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Disability employment

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Inclusive employment
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Report

State of the disability sector report 2025


Disability service providers face financial losses, policy uncertainty and unfunded burdens like crisis response with most unable to sustain services at current prices. This report warns without urgent structural reform the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) risks losing quality providers and urges governments to ensure sustainable pricing and targeted support to secure disability services.
Video

Lunch & learn: engaged to empower


A recorded webinar focussing on strategies for creating sustainable, meaningful partnerships between employers and disability employment services. It highlights how strong, long-term relationships can improve workplace inclusion and opportunities for people with disability.
Video

Lunch & learn: ongoing support


This recorded webinar explores what meaningful, long-term support looks like in practice and its impact on people’s lives. Through practical examples, it shows how disability employment providers can make support effective using a person-centred, strengths-based approach.
Journal article

‘I don't think they've ever seen people like me do jobs like this’

Victoria Paraschak, Patricia Weir
Strengths-based employment services highlight the abilities of people with intellectual disabilities, challenging deficit-focused traditional orientations. These services foster hope, which plays a vital role in creating inclusive workplaces. This paper examines the presence of hope within strengths-based employment settings for adults with intellectual disabilities to understand its potential to establish inclusive workplaces.
Guide

What is supported employment?


This webpage provides an overview of the Australian approach to supported employment.