Organisation
Department of Social Services (Australia)
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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
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.