children-and-family-services
Children and Family Services
Budget-vs-disclosure reconciliation by fiscal year. Budget is drawn from the General Revenue Fund estimates; disclosed is the sum of published grant payments, transactions, and contracts. Gaps typically live in operationally-independent entities (e.g. Alberta Health Services, universities) that consolidate into the ministry total but don’t disclose line-item payments via the Blue Book.
Data quality note
The largest absolute gap for this ministry is $1,287,050,000. Large gaps are expected when a ministry consolidates operationally-independent entities (AHS, universities, school boards) that publish financial statements but not transaction-level disclosures. See specs/data-quality-issues.md DQ-001 (ministry name merges) and DQ-016 (small-budget gap-pct overflow) for the known limitations.
| Expand | Fiscal year | Budget | Disclosed — Grants | Disclosed — Transactions | Disclosed — Contracts | Gap | Gap % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-2027 | $1,287,050,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,287,050,000 | 100.00% | |
| 2025-2026 | $1,226,513,000 | $126,842,245 | $502,628,600 | $53,310,792 | $543,731,364 | 44.33% | |
| 2024-2025 | $1,150,267,000 | $42,573,375 | $0 | $376,963,033 | $730,730,592 | 63.53% | |
| 2023-2024 | $0 | $76,273,593 | $0 | $97,416,215 | -$173,689,808 | — | |
| 2022-2023 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $22,583,659 | -$22,583,659 | — | |
| 2021-2022 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $30,251 | -$30,251 | — |