Towards more efficient and responsive employment services: ACOSS submission to APESAA
February 2012
ACOSS' submission to the inquiry on how Job Services Australia (JSA) and Disability Employment Services (DES) purchasing arrangements can be streamlined to reduce red tape and improve the responsiveness of these systems to jobseeker and employer circumstances and needs.
ACOSS' submission focuses mainly on JSA, although many of the comments equally apply to the DES system. However, ACOSS does not, at this stage, support the integration of these two systems due to the risk that the benefits of specialisation in disability employment services would be lost.