Disability Open Employment Services

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Disability Open Employment Services
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Welfare to Work Helping People with a
Disability Into Work
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• Overview
• 173.6 million for 21 000 new places for
  Disability Open Employment Services (DOES) over 3
  years
• up to 4,000 additional places for existing
  stream DOES capped to be allocated to existing
  DOES providers on extension of funding agreements
  to 30 June 2009
• More than 16,000 additional places for new
  stream DOES uncapped

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New stream DOES uncapped

• To assist job seekers with participation
  requirements and low level transitional support
  needs to gain and maintain sustainable employment
• Access to places will be demand driven
• These new places, as with the capped places, will
  also be subject to an outcomes and performance
  based funding model, adapted from the fee
  structure used in the capped stream.

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• DOES uncapped Client group
• New uncapped places for job seekers with a
  disability who have an
• assessed work capacity of 15 hours to 29 hours a
  week as determined by comprehensive work capacity
  assessment and
• ability to work independently at full award wages
  in the open labour market
• within two years with employment assistance

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• Interaction between capped and uncapped places
• Job seekers on DSP up to 10 May 2005 remain
  eligible for capped place
• Job seekers granted DSP between 11 May 2005 and
  30 June 2006 may become eligible for uncapped
  place
• Transitional arrangements

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• Comprehensive Work Capacity Assessment
• Job seekers will be referred to a DOES provider
  through a CWCA provider
• The referral to a CWCA provider for an assessment
  is made by either a DOES provider or Centrelink
• Job seekers must have a current CWCA to be
  eligible for DOES uncapped places
• Centrelink will still determine the income
  support payment of the job seeker according to
  the result of the CWCA

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Services to be provided

• Intake phase
• Provide overview of services available
• Activity Agreement, DPI and vocational profile
• Employment assistance phase
• Training/counselling/ approach employers
• Support in first 13 weeks of employment
• Employment placement phase
• Low level transitional support

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Activity Agreements

• Job seekers in the DOES uncapped places will be
  required to enter into Activity Agreements
• First element specifies job seekers obligations
  for access to income support
• Second element sets out assistance or
  intervention plan agreed between the provider and
  the job seeker
• Reporting to Centrelink

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Payment model for Uncapped places
Employment placement phase
Employment assistance phase
Intake Phase
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• Employment Assistance Phase Employment
  Milestone fees
• Intermediate employment milestone fees based on
  the achievement of 10 hours work per week
• 4 week intermediate employment milestone fee
  paid after employment of at least 4 weeks and 40
  hours
• 13 week intermediate employment milestone fee
  paid after employment of at least 13 weeks and
  130 hours
• Minimum of 10 hours must be worked in each week
  to count towards the employment milestone fee

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• Employment Assistance Phase Employment
  Milestone fees continued
• Full employment milestone fees based on the
  achievement of 15 hours work per week
• 4 week full employment milestone fee paid after
  employment of at least 60 hours within 4 weeks
• 13 week full employment milestone fee paid after
  employment of at least 195 hours within 13 weeks
• Minimum of 10 hours must be worked in each week
  to count towards the employment milestone fee

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• Employment Placement Phase Employment Outcome
  fee
• Two rates of employment outcome fee full and
  intermediate
• Intermediate employment outcome fee paid after
  employment of at least 26 weeks and 260 hours
• Full employment outcome fee paid after employment
  of 390 hours within 26 weeks
• Minimum of 10 hours must be worked in each week
  to count towards the employment outcome fee

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• Employment Placement Phase Additional Outcome
  fee
• Payable when an additional 13 weeks of work is
  achieved after the original 26 week employment
  outcome fee and the job seeker is working
• 30 hours or more per week for at least an
  additional 13 weeks or
• more than 15 hours per week and earning a wage
  that results in a total reduction of income
  support payments.

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Performance management framework

• Quality Assurance
• Key Performance Indicators
• Star Ratings system

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Contract management approach

• Performance Monitoring
• Code of Practice
• Service Guarantee

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• Selection Criteria
• Demonstrated performance in delivery of DOES or
  similar services
• Proposed strategies to achieve outcomes for DOES
• Local strategies to promote, sustain and enhance
  the delivery of DOES at an ESA level

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• Bidding for business
• One form completed for each Labour Market Region
• Generalist OR specialist OR generalist/specialist
  bids only
• Can nominate an essential ESA
• Mandatory to complete QA section and all three
  selection criteria

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• Business Allocation
• Minimum/maximum market share generalist and
  generalist/specialists only
• Actual number of referrals is not guaranteed by
  DEWR
• Preference may be given to providers servicing
  the entire ESA and all disability types

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• Next Steps
• Exposure Draft is a working document
• All updates to information about Exposure Draft
  and RFT on Employment Services Purchasing
  website www.workplace.gov.au/ESpurchasing

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• Next Steps (continued)
• Email comments toemploymentservicespurchasing_at_de
  wr.gov.au
• Phone comments to 1300 733 514Employment
  Services Purchasing HotlineMon-Fri 9am-5pm
  EST/EDT (not public hols)
• Post comments toJodie Sexton-BockCommunications
  ManagerEmployment Services Purchasing
  TeamDepartment of Employment and Workplace  
  RelationsPO Box 9879Canberra   ACT   2600

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• Purchasing Timeline
• Release draft funding agreement 5 September 2005
• Comments - Exposure Draft due 16 September 2005
• Comments draft funding agreement 19 September
  2005
• RFT released early October 2005 (Free download
  from www.tenders.gov.au Austender website)
• Tenders close early November 2005
• Funding agreement offers released March 2006
• Funding agreements commence 1 July 2006