The Hon. Lisa Hanna, MP St. Ann South East and Minister in the Ministry of Youth and Culture. "Mr. Speaker, the truth is, it is costing the State J$1.7 billion a year to fund the Child Development Agency, more than the $1.4 billion which is allocated to the Ministry of Youth and Culture and its other agencies. We spend more than $436 million to operate eight Government-run children’s homes and places of safety which takes into account the weekly cost of $13,000 per child or $676,000 per child per year. We currently have 334 children at these facilities. At the same time the Government spends another $721 million per year or $6,000 per child per week as a subsidy to take care of the 1,823 children across the 48 privately operated children’s homes and places of safety. In addition to this the CDA also provides financial assistance to wards of the state in family environments including 950 children in foster care, 1,119 on Supervision Orders and 809 in the family reintegration programme."
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:15:22 +0000
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