There is no base line safety net which each authority is mandated to provide. This move towards regionalization directly reflects the corporate principles described above. In theory, this system represents the ultimate in distribution of power and bottom-up control. The system is simple and incremental. Reviewed service plans and revised goals will direct development.
Diversity is implicit.
In Alberta, there will be seventeen Authorities with different systems based upon seventeen uniquely community-oriented needs. Change and growth are built into the system as membership on Authorities changes and new needs are recognized and dealt with. They are the community. They set their own standards. For some programs regionalization may work well, but this is not true for the child care system.