NESA Annual Report- 2021/22

Shaping

Australia’s
employment
services
sector

Multiplying

Workplace
Diversity

Expanding

Influential
advocacy
and global
Engagement

Adding

thought
leadership

Transforming

through
sector
development

Shaping

Australia’s
employment
services
sector

Multiplying

Workplace
Diversity

Expanding

Influential
advocacy
and global
Engagement

Adding

thought
leadership

Transforming

through
sector
development
Innovate

Making a positive difference in the futures of participants, employers, communities, and the Australian economy requires innovative and strategic thinking.

Collaborate

A core group of providers recognised the value of collaboration and the need for capacity building in this new era of outsourced public employment services and formed NESA. Their underlying principle was to ensure the sector had strong representative support and an influential voice.

Transform

Transformation through reform has seen the Australian employment services sector grow into a mature and sophisticated, albeit consolidated, sector since Australia adopted a fully outsourced employment services model in 1998.

Supporting People
With Disability
People with disability in Australia face considerable inequity and disadvantage in realising their human rights and ambitions to live a normal life. For many people living with a disability, economic exclusion is experienced alongside social exclusion.

The Disability Employment Services (DES) program was introduced to support people with disability find and keep a job, and from 1 March 2010 the program has undergone transformation through a range of significant changes. These include those introduced in the 2018 reforms which had the objective of increasing program performance. Continuing with this transformation through reform approach, government in consultation with key stakeholders is developing a new disability employment services program to improve the employment outcomes of people with disability.

NESA has advocated for the design of the new program to be evidenced based to ensure it delivers the best possible outcomes for people with disability, their families and their communities.

United with a shared purpose, NESA has been working collaboratively with the other disability employment peak bodies for the betterment of future disability employment supports and policy and program settings.