Vocational Education and Training (VET) and employment assistance services for people with disabilities 008-02020000

For a young job seeker to access disability employment assistance services and be participating in a school based apprenticeship or traineeship concurrently, the apprenticeship/traineeship must be a state or territory funded Vocational Education and Training (VET) program.

If a job seeker is participating in school based work experience or other VET programs funded by state or territory governments and the program is provided as part of the Australian Apprenticeships Access Program (Access Program), the job seeker is not able to participate in disability employment assistance services at the same time.

Eligible job seekers who are registered with a Workforce Australia provider or Disability Employment Services (DES), and who have a suitable business idea, may be referred by their provider or DES to participate in the Self-Employment Assistance for specialist small business services and training. See Referring a job seeker to Disability Employment Services (DES) for further information.

Disability employment assistance services are able to help students with disabilities, who have the capacity to work for a minimum of 8 hours a week with intervention, where the student is:

• of legal working age and is working, or intends to work part-time outside of school hours at award-based wages
• in the last 6 months of school and is considering post-school options/employment opportunities, or
• participating in a formal school-based apprenticeship and traineeship, where assistance can be provided for the on-the-job component

Disability employment assistance services cannot assist school students where the student is undertaking work experience or other education and training activities that are part of the school curriculum.