beyond exploring at the edges: why addressing disadvantage
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Beyond Exploring at the Edges: Why Addressing Disadvantage is an
Economic Development Agenda (more than a welfare agenda)
Dr Ingrid BurkettDirector of Systems Innovation
TACSI
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Concentrating impact across the life course
A Great Start Living Well
Reaching Potential
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Disadvantage: Moving from inner to outer
city
Source: Chris Loader, Charting Transport
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“….little has been achieved over the past 16 years to alleviate difficulties in the most (disadvantaged) areas of Australia”.
(ABC review of Vinson, 2015)
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What we know about place-based
disadvantage in Australia
What we spend on addressing place-
based disadvantage
Shifts in addressing place-based
disadvantage
~18% increase p.a
over the past 5 years
~150 published reports p.a.
5 to 9 localities in each state
remaining in the
top 12
consistently for
20 years
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Framing
Entrenched Disadvantage is an Economic Issue,
not a Welfare Issue
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Geelong Region Opportunities for Work
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Grow Local Jobs
Ensure that People in target areas have the best possible
opportunity to access those jobs
Ensure Broad Local Ownership + Measurement
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SMEs represent over 95% of the regions local
businesses, employ more than 50% of the
workforce
Around $18.5 B spend (public + private) on
goods & services in the region - around $8.6 B on goods & services source
in local region.
Ensuring local people have the opportunity
+ support to access jobs
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An Economic
Shift: Shift in
Local Spend + jobs bias into target
communities
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A Cultural Shift: Addressing Regional Inequality + Disadvantage becomes EVERYONE’s Business
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Job Creation is the easy part.
The hard part is creating opportunities for people who have been excluded from the labour market for long periods.
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High Unemployment
vs. Entry Level Vacancies
+ 20K people on the books of JobActive
(across the region) in Jan 2017
VS.
150+ entry level positions in
manufacturing, cleaning, call centres
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‘ENGAGEMENT GAP’
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If I can’t fill entry-level positions I can’t grow or
compete
If I can’t get a job I can’t
break the cycle
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$/hr
Hrs/wk
Stability
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180 Programs
to Address Disadvantage
including Youth Unemployment
~4,000 young people unemployed in Greater
Dandenong
of these, - ~1000 unemployed for 12+
months- ~520 for 24+ months
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Person Job
Management + Matching
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Job
Person
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Scale does not equal more programs….
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Job
Person
EmploymentServicesSystem
WelfareSystem
EducationSystemJustice
System
Child Protection
System
AODSystem
MigrationSystem
HealthSystem
Disability ServicesSystem
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transactional outcomesperson + job = outcome
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Transformational outcomesperson +
quality job + living wage +
pathways to address other issues =
transformational outcomes
Transformational outcomes = opportunity to get onto a pathway out of disadvantage
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Transformational Outcomes for employees: transferability of
employability, skills, self-concept, intergenerational transfer
Coststo employers in
recruitment, training & productivity loss
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