$19.9M to help boost employment for people with disability
The Federal Government has injected more than $19.9 million of grants to boost employment for Australians with a disability via the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Information, Linkages and Capacity Building (ILC) grants, which will be launched early 2019. This additional funding supports the work of the new NDIS Participant Employment Taskforce.
Assistant Minister for Social Services, Housing and Disability Services, Sarah Henderson, hopes that the ILC grants will increase opportunities for economic participation for people with disability.
“We hope to see some creative and exciting proposals come forward through these grants including new and innovative ideas which complement Government’s established disability employment supports,” Ms Henderson said.
“This could include investing in volunteering as a pathway to employment, or activities which may assist people with a disability to pursue entrepreneurial routes to employment.”
