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8 The Canadian Statesman, Children's Aid Society Approves 1985 Budget Of $5,509,000 The Durham Children's Aid Society Board has approved a 1985 budget of $5,509,900, an increase of 19.7 percent over 1984 Society expenditures. This increase is recognized by the Society to be significant but is essential to maintain adequate child protection services in the face of a continuing continuing growth in demand for such service by the residents of Durham Region. At any one time the Society is providing residential care for over 200 children and the almost $2,000,000 budgeted directly for this purpose includes includes an increase of more than $360,000 and is the single largest area of increase within the 1985 budget. The almost 25 percent increase increase in child care costs reflects reflects the fact that children now coming into the care of the Society tend to have increasingly increasingly serious emotional problems which must be dealt with in increasingly costly residential settings. The second largest area of increase within the 1985 budget is related to salary and benefit costs. Salary costs have been budgeted to increase increase by 5.9 percent due to the addition of required staff in 1985 and the impact of additional staff hired during 1984. These additions have been necessitated by increased increased service demands which, for example, have seen sexual abuse referrals to the agency increase by 88 percent in 1984 over the 1983 experience. The budget also includes a general . salary increase : of four per- cent and the provision for the payment of salary increments at an additional agency cost of approximately one percent. The Society also approved the introduction of a staff dental plan at a cost of some one percent of 1984 salary costs. Together the cost of salaries for social work and support staff employed by the agency, and the cost of providing residential care for children living outside their homes represent almost 90 percent of agency expenditures. Within the remainder of the budget are such items as building rental and general office expenses. Also included is an item which has come under scrutiny and this is the cost of travel. This cost has been budgeted at $245,000 in 1985, an increase of 6.4 percent over 1984 expenditures. This category category includes the cost of reimbursing reimbursing staff and volunteers for the use of their cars. Reimbursement Reimbursement is made on the basis of mileage rates currently currently paid by the Provincial Government, which rates have not been increased since 1983. It should be noted that in 1984 volunteers drove more than half a million kilometers at a total cost of $103,000. Very slight increases in total travel and an anticipated increase of four percent in Provincial Rates contribute to the overall increase. Also included in the 1985 budget are a number of onetime onetime and capital items. The largest of these is the proposed proposed acquisition of computer equipment ($118,200) to cope with the combined demands of more cases, the need for quicker and more reliable management information and the high clerical load associated associated with the recording of information information required by the Provincial Government. The operations of the Children's Children's Aid Society are funded roughly 80 percent by the Province of Ontario and 20 percent by the Region of Durham. The Province, through the Child Welfare Act dictates the kinds of service, its timing and the reporting required. New cases must be handled in accordance with standards defined by the Government and the application application of these standards affects workloads throughout the agency both for social workers and the clerical support staff. Most increases within the budget can be attributed to two main factors, i.e. increases increases in population in the Region and an increase brought about by much greater public awareness of the general problems of child abuse. Although the Society hopes eventually to locate an office in the Town of Newcastle, services to the area are presently presently provided from the Oshawa office in the Midtown Mall. It should be noted that some 12 percent of the Region's approximately 115,000 children under the age of 111 live in the Town of Newcastle. In 1984 HI children were admitted to care from the area, a figure representing almost nine percent of the total number of children brought into care across the Region. ANILITY ruNI) WOIIKIN0WITM PIIVGICAI l.Y 0IÜAIII I D ADULTS Bowmanville, March 6,1985 Section Two : ROBOT rm mwor,^. •Changes from , robot to ud space vehicle ACRILAN® ACRYLIC YARN 100 g White and 12 colours SANI-FLUSH AUTOMATIC $, ; %y i ' ■/ BIMY BRAND JÜ JUBES or D.T. 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