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Australia’s Disability Employment Services Program: Participant Perspectives on Factors Influencing Access to Work
- Source :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 11485, p 11485 (2021), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Volume 18, Issue 21, Pages: 11485
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2021.
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Abstract
- Disability employment programs play a key role in supporting people with disability to overcome barriers to finding and maintaining work. Despite significant investment, ongoing reforms to Australia’s Disability Employment Services (DES) are yet to lead to improved outcomes. This paper presents findings from the Improving Disability Employment Study (IDES): a two-wave survey of 197 DES participants that aims to understand their perspectives on factors that influence access to paid work. Analysis of employment status by type of barrier indicates many respondents experience multiple barriers across vocational (lack of qualifications), non-vocational (inaccessible transport) and structural (limited availability of jobs, insufficient resourcing) domains. The odds of gaining work decreased as the number of barriers across all domains increased with each unit of barrier reported (OR 1.22, 95% CI 1.07, 1.38). Unemployed respondents wanted more support from employment programs to navigate the welfare system and suggest suitable work, whereas employed respondents wanted support to maintain work, indicating the need to better tailor service provision according to the needs of job-seekers. Combined with our findings from the participant perspective, improving understanding of these relationships through in-depth analysis and reporting of DES program data would provide better evidence to support current DES reform and improve models of service delivery.
- Subjects :
- Employment
030506 rehabilitation
Service delivery framework
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Article
Unit (housing)
Odds
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Surveys and Questionnaires
Humans
Disabled Persons
030212 general & internal medicine
vocational
business.industry
Perspective (graphical)
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Australia
disability employment programs
Public relations
Investment (macroeconomics)
Disability employment
Work (electrical)
Vocational education
8. Economic growth
non-vocational and structural barriers to work
Medicine
paid employment for people with disability
0305 other medical science
business
Psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16617827 and 16604601
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 11485
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....edbd8fc148d6b4fdc4da5762ec60e52b