Helping Older Australians into work
The Coalition Government has announced two organisations that will help mature-age people in the Central West region of New South Wales who are looking for work or preparing for a new career path.
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The Career Transition Assistance (CTA) program will help older workers become more competitive in their local labour market through tailored, intensive workshops.
OCTEC Limited and VERTO Limited will deliver innovative and personalised strategies to work with mature-age participants to remove the barriers holding participants back from securing work.
To be competitive in the job market, in particular with technological change - mature age workers will need support to develop new, in-demand skills.
Without question, the Government recognises the contribution of mature-age Australians and, in many cases, their willingness to continue working.
This program will identify where older workers need assistance and put them on a path to building the skills employers need.
CTA is part of the Government's $110 million Mature Age Employment Package announced in the 2017-2018 Federal Budget.
CTA will commence on July 2, 2018. For more information visit: www.jobs.gov.au/career-transition-assistance.
Backing early learning and care for disadvantaged families
Thousands of families across regional and remote Australia and Indigenous communities are set for more support to access early childhood education and care as part of sweeping reforms from the Coalition Government.
The Government’s child care and early learning overhaul includes a $271 million Community Child Care Fund (CCCF) for more than 850 services to “break down barriers” to early childhood education and care.
The Government is backing the families who live in communities where access to quality, reliable early learning and child care isn’t always guaranteed.
These child care and early learning services have now been given additional support from the Government for the work they do to break down barriers for children and families.
The new targeted CCCF is a key part of the Coalition’s early learning and child care overhaul to ensure those services are more affordable and accessible for families who need them most.
This is about giving vulnerable children a strong start while supporting parents into work.
The CCCF will deliver $115 million to more than 700 outside school hours care, centre-based day care and family day care services eligible for the competitive round of funding for the next five years,
and $156 million for 151 mainly Budget Based Funded (BBF) child care services and Non-Formula Funded Occasional Care Services as part of the non-competitive round of funding.
From July 2018 families who use these services will have access to the same subsidies that assist other Australian families with the cost of child care and early learning.
Given that many of these services will receive subsidies per child for the first time, we have incorporated a ‘checkpoint’ three months into the package,
so we can assess whether the service has collected the level of subsidy anticipated and top-up the grant funding as needed to ensure viability.
For more information visit www.education.gov.au/childcare,
estimate your new subsidy, and complete the myGov Child Care Subsidy Assessment to start the switchover to the new child care and early learning system.”
Details about the Community Child Care Fund are available at www.education.gov.au/community-child-care-fund-0.
