Fact sheet 10: New ways to attract, train and keep disability support workers

Fact sheet 10: New ways to attract, train and keep disability support workers FACT SHEET 10 For disability support workers New ways to The panel’s vision attract, train and We need a larger, more skilled workforce that can meet the future keep disability demand for quality services and improved outcomes. [...] Worker screening is inconsistent across states and territories and can be slow and complicated. [...] We recommend: solution? • Trialling portable leave and training so that the learning and training of support workers is more widely recognised and workers can build up leave balances across the care and support sector. [...] Disability support workers should benefit from better availability of training and access to portable leave, making it easier to work across the care and support sector, with more opportunities to progress their careers. [...] What We strongly recommend that support workers, their representative organisations, happens providers and people with disability and their families are closely involved in designing and next? testing the changes, to make sure they work well.