Details on transfer payment programs
Grant to the University of Saskatchewan for Forensic Research Centre
Start date: 1999
End date: Ongoing
Type of transfer payment: Named Grant
Type of appropriation: Estimates
Fiscal year for terms and conditions: No Terms and Conditions – Named Grant
Link to departmental result(s): 1.0 Care and Custody
Link to the department’s Program Inventory: P5 Mental Health Services
Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The purpose of this grant is to encourage graduate psychology students to choose the specialty of Forensic Psychiatry.
Results achieved: Increased pool of potential employees for CSC.
Findings of audits completed in 2023 to 2024: Not applicable because the Policy on Results (2016) indicates that audits / evaluations are not required for ongoing grants and contributions that have five-year average actual expenditures of $5 million or less.
Findings of evaluations completed in 2023 to 2024: Not applicable because the Policy on Results (2016) indicates that audits / evaluations are not required for ongoing grants and contributions that have five-year average actual expenditures of $5 million or less.
Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2023 to 2024: The targeted recipient group was University of Saskatchewan, graduate Psychology Students. No other initiatives to engage recipients undertaken.
Indigenous Offender Reintegration Contribution Program (IORCP)
Start date: 2021
End date: Ongoing
Type of transfer payment: Contribution
Type of appropriation: Estimates
Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2021 to 2022
Link to departmental result(s): 2.0 Correctional Interventions and 3.0 Community Supervision
Link to the department’s Program Inventory: P9 Community Engagement, P11 Elder Services, P22 Correctional Programs
Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The objective of the IORCP is to provide funding assistance to facilitate Indigenous offender reintegration support by strengthening community partnerships, enhancing community engagement and increasing awareness of CSC programs within communities.
Results achieved: Enabling agencies to enter into contribution agreements with Indigenous governing bodies, Indigenous not-for-profit organizations, and/or communities provinces, territories, municipalities, and non-profit organizations, towards projects that provide capacity and project management support for Indigenous offender community reintegration initiatives in a reasonable and cost-effective manner.
Findings of audits completed in 2023 to 2024: Not applicable because the Policy on Results (2016) indicates that audits / evaluations are not required for ongoing grants and contributions that have five-year average actual expenditures of $5 million or less.
Findings of evaluations completed in 2023 to 2024: Not applicable because the Policy on Results (2016) indicates that audits / evaluations are not required for ongoing grants and contributions that have five-year average actual expenditures of $5 million or less.
Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2023 to 2024: Applicants are engaged via well-established network both nationally and regionally with Advisory groups, Indigenous Governments and Indigenous non-profit organizations. CSC also uses its public facing webpage to provide information on the contribution program.
Correctional Service of Canada's National Infrastructure Contribution Program (NICP)
Start date: 2013
End date: Ongoing
Type of transfer payment: Contribution
Type of appropriation: Program is appropriated annually through the Estimates
Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2016 to 2017 and amended in 2021 to 2022
Link to departmental result(s): 1.0 Care and Custody, 3.0 Community Supervision
Link to the department’s Program Inventory: P7 Accommodation Services and P19 Community Residential Facilities
Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The objective of the NICP is that contributions are used, where appropriate, to assist CSC in addressing eligible infrastructure priorities in a cost-effective manner and to achieve the departmental strategic objective that “the custody, correctional interventions, and supervision of offenders in communities and institutions, contribute to public safety.”
Results achieved: Enabling agencies to enter into contribution agreements with provinces, territories, municipalities, and non-profit organizations, towards equipment, construction, and infrastructure works done by those bodies, where the agency cannot otherwise do so in a reasonable and cost-effective manner or through existing mechanisms.
Findings of audits completed in 2023 to 2024: Not applicable because the Policy on Results (2016) indicates that audits / evaluations are not required for ongoing grants and contributions that have five-year average actual expenditures of $5 million or less.
Findings of evaluations completed in 2023 to 2024: Not applicable because the Policy on Results (2016) indicates that audits / evaluations are not required for ongoing grants and contributions that have five-year average actual expenditures of $5 million or less.
Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2023 to 2024: Contributions were directed (no open call for applicants) to provinces, territories, municipalities, and non-profit organizations.
Explanation of variances
Expenditures were lower than forecasted for both the IORCP and NICP programs. This was partly due to delays in getting submissions from recipients.