New Disability Employment Support Model

Carolyn Clarke

There should be more services for people who are disabled and more accommodation

Julie Couzens

disability employment support is a joke /non existent, my daughter is doing nothing because of that fact. One agency just dumped her saying she wasn’t…

Ashton Bartz

I am currently employed, but I received Centrelink and was engaged with a Disability Employment Service (specifically, HELP Enterprises) for roughly five years. I have…

Ross Green

In a word, the response process of the NDIS is a disgrace. We have tried to communicate with NDIS a number of times concerning our…

Janet Tobin

My son, Alex, has an intellectual disability and is 28 years old. He began working at a very well known fast food restaurant chain, near…

Julie Bennett

I wrote the following for NDIS employment support paper, but most of it relates to your Disability Employment Support model too. 1. Need more skilled…

Anonymous

As someone with a chronic medical condition which fluctuates unpredictably (systemic lupus Erythematosus) I notice government and organisations struggle to understand and support medical conditions…

Sarah Butler

Changes need to be made to disability employment services because people with disabilities are unable to maintain jobs due to employers having no understanding about…

Tina Samuel

I currently work a mainstream job 5 days a week with my disability. Looking for a job I found it incredibly frustrating how underskilled DES/CES/Joblink…

Susannah Pagliarella

My experience of disability employment has been a positive journey. After having my first child in 2015, I found it difficult to re-enter the workforce…

Anonymous

As a parent of a 34 year old man who has Down syndrome, I would like to ask that the situation of people like my…

Ada Yip

I worked as a Teacher or the Deaf for 25 years.

Dylan Abel

The current DES model fails for people with a disability through the lack of allocated resources, 1:1 support and a lack of incentive for the…

Nia Parker

My daughter is in open employment, paid at the award rate. Her DES found her the job in August 2020 and helped her learn her…

Laurelle Mamontov

Des services and ndis should be linked together. It would enable the participant to build their capacity to gain employment . With ndis the participant…