Disability awareness
Guide
Questions for Disability Employment Services (DES)
This document is intended to help prompt ideas and questions to ask when investigating a Disability Employment Service (DES) for a family member. It provides a list of questions to ask the DES in relation to the job seeker and their services. Questions can be adapted based on the individual’s unique circumstances. It also provides...
Guide
Supporting mental health in the workplace
This webpage contains information to help better understand mental health conditions and considerations for employers when supporting employees with mental health conditions. It includes links to disability awareness training and a conversation guide about making workplace adjustments.
Guide
Understanding disability: an overview for employers
A quick guide for employers who are thinking about employing people with disability. It covers the social model of disability, different types of disability, how to talk about disability, and the benefits of accessible and flexible workplace practice.
Guide
Starting to look for a job: a guide for young people with disability
Finding employment is empowering. It can build independence, skills and relationships. Sometimes though, it can be hard to know what kind of job you would like to do, or if your employer is inclusive of people with disability. This guide is to help young people with a disability get started in finding a job.
Discussion paper
Disability Discrimination Act 1992 review
A review to consider the options to implement the 15 recommendations from the Disability Royal Commission to modernise the Disability Discrimination Act and further changes to improve the experiences of people with disability. This issues paper outlines the changes being considered across seven topics including prevention of discrimination, inclusion in education and employment, and improving...