child welfare services, following the Splatsin First Nation in the Shuswap region. It follows federal legislation in 2020 that allows Indigenous communities to manage their own child welfare systems, along with a provincial law passed in 2022 called the Indigenous Self-Government in Child and Family Services Amendment Act. Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu said that child welfare systems had taken Indigenous children away from their families and placed them in unfamiliar homes. Indigenous children and youth make up 67.9 per cent of children and youth in care in B.C.

Source: Daily Nation June 25, 2024 02:34 UTC