Why are we taking a stand?
- To ensure the best outcome for jobseekers or employees with disability and their employers
- To address poor quality service
- To prevent unnecessary instability in the Disability Employment Services sector
- To oppose the Government’s decision to enforce 80-86% of disability employment services providers re-tender for contracts in 2012
What do we want?
- A better deal for jobseekers and employees with disability, and their employers
- A realignment of Disability Employment Services with the Disability Services Act 1986
- For service quality to form a part of contract evaluation processes across the sector
- Stability in the sector through a reduction in the number of providers that have to re-tender to 15-20%
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For the government to develop more effective ways to meet their objectives of:
- Testing the market,
- Providing an opportunity for new providers to enter the sector, and
- Exiting poor service providers
- To work with the Government to realise the recommendations laid out in the 2011 DES Senate Inquiry Report