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School Leaver Employment Support (SLES) – reshaping the approach
This paper collates the existing data available on School Leaver Employment Supports, and on the experiences of young people with intellectual disability seeking school to work transition. It identifies employment support needs aligned to best practice evidence.
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The ADE Snapshot
This paper collates the existing data available about Australian Disability Enterprises, adding new data to identify the current state of the ADE sector.
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The WISE-Ability Model
This paper presents a new model for Australian Disability Enterprises: the WISE-Ability model. The model articulates the organisational elements that build capacity of employees including pathways to open employment. The paper also identifies data from research about the funding barriers to transitioning employees from ADEs to open employment.
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The logic for reform: employment for people with intellectual disability in Australia
This paper is an overview of research undertaken by the Centre for Social Impact related to the employment needs of people with disability over several years, in addition to a substantial body of research related to social enterprise.
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What works: making Disability Employment Services (DES) work for people with an intellectual disability
In late 2021, Inclusion Australia partnered with the Australian Government Department of Social Services to deliver a series of practical workshops about Disability Employment Services and people with an intellectual disability. This report distills the messages from these workshops and makes 23 recommendations.