Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

Disability employment service providers play a very, very important role in assisting people who live with disability to get jobs and to stay in jobs. As part of the original announcement by the government in March supporting people with disability and recognising the challenges that the COVID crisis was going to present to them, we announced a $61 million funding package to support disability employment services to ensure that they were able to continue to provide support to people with disability through this unprecedented time.

Disability service providers are reporting strong numbers of people who are being placed into employment and supported in jobs for in excess of 26 weeks. We know that if we can get somebody into work for a longer period of time, the chances of them remaining in employment are so much higher than they otherwise would be.