More jobs for people with a disability: Ready Willing and Able

A new strategy was launched in February with the aim of helping to halve the gap in the unemployment rate between people with a disability and the overall community by 2016. The Ready, Willing and Able program requires the NSW public sector to take three actions to provide job opportunities for people with a disability. 

• Each of the NSW Government's super departments will identify and target at least 10 permanent positions over the next two years that are to be filled by people with a disability.
• Five per cent of the cadetship, apprenticeship and traineeship opportunities that are created in the NSW public sector will be reserved for people with a disability. 
• Each principal NSW government department must have at least one procurement contract with a registered disability employer in 2010-2011 and 2011-2012.

More information is available from National Disability Services.