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Fewer Manitoba Foster Kids In Hotels, But Might Still Have To Be Used: Minister

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 28 May, 2015 10:07 AM
  • Fewer Manitoba Foster Kids In Hotels, But Might Still Have To Be Used: Minister
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government says fewer foster children are being put up in hotels, but the accommodation may still have to be used occasionally.
 
Family Services Minister Kerri Irvin-Ross says the province has opened more emergency shelter beds and hired more workers in recent weeks.
 
Irvin-Ross has promised to stop using hotels to house kids in government care by June 1.
 
But she says more supports are needed in rural and remote areas, where she hopes to end hotel use by December.
 
Irvin-Ross promised last November to stop using hotel rooms when 15-year-old Tina Fontaine was killed after running away from the hotel where she had been placed.
 
Manitoba has about 10,000 kids in child welfare and the vast majority are aboriginal.

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