Monique Taylor, NDP Children and Youth Services critic, issued the following statement about Doug Ford\u2019s latest broken promise to families of children with autism.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce again Doug Ford has hurt kids with autism. He\u2019s already put families through hell over the last year by denying access to the services their children need. Because of his cuts, autism workers have been fired and services are almost impossible to access for so many families \u2013 especially those in northern and rural communities. Now Ford is breaking yet another promise and dashing hopes by delaying the start of the new Ontario Autism Program by yet another full year. Interim funding that\u2019s not needs based and falls well short of what\u2019s needed just doesn\u2019t cut it, especially when it\u2019s harder than ever to find services. Any further delay in implementing needs-based autism programming is completely unacceptable and could irreparable damage so many children\u2019s developmental potential. \u00a0We need to start rebuilding capacity immediately. Children need access to services now, not at some unspecified date in the future.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monique Taylor, NDP Children and Youth Services critic, issued the following statement about Doug Ford\u2019s latest broken promise to families of children with autism. \u201cOnce again Doug Ford has hurt kids with autism. He\u2019s already put families through hell over the last year by denying access to the services their children need. Because of his …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorials"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 10:39:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26793,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26792\/revisions\/26793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}