{
  "description": "Archived Freedom of Information (FOI) documents and primary source materials for EndTheWaitOntario.com",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-10",
  "integrityNote": "Entries marked status 'pending-upload' have no PDF in this directory yet. Their 'archiveUrl' is a reserved path, not a live file — do not link to it publicly until status becomes 'archived'. Requests we have filed but not yet received are tracked separately at /what-we-asked-ontario.",
  "documents": [
    {
      "id": "oac-oap-at-a-glance-jul-2026",
      "title": "Ontario Autism Coalition - OAP At A Glance, July 2026",
      "description": "OAC summary of the Ontario government's response to its Freedom of Information request, reporting Ontario Autism Program figures as of May 13, 2026. Current canonical source for the site's headline statistics.",
      "filename": "oac-oap-at-a-glance-jul-2026.pdf",
      "requestedBy": "Ontario Autism Coalition",
      "releasedBy": "Ontario Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services",
      "foiReleaseNumber": null,
      "responseDate": "2026-05-13",
      "publishedDate": "2026-07",
      "jurisdiction": "Ontario Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services",
      "keyFacts": [
        "91,974 children/youth registered with the OAP as of May 13, 2026",
        "24,417 enrolled in Core Clinical Services - a broad measure that includes children who accepted a core invitation but have no funding agreement; not a count of children receiving services",
        "20,711 children (22.5%) with an active Core Funding Agreement",
        "71,263 registered children and youth waiting for core clinical funding",
        "Invitations reported by the OAC as reaching children registered in August 2021 - a minimum five-year wait for a child registering today"
      ],
      "liveSourceUrl": "https://www.ontarioautismcoalition.com/",
      "archiveUrl": "/data/foi/oac-oap-at-a-glance-jul-2026.pdf",
      "status": "pending-upload"
    },
    {
      "id": "mccss-foi-css2026-0749",
      "title": "MCCSS Bi-weekly OAP Progress Reports - FOI Release CSS2026-0749",
      "description": "Freedom of Information release covering the MCCSS bi-weekly Ontario Autism Program Core Clinical Services progress reports, December 10 2025 through March 4 2026",
      "filename": "mccss-foi-css2026-0749.pdf",
      "requestedBy": "Ontario Autism Coalition",
      "releasedBy": "Ontario Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services",
      "foiReleaseNumber": "CSS2026-0749",
      "responseDate": "2026-03-04",
      "jurisdiction": "Ontario Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services",
      "keyFacts": [
        "89,799 children registered with the OAP as of March 4, 2026",
        "20,633 children (23.0%) with an active Core Funding Agreement",
        "69,166 children waiting for funded services",
        "Active funding agreements fell by 33 between January 7 and March 4, 2026 while registrations rose 1,624"
      ],
      "liveSourceUrl": "https://www.ontario.ca/page/ontario-autism-program",
      "archiveUrl": "/data/foi/mccss-foi-css2026-0749.pdf",
      "status": "pending-upload"
    },
    {
      "id": "oac-foi-dec-2025",
      "title": "Ontario Autism Coalition FOI Data Release - December 2025",
      "description": "Freedom of Information request response containing Ontario Autism Program registration and enrollment statistics as of December 10, 2025",
      "filename": "oac-foi-dec-2025.pdf",
      "requestedBy": "Ontario Autism Coalition",
      "requestDate": "2025-11",
      "responseDate": "2025-12-10",
      "jurisdiction": "Ontario Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services",
      "keyFacts": [
        "87,692 children registered with the OAP as of December 10, 2025",
        "20,293 children (23.1%) with an active Core Funding Agreement",
        "67,399 children waiting for funded services"
      ],
      "liveSourceUrl": "https://www.ontario.ca/page/ontario-autism-program",
      "archiveUrl": "/data/foi/oac-foi-dec-2025.pdf",
      "status": "pending-upload",
      "corrections": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-08",
          "note": "Title, description and responseDate briefly corrected to March 4, 2026 after this entry was found carrying March data under a December label. That fix predated the dedicated 'mccss-foi-css2026-0749' entry above."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-10",
          "note": "Reverted to describe its actual December 10, 2025 data now that the March 4, 2026 figures have their own entry ('mccss-foi-css2026-0749') and the May 13, 2026 figures have their own entry ('oac-oap-at-a-glance-jul-2026'). The 'id' and 'filename' keep their legacy 'dec-2025' spelling because lib/data/waitlist-stats.ts WAITLIST_SOURCES.foi2025Archive references that exact path and that file is fact-frozen."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "fao-2024-mccss-review",
      "title": "Financial Accountability Office - MCCSS Spending Review 2023-24",
      "description": "Official FAO report analyzing Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services spending including OAP waitlist projections",
      "filename": "fao-2024-mccss-review.pdf",
      "publisher": "Financial Accountability Office of Ontario",
      "publishedDate": "2024",
      "liveSourceUrl": "https://fao-on.org/en/report/fa2305-mccss/",
      "archiveUrl": "/data/foi/fao-2024-mccss-review.pdf",
      "keyFacts": [
        "70,176 children registered as of March 2024 baseline",
        "Current funding insufficient to clear backlog at current enrollment rates"
      ],
      "status": "pending-upload"
    }
  ]
}