Increase in subsidy recipients as welfare is reduced. Fraud and error control became a major focus of the Department of Family and Social Services. The provincial Day Care Program identifies its major goals for the first five-year plan. The plan supersedes advocacy as targets for action. The need for monitoring and accountability for quality of day care programs is not highlighted in any goal statement or planning document.
Department begins process of dismantling the welfare system.
Seventeen Regional Authorities are developed whose mandate will be complete control of all social services .