Session III: Sally Sinclair - Improving transitions for youth to further education, training and employment

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OECD Regional Network on Education and Skills:

Improving transitions for youth to further education, training and employment

Sally SinclairChief Executive OfficerNational Employment Services AssociationAustralia

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National Employment Services Association

Established in 1997 when Public Employment Services were contracted out

The national, peak industry association for providers in the employment and related services industry

Advocate for policy and programme change and improvement

Leads the national conversation on employment services

Members across jobactive, Work for the Dole, Community Development Programme and Disability Employment Services

Capacity and capability building across wider industry

Over 220 projects in the last year across remote Australia

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Key Youth Unemployment Challenges Facing Australia

Unemployment rate

School completion

Tertiary qualifications

Apprenticeship completion

Remote Indigenous Challenges

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What’s Being Done in Employment Services

Australia’s public employment services system is federally funded by one purchaser the Commonwealth government

jobactive, Disability Employment Services, Community Development Programme and other employment and related services

jobactive funding AUS $6.8 billion over 5 years

There are multiple providers across Australia ranging in size and profile

Our system is aimed at increasing employment participation, building skills in demand and helping individual job seekers

Contract arrangements and performance framework (KPIs) are designed to drive employment solutions at a local level in particular assisting disadvantaged job seekers

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Department of

Human Services

Centrelink

Job Seeker Payments and

Compliance

Employment Services Gateway

Complementary Programs

Mature Age

Indigenous Employment ProjectsSkills For Education &

Employment (SEE)Australian

Apprenticeships

Vocational Education and Training

Department of Employment

Department of Social Services

Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet

Community Development Programme

Current Framework

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Transition to Work and Vocational Education and Training

Transition to Work

Intensive, pre-employment support to improve the work readiness of young people aged 15–21 to help them into work or education

Will help around 29,000 young people each year who face a difficult transition to work and increased risk of long-term unemployment.

Vocational Education and Training

Six objectives for reform of the VET system including Apprenticeships being recognised as a career pathway

“The most important role of the Australian system is to link skilled workers with jobs.”

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Good practice or principles useful for the South East Asian region

We know what works

Local people, local jobs, local solutions

People do business with people: Relationships matter

Aligning plurality of views of needs, and of expectations locally, regionally and nationally

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Session III: Sally Sinclair - Improving transitions for youth to further education, training and employment