The Department of Social Services is preparing the Disability Services and Inclusion Bill 2023 for introduction into Parliament. The exposure draft of the Bill, as well as further material detailing key parts of the Bill in plain language, Auslan and easy read formats are available.

This report takes a broad review of inequality and its impact on society. It carries out an in-depth analysis to determine the role demographic factors, such as age, gender, disability, location, education and employment backgrounds play in determining inequality. It does this through decomposition of the Gini coefficient.

Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is considered the most effective and evidence-based model of employment support for people living with mental ill-health. This framework aims to increase and retain IPS workforce availability, capacity, and capability to deliver IPS programs in headspace, ultimately improving vocational recovery outcomes for young people experiencing mental ill-health.

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) workforce has an average annual turnover rate of 17-25%, which is notably high compared to other similar sectors and across the workforce as a whole. BETA partnered with the Department of Social Services to investigate why turnover in the NDIS workforce is high and to design interventions to increase...

Significant steps have been made in the establishment of the National Disability Research Partnership, an ambitious and complex undertaking. This independent evaluation of the NDRP Establishment Phase provides feedback on achievements and suggestions for the NDRP's development.