91,974
children are registered in the Ontario Autism Program
Source record
20,711 children hold an active Core Funding Agreement.
The subset of the register with money actually flowing.
Record card
Primary source- Figure
- 20,711
- As of
- May 13, 2026
- Publisher
- MCCSS Ontario Autism Program figures, May 13, 2026, obtained by the Ontario Autism Coalition under Freedom of Information
Reviewed August 2026 · next review 2026-11-05
What the figure counts.
Every child or youth with a signed, active Core Funding Agreement on the reporting date — the government's own record of who currently has clinical funding in place, out of everyone registered.
What it is not
It does not count children who have been invited or assessed but have no signed agreement, and it does not measure how much funding was delivered or which services a family purchased with it.
Derivation
Every derived figure, shown as the arithmetic.
Share of the register receiving funding
20,711 ÷ 91,974 = 22.5%
Rounded to one decimal place.
Change since the prior published column
20,711 − 20,633 = +78
Two published MCCSS totals: March 4, 2026 and May 13, 2026.
Gap to the broader enrolled count
24,417 − 20,711 = 3,706
Enrolled children still without a signed funding agreement.
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Citation
20,711 children held an active Core Funding Agreement under the Ontario Autism Program as of May 13, 2026, out of 91,974 registered. MCCSS Ontario Autism Program figures, May 13, 2026, obtained by the Ontario Autism Coalition under Freedom of Information.
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Evidence for this record
MCCSS bi-weekly OAP Core Clinical Services progress reports (FOI release CSS2026-0749)
Primary source for registration, enrollment, and funding agreement counts; corroborated by CBC News.
CBC News freedom-of-information investigation into Ontario Autism Program bi-weekly progress reports
Bi-weekly OAP progress reports covering late June 2024 through early January 2026, obtained through freedom of information. CBC published the January 7, 2026 column; the current canonical figures come from the later May 13, 2026 column released to the Ontario Autism Coalition, so this entry is the historical column, not the source of the current counts.
Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services: Spending Plan Review (2024)
Authoritative government analysis of MCCSS spending including OAP allocations.
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Facts2
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22.5%
Only 20,711 children have active funding agreements (22.5%), less than one in four
Last system verification: 2026-08-10. Next scheduled update: 2026-11-05.
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