Promoting Opportunities within Indigenous Communities

Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations

The Formation of DEEWR • The formation of the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations creates various service delivery and business opportunities.

• By offering an expansive range of services at critical points in people’s lives, the Australian Government is able to provide a ‘one stop shop’.

Having this type of seamless arrangement is essential in order to: - encourage early learning;

- keep kids at school; - link to vocational or higher education; - transition to a job; and- maintain a job.

The Formation of DEEWR • Significant opportunities exist to connect the wide range of DEEWR programs with particular focus on segments of the community that suffer systemic disadvantage.

Early childhood

School Post school

DEEWR Initiatives to Achieve Indigenous Economic Independence

Foundation Skills

Vocational education

Further education

Business support

Youth

Abstudy Working Age Payments

Income Support

Mainstream programs

Indigenous specific programs

Employment Service Providers

IEP, STEP, STEP ERS

WfD, LLNP, MULTILIT

Apprenticeships, traineeships, Tafe

University

Primary school

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Child Care

Pre School

CCB, CCTR, CCSP

CCSP (BBF)

Green Corp, JPET, STEP, IYEC, IYMP, YLP

Employment Services

The Example of Murdi Paaki

Profile of the Indigenous Community

National Indigenous Population: 517 200*

NSW Indigenous Population:148 200* or 28.7%

*Source: ABS estimates based on 2006 Census data

The Age Profile of the Indigenous Community in NSW*

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Indigenous Non-Indigenous

*Source: ABS 2006 Census data

Changes in the Youth Population for NSW (aged 15-19 years)*

2001-2006 2006-2011

Indigenous 21.6% 22.5%

Non-Indigenous -1.3% 0.6%

*Source: ABS 2006 Census data and DEEWR projections

Indigenous Youth Unemployment Rate and Education Participation Rate* Unemployment

RateEducation Participation Rate

Indigenous Youth

27.4% 38.4%

All Youth 11.5% 51.7%

*Source: ABS 2006 Census data

School Retention Rates*

Year of Schooling

Indigenous Non – Indigenous

Difference between Indigenous and non-Indigenous

Year 10 91.4% 98.9% 7.5%

Year 11 67.7% 88.8% 21.1%

Year 12 40.1% 75.9% 35.8%

*Source: ABS 2006 Census data

The Challenge Ahead – Closing the Gap “A future where we harness the determination of all Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, to close the gap that lies between us in life expectancy, educational achievement and economic opportunity.”

Apology to Australia’s Indigenous People

Childcare Programs

• Community Support • Inclusion and Professional Support • Child Care Benefit (CCB)

Education Programs

• Career Advice Australia (CCA) includes:

– Local Community Partnerships (LCP)• Extending industry leadership through a Network of

Regional Industry Career Advisers (RICA) and a Network of Industry Sector National Industry Career Specialists (NICS)

– Youth Pathways– Connections

Education Programs

• Indigenous Youth Mobility Program (IYMP)• Indigenous Youth Leadership Program (IYLP)• Increasing Vocational Learning Opportunities

for Indigenous Students (IVLOIS)• Australian Apprenticeships Access Program

(Access Program)• Indigenous Ambassadors Program

Education Programs

• Dare to Lead• Indigenous Staff Scholarship• Language, Literacy and Numeracy Program• Whole of School Intervention (WOSI) Strategy• Supplementary Recurrent Assistance (SRA)• Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme (ITAS)

Employment Programs

Structured Training and Employment Project (STEP)

• STEP assists employers to provide lasting employment for Indigenous Australians, particularly in the private sector.

• STEP Funding can be paid directly to employers or to organisations authorised to deliver STEP Employment and Related Services (STEP ERS).

STEP in Action

STEP on board the Tribal Warrior

Employment Programs

Indigenous Small Business Fund (ISBF)• ISBF provides funding for the

development and expansion of Indigenous business and enterprises owned and run by incorporated Indigenous organisations.

ISBF in Action

• Aerial Mustering Venture

Employment Programs

• Indigenous Youth Employment Consultants

(IYEC)• National Indigenous Cadetship Program (NICP)• Wage Assistance • Corporate Leaders for Indigenous

Employment Projects (CLIEP)

A Corporate Leader

Some of our CLIEP Signatories

Looking Forward

• The formation of DEEWR provide opportunity to

align services for groups who traditionally suffer from educational and labour market disadvantage.

Therefore the Department has an immense opportunity to streamline its programs so that Indigenous communities can benefit from a more holistic approach to addressing their disadvantage.

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