NDIS Launches First Ever Employment Strategy

The NDIS announced today, the launch of the first ever NDIS Employment Participation Program.

The strategy sets a goal to have 30 per cent of working age NDIS participants in meaningful employment by 2030.

National Disability Insurance Scheme Minister, Stuart Robert, said “This strategy is all about giving more people with disability, who have the desire and capacity to work, better access to the right supports to achieve their employment goals while breaking down barriers that they face trying to get a job”.

Using the announced strategy as their guide, the NDIA will work towards removing barriers for those wanting employment and assist participants to set and accomplish their own goals. NDIS participants and Planners will be encouraged to discuss from the beginning of their NDIS journey what, if any, employment goals they may have.

The five key areas of focus for the new Employment Strategy will be:

• Increase participant aspiration and employment goals in NDIS plans

• Increase participant choice and control over pathways to employment

• Increase marketing innovations that improve the path to paid work

• Improve confidence of employers to employ NDIS participants

• NDIS to lead by example as an employer

Source: NDIS