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Organisation

Department of Social Services (Australia)

Owning Institution:
Strategy

Employ my ability: disability employment strategy


This strategy provides a guiding framework for governments, employers and the broader community and aims to increase employment outcomes for people with disability.
Report

Safe and supported: the national framework for protecting Australia's children


This report outlines Australia’s framework to reduce child abuse and neglect and its intergenerational impacts.
Evaluation

Try, test and learn evaluation

Stephanie Cook, Yi-Ping Tseng, Cain Polidano, Guyonne Kalb, Abdullah Mamun, Shabbir Ahmad, Martin O’Flaherty, Jeff Borland, Stefanie Plage, Melindy Bellotti, Elizabeth Kennedy, Wojtek Tomaszewski, Mark Western

The Try, Test and Learn (TTL) Fund, established in 2016, trialled innovative approaches to reduce long-term welfare dependence among at-risk groups. The evaluation found the TTL fund was an appropriate model for generating insights into effective support methods. While short-term impacts were limited, the Fund is expected to effectively help vulnerable groups build capacity, overcome...
Report

NDIS Plan Utilisation Project: describing, understanding and explaining inequalities in plan utilisation


This report discusses a project with two aims: to quantify inequalities in NDIS utilisation and to assess whether exemplar scenarios can close these inequalities.
Report

Commonwealth study into NDIS Plan Utilisation: synthesis report


In 2020 the Department of Social Services commissioned a project to better understand the relationship between participants’ plans and the supports they wish to purchase and why participants might not use all the funds allocated in their NDIS plan. This report synthesises three related national studies.