The main objective of Child and Family Services is to keep families together.

Grandparents have a right to see their grandchildren while they are in the care of Child and Family Services.

Child and Family Services will often try to find extended family members that can care for an at risk child.

A child can by abused physically, emotionally and sexually.

Child and Family Services will also help parents learn to be better parents.

While being interviewed by Child and Family Services, the protocol is to for the Child and Family Services worker to ask leading questions to make sure the information given by the child is accurate.

Child and Family Services may be called in to care for a child in the event that a parent is confronted by a medical condition and cannot care for his / her child, and there are no family members that are available to provide care.

Child and Family Services is governed by the The Child and Family Services Act, as well as several laws set out by the Government of Manitoba.

Once a decision has been made by Child and Family Services, there is nothing a parent or other caregiver can do.

Children who cannot live with their parents or extended families will be placed with a foster family. A foster family is a family (or person) who can accept, support and care for them as their own.