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Stream 1a: The future of disability employment policy

The Disability Employment Centre of Excellence
The future of disability employment within the future of work policy
The Jobs and Skills Summit and the Employment White Paper
Digitalisation of employment services impacts on people with disability looking for work
National mental health reforms and improving employment outcomes
State, territory and local government disability employment policy and initiatives
The future of employment outcomes including 52-week outcomes and beyond
The Review of the Disability Services Act (1986)
Disability Royal Commission impact on the DES program
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities and Article 27
The future of ADEs and the transitioning participants to open employment
The future of employment via social enterprise and other programs – how do these fit together?
Community attitudes and closing the workforce participation gap for people with disability
Case studies of changing employer attitudes and practices

Stream 1b: The future of disability employment practice including better participant and employer strategies

Delivery of Quality Services and driving quality enhancement
The National Disability Employment Strategy and its interaction with disability employment services
Working with large employers – how to make the relationship work longer term
Marketing and branding in your employer community
Building disability employer confidence
Challenging perspectives: how the employer, jobseeker and provider can intersect
The role of ongoing support – the interface between employers and keeping people with disability in work
Challenging employers to use Disability Employment Services?
Better use of employer incentives including wage subsidies
The ‘burnt’ employer – how to reinvigorate the relationship
How can ‘Collaboration’ work more effectively across the broader sector?
Jobs and Skills Australia and interaction with People with Disability
Effective strategies for participants with disability who are registered with Workforce Australia
Innovate practices in working with employers
Current challenges in becoming an effective digital or hybrid employment service for people with disability
Training as the pathway to improved employment opportunities

Stream 2: The current DES program: compliance, outcomes, performance framework, operations

DES Star ratings and Performance Framework – where to now?
The new DES Quality Framework
Training and education as the pathway to improved employment opportunities
Improving DES guidelines: what works, what doesn’t
Ensuring the DES program works for participants and employers
Program assurance activity
The cost of running a DES in a ‘program assurance’ and ‘Right fit for Risk’ world
Employment outcomes, quality service and participant expectations
The future of mutual obligation and the targeted compliance framework
Attracting participants – the untapped referral pool – where and how?
Building the capacity of Indigenous people with a disability
The role of state, territory, and local government in disability employment
Choice and control and empowering participants
Engaging frontline staff: Person-centred approach, employer engagement and community
Innovation and working effectively in a competitive market model

Stream 3: NDIS – Open Employment, Employment supports and pathways to independence

The future of the NDIS and the NDIS review
NDIS Participant Employment Strategy
Better use of the DES program for NDIS participants
ADE to Open Employment
NDIS and DES – how to work collaboratively
The updated School Leaver Employment Supports and the link with DES
Understanding barriers to employment throughout a participant’s life
Exploring opportunities with participants, families, and the sector
Planning the right supports that lead to more confident entry to work
NDIS and better planning by services for participants
The increasing impact of the NDIS and employment in the disability sector
Participant choice and self-managed plans
Supports to connect young people to the workforce that are evidence-based, innovative, capacity building and outcomes-focused
Employment supports for mature aged participants
Evidence-based, innovative, capacity building and outcomes-focused supports that assist young people with disability find and keep a job.

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