Reporting to the MinistryFunding for Education and Community Partnership Programs (ECPP), and Care and Treatment Education Programs (CTEP) 2025-26
Key Changes for 2025-26:
Informed by several reviews and feedback from education sector partners across the province, the ministry is modernizing the Education and Community Partnership Program (ECPP), a component of the Complex Supports Allocation in the Special Education Fund. The implementation of a modernized approach to ECPPs aims to improve student outcomes, enhance access and the quality of education programs, reduce administrative burden, and provide greater flexibility to school boards to better meet changing student needs and local priorities.
To support students with complex needs better, the ministry is reconfiguring the current ECPP funding into two new components of the Complex Supports Allocation, beginning in the 2025 - 26 school year:
1. Education and Community Partnership Programs (ECPP) Component:
funding for students who have been court-ordered into a youth justice secure or open custody/detention facility, adult custodial facility serving youth, the Syl Apps Youth Centre or for those attending the provincial Child and Parent Resource Institute (CPRI) program.
Further details can be found in the Directives for Education and Community Partnership Programs (ECPP) 2025 - 26, Spring 2025, which provides direction to school boards on the funding of these programs.
Each school board’s ECPP component is set out in the Core Ed regulation.
2. Care and Treatment Education Programs (CTEP) Component:
formula-based approach for all school boards to provide education programs for
students who have a primary need for care and/or treatment. The CTEP is made up of the following two amounts:
CTEP Base Amount
Each school board receives the higher of a base amount of $300,000.00 or its 2024 - 25 ECPP care and treatment approved application amount adjusted for 2025 - 26 labour-related increases, as set out in the Core Ed regulation.
CTEP Per Pupil Amount
The CTEP Per Pupil amount is calculated as follows:
$3.70 x ADE
Further details can be found in the Directives for Care and Treatment Education Programs (CTEP) 2025 - 26, Spring 2025, which provides direction to school boards on the funding of these programs.
CTEP funding has been extended to all 72 school boards ensuring equitable access to this funding across the province. This will help address unmet needs and enhance access to care and/or treatment programming.
| EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS | |
| Directives: | Directives for Education and Community Partnerships Programs (ECPP), 2025-26 |
| ECPP Program Changes: |
Education and Community Partnership Programs (ECPP) School Board Request for Program Changes |
| ECPP Program Closure: | Education and Community Partnership Programs (ECPP) School Board Program Closure Form |
| 2025-26 ECPP Report Back: | Starting in 2025-26, boards are required to submit an ECPP Report Back to the ministry at the end of each school year. |
| 2024-25 Closeout Applications |
The following are PDF versions of the 2024-25 ECPP Closeout Application forms. School boards should contact their Regional Office contact for electronic versions. Complete this form if your ECPP Program is not a Divested Program. *Note: Each school board must contact their regional office to obtain their specific prepopulated electronic form. Closeout Application Form for an Education and Community Partnership Program (ECPP) for 2024-25 (DIVESTED ONLY) Complete this form if your ECPP Program existed prior to the creation of Education Programs (i.e., a divested program). |
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CARE AND TREATMENT EDUCATION PROGRAMS |
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| Directives: | Directives for Care and Treatment Education Programs (CTEP), 2025-26 |
| 2025-26 CTEP Report Back: | Boards are required to submit a CTEP Report Back to the ministry at the end of each school year. 2025-26 CTEP Report Back |
| 2024-25 Closeout Applications: |
Complete this form if your ECPP Program is not a Divested. *Note: Each school board must contact their regional office to obtain their specific prepopulated electronic form.
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To access the 2024-25 ECPP webpage click here.
