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Title: Australian Social Inclusion Agenda


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Australian Social Inclusion Agenda
  • All Australians should have the opportunity to
  • secure a job
  • access services
  • connect with others
  • deal with personal crisis
  • have their voice heard
  • Patricia Faulkner AO
  • Chair, Australian Social Inclusion Board
  • Presentation to ACOSS

2
Australian Social Inclusion Agenda
  • Early Government Priorities
  • Jobless families with children
  • Children at risk of long term disadvantage
  • Locational disadvantage
  • Addressing homelessness
  • Employment for people living with a disability
    or mental illness
  • Closing the gap for Indigenous Australians
  • Specific processes
  • Homelessness White Paper
  • Closing the Gap
  • National Mental Health Disability Employment
    Strategy

3
Australian Social Inclusion Agenda
Minister for Social Inclusion
Australian Social Inclusion Board
Governance arrangements
Social Inclusion Unit, Department of the Prime
Minister and Cabinet
4
The Boards role and priorities
  • Boards role
  • Advice and information to improve social
    inclusion outcomes
  • Consult widely and provide views on various
    aspects of social inclusion
  • Report annually on progress
  • Advice on specific matters referred by
    the Minister for Social Inclusion
  • Boards early priorities
  • Locational disadvantage
  • Children at risk of disadvantage
  • Jobless Families with children

5
Economic Downturn
Australias economic growth is forecast to
deteriorate
Actual and Forecast Growth in Real Gross Domestic
Product, Australia, 2000-01 2009-10
Sources ABS cat. 5204.0, Australias System of
National Accounts Updated Economic and Fiscal
Outlook, February 2009.
6
Economic Downturn
This will lead many more Australians to
experience unemployment, with workforce
participation also declining
Actual and Forecast Unemployment Rate, Australia,
2000-01 2009-10
Sources ABS cat. 6202.0, Labour Force Updated
Economic and Fiscal Outlook, February 2009.
7
Locational Disadvantage
Prioritised access to mainstream services
Glue to make place-based approaches work
  • Tailoring to physical and social circumstances
  • Building on community strengths
  • Examples of best practice
  • Standards for infrastructure

Initiatives in priority locations
8
Locational Disadvantage
Consider multiple disadvantages and overlapping
problems
Methodology for selection of priority locations
Consideration of scale -large versus small
locations
Working with state and local government
9
Locational Disadvantage
Consider multiple disadvantages and overlapping
problems
Methodology for selection of priority locations
Consideration of scale -large versus small
locations
Working with state and local government
New focus identifying neighbourhoods at risk
10
Children at Risk of Disadvantage
11
Jobless Families with Children
Percentage of working-age households with
children without an employed parent - OECD
countries 2000
Source UNICEF, Child Poverty in Perspective An
overview of child well-being in rich countries
(2007) ABS, 6260.0 Labour Force Projections,
1999-2016 (1999) ABS, 6202.0.55.001, Labour
Force, Australia, Spreadsheets Jan 2008
12
Jobless Families with Children
13
Jobless Families with Children
14
Communicating Social Inclusion
  • Respect and empathy for vulnerable groups
  • Positive identity in diverse communities
  • Respect and dignity in service provision
  • Awareness and understanding of social inclusion

Engaging the Community Messages and Values
15
Measuring Social Inclusion
Compendium of headline indicators
  • Targeting policy and information
  • Understanding what works
  • Maintaining commitment and engagement

Measuringprogress on Social Inclusion
16
Measuring Social Inclusion
Index for Social Inclusion?
  • Targeting policy and information
  • Understanding what works
  • Maintaining commitment and engagement

Measuringprogress on Social Inclusion
17
Looking forward
  • Next focus
  • Emerging priorities
  • Continue to promote inclusive approaches
  • Balance needs of newly disadvantaged without
    losing sight of deeply disadvantaged

Advice provided on early priorities
18
Partnerships and integration
Individuals and Families
Communities and Business
Governments
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