In Ontario, if a child needs autism services, they’re put on a waitlist alongside 61,000 other kids. Meanwhile, 52,000 adults with developmental disabilities are stuck on waitlists for support. Children’s Aid agencies across the province are warehousing kids in motels and office buildings because there aren’t enough placements.
Waitlists. Broken promises. Crumbling social services.
Doug Ford has underfunded our community services to the point of crisis — and it’s pushing workers into poverty.
Social workers, child therapists, addictions counsellors, shelter workers, legal aid staff, and countless other frontline social services workers are some of the lowest paid workers in the public sector. Ford’s Bill 124 capped public sector workers’ wage increases at 1% at a time of skyrocketing inflation, forcing workers to turn to food banks, moonlight in second jobs, and rack up debt.
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