Disability Employment Services Performance to Be Rated on Scorecards

Published on July 10, 2024

Labor is set up to unveil a new scorecard system for disability employment services. The Disability Employment Services (DES) Performance Framework and Scorecards will come into effect across the nation, with standards set for disability employment service providers. There are 5.5 million Australians with disability—2.7 million of whom are of working age. The framework will monitor, measure, and drive continuous improvement of DES providers against an agreed set of key performance measures. It will be supported by scorecards, which will report provider performance against all measures of the framework every quarter. Providers will be given a score out of three for each domain and measure of the framework....

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