Listing the progress status of each action under pillar 4.
Actions under this pillar aim to ensure that people with disability have the benefit of good education and training and contribute to the economy as consumers, employees and employers.
4.1.1 Continuing the ongoing provision of the Kindergarten Inclusion Support program including for funded three-year-old kindergarten enrolments.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Education4.1.2 Providing flexible opportunities through School Readiness Funding including professional learning options and capacity building for educators provided by allied health professionals such as psychologists and speech therapists.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Education4.1.3 Drawing on the experiences of families with young children with disability or developmental delay.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Education4.1.4 Exploring options to build the knowledge and capability of the educator workforce in Victorian funded kindergarten services in supporting learning for children with disability.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Education4.1.5 Further developing transition-to-school processes and support for children with disability.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Education4.1.6 Improving how we use data to understand and respond to factors affecting access and inclusion.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Education4.1.7 Implementing the nearly $1.6 billion disability inclusion reforms across Victorian government schools including introducing a tiered funding model to ensure equitable access to education for students with disability. This will include universal, school-level, formula-based and student level funding.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Education4.1.8 Introducing the Disability Inclusion Profile, a new strengths-based process to determine a student’s functional access needs and the adjustments required to enable access, participation, and engagement at school. The Disability Inclusion Profile will determine personalised funding allocations for students with high support needs and provide trained facilitators to guide students, schools and families through the new approach.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Education4.1.9 Increasing access to specialist expertise, coaching, professional learning and support for government school staff, as well as Department of Education regional and area-based staff. Initiatives include inclusion outreach coaching for mainstream schools, the Diverse Learners Hub, and support for postgraduate study in inclusive education.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Education4.1.10 Continuing to support all Victorian government schools and participating Catholic and independent schools to implement and embed Respectful Relationships.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Education4.1.11 Developing resources to support career education and career planning for students with disability.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Education4.1.12 Developing resources to support workplace learning for students with disability.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Education4.1.13 Piloting the Industry Engagement for Priority Cohorts initiative for students with disability in three areas. This initiative will provide opportunities for students with disability in mainstream and specialist schools to gain exposure to a wide variety of industries and career pathways. This will be done through a range of activities, including mentoring by employers, workplace visits and bringing industry into the classroom.
This action has been reviewed and revised to: Piloting the Work-Based Learning for Priority Cohorts initiative to provide additional career counselling sessions and supported access to work experience opportunities for approx. 2,200 students experiencing disadvantage. This includes students with disability in years 9 and 10 in mainstream and non-mainstream schools.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Education4.1.14 Delivering a TAFE disability inclusion strategy to establish a high-level policy framework to give coherence to, and guide activity across, the TAFE Network. The strategy will give visibility to disability issues and ensure they are considered and included in developing and implementing TAFE policy that affects people with disability.
This action has been reviewed and revised to: A more cohesive and coordinated approach to disability inclusion in the TAFE Network will be delivered through the development of the Gordon's Centre for Excellence for Disability Inclusion which will embed best practice, research and evidence to improve access to education and the enhance the experience of students with disabilities.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions4.1.15 Implementing recommendations from the 'TAFE as a disability inclusive workplace' and 'Improving access and achievement for students with disability' reviews, led by the TAFE Disability Inclusion Working Group.
This action will be combined with updated 4.1.14 and reported as part of that action in 2026.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions4.1.16 Considering findings of the final report from the parliamentary inquiry into access to TAFE for learners with disability to further improve support available for TAFE students and to strengthen connections with Learn Locals for these students.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions4.1.17 Continuing to offer and subsidise AUSLAN courses through the Skills First program.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions4.1.18 Investing $207 million over four years to deliver the Fighting for Students with Disability and their Families package, to better support students with disability and their families attending Victorian government specialist and mainstream schools. The package comprises a range of initiatives to provide enhanced assistance to families and carers, allowing them to better access the assistance they require for their children’s education and broader support.
Status: New action
Agency responsible: Department of Education4.1.19 Piloting targeted supports for young people with disability aged 16 and under who have left school early. This will support secure connections and engagement with post-school education, training and employment pathways. Supports will be piloted from 2025
Status: New action
Agency responsible: Department of Education4.2.1 Supporting people looking for work, including people with disability, through Jobs Victoria services and creating jobs through the Jobs Victoria Fund.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions4.2.2 Building work readiness and supporting participants to transition into meaningful employment through the Impact21 initiative, a job readiness program for adults with Down syndrome or intellectual disability.
Status: Completed
Agency responsible: Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions4.2.3 Supporting an increase in direct government spend under the social procurement framework to benefit people with disability by:
- working with government purchasers to better support their understanding and awareness of the social procurement framework and its objectives
- providing advice and encouraging departments and agencies to include the ‘Opportunities for Victorians with disability’ objective as part of their approaches to market and in their social procurement strategies
- supporting a clearer understanding of how to meet the social procurement framework’s ‘Opportunities for Victorians with disability’ objective by developing materials for industry(suppliers) to promote and replicate examples of good practice, case studies and resources.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Government Services4.2.4 Exploring the capacity of the Microenterprise Program to deliver a dedicated stream for people with disability to support greater entrepreneurship and small business ownership.
Status: Completed
Agency responsible: Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions4.2.5 Holding a series of roundtables or meetings with stakeholders from the social enterprise sector. These meetings will focus on employment opportunities and support for people with disability to identify resource and capability needs and support their growth through implementing the new social enterprise strategy 2021 – 2025 and other opportunities including social procurement.
Status: Completed
Agency responsible: Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions4.2.6 Providing appropriate supports and resources for businesses around employing people with disability and addressing employer attitudes or perceived barriers. We will leverage relationships with existing stakeholders that work directly with employers such as Jobsbank and Social Traders.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions4.2.7 Developing, promoting and sharing best practice employee life-cycle resources to support inclusive recruitment, employment and career progression of employees with disability.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Victorian Public Sector Commission4.2.8 Expanding opportunities for young people with disability in the Victorian public service through the Jobs Victoria Youth Employment Scheme.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions4.2.9 Growing the Victorian Government graduate program disability pathway and scoping new pathways to employment for people with disability into the public sector.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Victorian Public Sector Commission4.2.10 Creating a mentoring program for public sector employees with disability.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Victorian Public Sector Commission4.2.11 Strengthening the collection of disability information and publishing progress toward the Victorian Government’s disability employment target of 12 per cent by 2025.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Victorian Public Sector Commission4.2.12 Developing and expanding education and employment pathways for forensic disability clients targeted to their goals and aspirations through partnerships with vocational organisations.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Families, Fairness and Housing4.3.1 Building on earlier work to ensure people with disability, including those from diverse and underserviced groups, are represented on Victorian public sector boards and committees.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Victorian Public Sector Commission4.3.2 Strengthening connections between the Victorian Disability Advisory Council and local government advisory committees to build coordinated efforts on emerging issues.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Families, Fairness and Housing4.3.3 Holding a series of roundtables or meetings with stakeholders from the social enterprise sector. These meetings will focus on employment opportunities and support for people with disability to identify resource and capability needs and support their growth.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Families, Fairness and Housing4.3.4 Working with the youth and community sectors to position the voices of diverse young people, including young people with disability, as key evidence in decision making across policy, practice and governance across a range of tertiary and acute services.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Families, Fairness and Housing / Fairer Victoria Engagement and Coordination4.3.5 Developing an evidence-based menu of youth engagement and youth led action models including a focus on young people with disability. All government departments and local government will draw on this to enable effective youth participation and leadership in government decision making.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Families, Fairness and Housing / Fairer Victoria Engagement and Coordination4.3.6 Establishing and expanding peer mentoring and support programs in rural and regional and outer suburban areas. This will focus on providing opportunities for young people from low socio-economic communities, Aboriginal young people, young people from refugee backgrounds, young people with disability, and young people with lived experience of unemployment, the care system and mental illness.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Families, Fairness and Housing / Fairer Victoria Engagement and Coordination4.3.7 Forming a partnership with a training organisation to provide a leadership program for people with disability. The aim will be to support new and emerging leaders to promote active citizenship and participation in elections .
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Victorian Electoral Commission4.3.8 Supporting leadership graduates (from action 4.3.7) to apply for paid roles as Victorian Electoral Commission Democracy Ambassadors. The roles will provide education and share their knowledge about democracy, how to vote, understanding the value of voting and how democratic processes affect service delivery requirements for people with disability.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Victorian Electoral Commission4.3.9 Delivering peer-led electoral education sessions across Victorian NDIS-approved services, specialist accommodation services and Australian disability enterprises.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Victorian Electoral Commission4.3.10 Co-designing an electoral education resource with people with disability to inform people with disability about active citizenship, democracy and the support available when enrolling and voting.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Victorian Electoral Commission4.4.1 Improving access to employment opportunities and promoting access and participation in the creative industries for people with disability through the Creative State 25 strategy by:
- involving people with disability in designing Creative Victoria programs
- offering dedicated funding streams that allow for access requirements, assessed by peers with disability
- piloting alternative models of support with peak disability arts organisations such as Arts Access Victoria
- improving access to cultural experiences through programs delivered by state-owned creative organisations such as audio-described, Auslan and autism-friendly cultural experiences and accessible digital content
- continuing to support and explore inclusive approaches to recruitment and employment for people with disability
- championing the content of people with disability through disability arts programs and events held by state-owned creative organisations
- developing and applying universal design principles for use by creative facilities and for all future state cultural infrastructure developments to improve access to physical and digital spaces.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions4.4.2 Reviewing the accessibility and inclusiveness of Creative Victoria’s business processes including communications, grant applications and assessments, events and recruitment.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions4.4.3 Developing diversity and inclusion targets and standards for Creative Victoria programs and a measurement framework to monitor progress.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions4.4.4 Encouraging and promoting cultural equity across government-funded creative organisations.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions4.5.1 Developing whole-of-government strategies to ensure awards and recognition initiatives are inclusive, accessible and actively target people with disability.
Status: Completed
Agency responsible: Department of Families, Fairness and Housing4.5.2 Engaging with people with disability to determine the best approach to fostering and promoting pride within the disability community including celebrating important days of recognition.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Families, Fairness and Housing4.5.3 Working with people with disability to understand community preference and good practice in the language used to describe disability. We will promote people's preferences across government and in the wider community as a tool to shift attitudes, foster inclusion and promote disability pride.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Families, Fairness and Housing4.5.4 Acknowledging the contributions made by Aboriginal people with disability through formal recognition on the Victorian Aboriginal Honour Roll and women with disability through formal recognition on the Victorian Honour Roll of Women.
Status: On track
Agency responsible: Department of Families, Fairness and Housing
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