The Child and Youth Advocate were visiting each Inuit communities last year to review on how the child protection systems are responding to Inuit children in care.
We spoke with Karen Gray who is the Director of Advocacy and Investigation with the office of youth and advocate.
They will be coming to Nain Tuesday September 3, 2019.
She says this report will be given to families, foster parents, and anyone who would like to find out about the independent review of child protection systems response to Inuit children.
Jackie Lake Kavanagh, Child and Youth Advocate, will release the independent review of the child protection system’s response to Inuit children on Wednesday, September 4 at 11:00 a.m. in the Pulapvik Conference Room, former LIA Building, 17 Sandbanks Road, Nain.
Grey says last year they began a review to services provided for Inuit children and they took a year and began the review in April 2018.
Part of the review they included with consulting in the Inuit communities, they visited communities in Makkovik, Rigolet, Postville, Nain, Happy Valley Goose Bay and North West River.
They listened to many stories of Inuit stakeholders and families, foster parents, the Nunatsiavut Government, Provincial and Federal Government.
During their visits to the Inuit communities they looked at file reviews for children who are in case.
They will be coming back to Labrador and are really hopeful to have a big turnout for this report and to hear the highlights.