AHCWA (Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia)’s Post

📣 Aboriginal Community Controlled Registered Training Organisations are key to ensuring that barriers to training and employment are overcome through place-based, community-led solutions. #calltoaction NIRRUMBUK ABORIGINAL CORPORATION

HumanAbility welcomes this morning’s announcement that the care and support industries will be the focus of the new Care and Support TAFE Centre of Excellence at Queensland TAFE’s Cairns campus.   The Centre will bring together stakeholders from industry, Jobs and Skills Councils, universities, unions and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island health councils.   This means that students studying aged care, disability support and mental health care will receive the high-level skills training needed to support these rapidly growing industries.   Importantly, the Centre will also partner with First Nations groups so it can deliver culturally appropriate and safe training pathways for First Nations students – an approach HumanAbility knows from our stakeholders is most urgent.    There are many significant outcomes that this Care and Support TAFE Centre of Excellence will help achieve for our workforces. You can read the joint Ministerial announcement here https://lnkd.in/g9R3payE   A big shout out to the federal Skills and Training Minister, Brendan O'Connor and his Queensland counterpart, Minister Lance McCallum MP and their governments for their commitment to investing in our future care and support students and workers. #HumanAbility #careandsupport #TAFE

Hurry!!!!! Be an advocate for Early Childhood Educators in Australia and submit a survey or consultation to include Early Childhood Educators in Core Skilled Occupation List(COSL) ON list. Unfortunately, Early Childhood Educators didn’t make it to the ON list despite being in a critical sector with extreme workforce shortage. CSOL will target the Skilled occupations that Australia’s workforce needs. Early childhood educators are in extreme shortage especially Diploma holder Group leaders. Please submit 3 min survey at the link below👇🏼before May 10th or consultation before May 31. https://lnkd.in/e79SaXi5

Explore the future of human resources in the public sector at #IRSPM2025, with Panel P06: Public Sector Human Resources It will discuss challenges and innovations in workforce management, focusing on how to build resilient, effective public organizations. #IRSPM2025 #PublicSector #HumanResources #Workforce #Innovation

AASW CEO Cindy Smith met with Federal Education Minister Jason Clare MP to discuss the Australian Social Work Education and Accreditation Standards (ASWEAS). These standards define the requirements for social work education programs in Australia, ensuring quality and consistency in preparing future social workers. The updated ASWEAS was officially released yesterday. It now applies to new education providers and will be implemented across all providers starting 1 January 2026. Learn more about the ASWEAS and its impact on social work education at https://lnkd.in/g-CbBAwa #AASW #SocialWorkEducation #ASWEAS

Hurry!!!!! Be an advocate for Early Childhood Educators in Australia and submit a survey or consultation to include Early Childhood Educators( Child care workers ANZSCO Code 4211 CHILD CARERS) in Core Skilled Occupation List(COSL) ON list. This list has ON, OFF list occupations and another list dependent on Consultation submissions from stakeholders. Unfortunately, Early Childhood Educators( Child care workers ANZSCO Code 4211 CHILD CARERS) didn’t make it to the ON list despite being a critical sector with extreme workforce shortage. CSOL will target the Skilled occupations that Australia’s workforce needs. Early childhood educators are in extreme shortage all around the country especially Diploma holder Group leaders. Please submit your consultations at the link below👇🏼 Jobs and Skills Australia welcomes feedback on the draft CSOL. The survey is open until Friday 10 May 2024, and submissions can be lodged until 5:00pm AEST on Friday 31 May 2024.

Dear Social Work friends As you may (or may not) be aware, the AASW has proposed some radically different, new education standards. While some flexibilities are definitely welcome and needed, other more extreme changes may seriously threaten the quality and future of social work in Australia. The poster below aims to make transparent some of these key changes, highlight the potential consequences, and advise on how you can join this social media campaign that aims to make the AASW reconsider... #socialwork #socialworkers #socialworkeducation #highereducation #AASW #socialjustice #placements #socialworkplacement #workintegratedlearning #diversity #equity #socialjustice #workforce #sustainable

Interesting to read the long awaited advice to ministers on qualification reform. The design group proposes three broad definitions of qualifications: • Purpose 1 – qualifications leading to a specific occupation (for example a licensed trade) • Purpose 2 – qualifications to prepare learners for multiple occupations within an industry • Purpose 3 – qualifications that develop cross-sectoral or foundation skills and knowledge which may be applied across industries, or lead to tertiary education and training pathways. The change from present seems to be purpose two, with a desire to support qualifications that could run across an industry to support mobility and reduce the current narrow competency specifications. I can see potential in areas like aged and disability care, and no doubt others. Broader specification of capabilities may require compromise on industry knowledge. Will follow this closely given the many reform attempts in recent years. Maybe this one, by shielding traditional trades, has a chance at adoption? https://lnkd.in/g8pJZZTp

📰 NEW blog 📰 Earlier this year we held an event to discuss the findings from our latest report on the future of #employmentsupport #policy in #Wales. This presented a timely opportunity to consider the landscape around #devolution of employment support policies across the UK and debate their implications for Wales. 🔎 Our research calls for a more robust approach to ensure that people are fully supported into work, and a better joined up strategy and partnership between the #UK and #WelshGovernment is a crucial step to tackling economic inactivity in Wales. Joshua Miles, Learning and Work Institute co-author of the report shares his insights and key takeaways in our latest blog. Read the blog on the link below: 🔗https://lnkd.in/eZaZK_4d Explore our research on employment support in Wales: 🔗https://lnkd.in/etujwBpc

If our ambitions for improvement to employment rates and lifelong employability are to be realised this advice must be essential reading for our new Govt