Northwest Territories not meeting key duties in child services: auditor general
YELLOWKNIFE — Nearly two-thirds of foster care homes in the Northwest Territories don’t get basic screening before receiving children to look after, says a critical report from the auditor general’s office.
The report says the territory isn’t meeting key responsibilities to protect children in care and the situation is getting worse.
“We determined that many of the services provided to children and families in the Northwest Territories that we examined were in fact worse than when we examined them in 2014,” audit director Glenn Wheeler said in a release.
Glen Abernethy, the N.W.T.’s minister of health and social services, acknowledged the problems.