The recent emerge of child welfare agencies that are managed by Indigenous communities across provinces and territories are intended to reduce the overrepresentation of Indigenous children in care. However, social services and child welfare agencies have a difficult time serving Indigenous children and families with complex needs and this further complicates the intergenerational effects of past colonialism (Evans-Campbell, 2008). Thus, for this reason the social policy concern that will be discussed in this paper is how the CFCSA (1996) fails to provide adequate services to responding to the overrepresentation of Indigenous children in care in British Columbia. The word adequacy “refers to the quality and completeness of service according
