Podcasts Culture InFocus Child welfare apprehensions, birth alerts on the decline: Manitoba Families

Child welfare apprehensions, birth alerts on the decline: Manitoba Families

Published: Dec. 11, 2019, 7 p.m.

In this episode of APTN InFocus: The province of Manitoba which has the highest rate of kids in foster care says it’s slowly changing the way the embattled system works.

According to the province, there has been a 35 per cent reduction in birth alerts issued for moms and their newborns and an 18 per cent overall reduction in the number of child apprehensions compared to 2018.

Manitoba typically has 10,000 to 11,000 kids in foster care in any given year – 90 per cent are Indigenous.