| Disability Employment Network
The Disability Employment Network,(DEN), aims to assist
jobseekers with a disability to gain and maintain employment
in the open employment market or to become self employed. They
provide training, job placement and on-the-job support. Each year
DEN helps more than 46,000 people with moderate to severe
disabilities find and keep work.
The Australian Government's Welfare to Work reforms announced in
the 2005 Budget introduced new measures to address the needs of
people with a disability. The DEN program will help implement these
measures through the introduction of the new 'uncapped' stream that
will aim to increase workforce participation among working age
Australians by focusing on a person's capacity for work. As a result,
from 1 July 2006 the DEN program now has two streams:
Capped- will provide services to people with eight or more
hours per week work capacity who require long term support in the workplace
or to people unable to work at award wages.
Uncapped- will provide services to clients with a work
capacity of 15 to 29 hours per week and an ability to become
independent in the workplace withing two years
CVGT has been successful in attaining an uncapped DEN contract
in the Goulburn Valley(Victoria).
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