加拿大审计长报告：Nunavut 寄养照护系统根本弱点仍在 九成档案无每月探访记录
加拿大审计长办公室11月3日在 Nunavut 地区首府 Iqaluit 向该地区立法会提交报告，结论是地区家庭服务部没有及时、有效地提供寄养照护服务，未能保护和支持受照护儿童的安全与福祉。报告说，此前审计发现的许多根本弱点依然存在，包括与受照护儿童缺乏定期联系、寄养家庭的筛选与监督薄弱，以及儿童与安置信息不可靠。
审计发现，一项保护儿童的基本要求是每月与儿童和寄养照护者当面联系，但在抽查的档案中，超过90%没有证据显示这一联系得到保持；有5个个案超过一年没有与儿童联系的记录，其中一例间隔超过17个月。寄养家庭方面，部门在儿童入住前只完成了52%的必查家庭评估；年度复查缺失或不完整的占抽查个案的62%。44份儿童档案中有32份没有向照护者提供儿童的健康、家庭或创伤史等重要信息，新照护者开始领取定期付款的延误达37至415天。
副审计长 Andrew Hayes 表示，家庭服务部已采取一些初步改进措施，但在多年问题持续之后，关键是这些努力能否带来一线服务的持续改善。审计还发现，部门仍依赖手工整理的名单，因为其电子记录不可靠，无法形成关于受照护儿童人数与去向的单一可靠信息来源。
（来源：加拿大审计长办公室）
Auditor General: Fundamental Weaknesses Remain in Nunavut Foster Care, Monthly Contact Missing in Over 90 Per Cent of Files
A report from the Office of the Auditor General of Canada, presented on November 3 in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut in Iqaluit, concluded that the territory's Department of Family Services did not provide timely and effective foster care services to protect and support the safety and well-being of children. The audit found many fundamental weaknesses identified in previous audits remained, including failures to maintain regular contact with children in care, weaknesses in the screening and monitoring of foster homes, and unreliable information on children and their placements.
The department could not consistently demonstrate that required monthly in-person contact with children and foster caregivers was followed: in more than 90 per cent of the files examined there was no evidence the contact had been maintained, and in five cases there was no documented contact with a child for more than a year, including one gap of over 17 months. The department completed only 52 per cent of required home studies before children were placed, annual home reviews were missing or incomplete in 62 per cent of cases examined, and in 32 of 44 children's files caregivers were not given important information such as health, family or trauma history. Some new caregivers waited 37 to 415 days before regular payments began.
Deputy Auditor General Andrew Hayes said the department has taken some initial actions, but after years of persistent problems what matters now is sustained improvement in frontline services. The audit also found the department still relies on manually compiled lists because its electronic records are unreliable, leaving it without a single reliable source on how many children are in care or where they are placed.
(Source: Office of the Auditor General of Canada)
来源：加拿大审计长办公室
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