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Victorian Disability Workforce Environment Scan

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Key benefits

A review of the key influences on providers’ ability to recruit, skill and manage the workforce requirements to provide quality disability services and meet their business objectives.
Recommendations about how NDS could support service providers to manage their workforce issues arising in the COVID-19 context.
Australian employers across most sectors are raising concerns about their inability to recruit sufficient workers.

Who is this for?

Victorian providers, board, CEO, HR managers, senior leaders

Further information

Prepared by NDS, as part of the Victorian Safer and Stronger Project funded by the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing to support the Victorian disability sector through the COVID-19 pandemic.

The purpose of this disability workforce environmental scan is to review the key influences on providers’ ability to recruit, skill and manage the workforce requirements to provide quality disability services and meet their business objectives. This provides a guide for NDS to help address the workforce challenges and develop support priorities for 2022.

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Contact information

For any enquiries, please contact Lourdes Zamanillo, Senior Policy and Project Officer, lourdes.zamanillo@nds.org.au, 04 3174 9298