The province said it will get 8,000 kids into core clinical autism services by the end of fall, but last month, that number was only 888.
Merrilee Fullerton, the minister of children, community and social services, has said the government would get 8,000 kids into core clinical services by the end of the fall, but as of last month that number was only about 888.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Bissett did not respond to follow-up inquiries asking for more of an explanation and if that meant those numbers would ever be provided again.“That’s not transparent and that’s not what families need or want,” she said. “They have such a failure of a program happening and they have such a failure of a rollout that now they’re hiding.”
Cameron is paying nearly $900 a week for part-time services and doesn’t know how much longer she has to plan to cover that, or if she needs to further scale back her daughter’s treatment, or perhaps make a new plan with the bank, she said. Of those 300 children, 30 had been enrolled in core clinical services since late July, officials said last month.
The government went back to the drawing board, but in the meantime more than 3,000 children who were receiving government-funded therapy through the former Liberal government’s old autism program were grandfathered in so the kids didn’t see a disruption in service.
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