This project adapts the Work Integration Social Enterprise (WISE) model for the disability sector, and identifies factors that facilitate and inhibit pathways…
The Typology of Employment Support Interventions (TESI) provides a shared language and method for conceptualising, designing, commissioning, selecting and…
This report synthesises findings from research and roundtables about organisational inclusion of employees with disabilities. The findings reflect lessons…
This submission calls for a new approach to supporting people with disability into fairly paid work and urges the Australian government not to press ahead with…
This report finds that overall, universities do not appear to understand how students with disability think about their careers. It recommends a new funding…
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is one of Australia’s most ambitious public policy initiatives. This report recommends that the Australian…
The National Alliance of Capacity Building Organisations (NACBO) have developed this capacity building model. The model reflects the policy areas outlined by…
This document outlines a set of clear principles to aid and support the Australian arts and cultural sector to make decisions inclusively, and to go beyond…
Community attitudes related to disability-based discrimination and social exclusion impact the health and wellbeing of people with disability. This report on…
This paper focuses on income support and its impact on work incentives for persons with disability. More specifically, it looks at key issues and policy…
One important way Australians with disability are supported to find and retain a job is through a Disability Employment Service (DES). By tracking employment…
This research report describes the findings from a national survey of 357 disability support workers (DSWs) conducted online between May and June 2020.
The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Social Services’ arrangements for managing Disability Employment Services provider…
This paper draws on a review of Australian and international literature on disability employment and social procurement. Government publications examining…
This report is based on a nationwide survey of more than 2,300 responses from across the disability sector in March 2020. It reveals that a key concern for…
This plan aims to increase the representation of people with disability employed in the Western Australian public sector to 5% by the end of 2025, and support…
This paper explores the barriers to employment for people with learning disabilities, principally in relation to support for children and young people with…
This update examines whether the patterns comprehensively analysed in our February 2018 Australian Disability Workforce Report (available through the NDS…
The Community Services Outcomes Tree is a framework for capturing the outcomes individuals experience as a result of community services being delivered. The…
This article reports on the development and testing of a framework for measuring outcomes for the human services sector. The process included action research…
Ahead of the 2025 federal election, this paper calls on all political parties to commit to valuing quality and effective sector stewardship across disability…