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Inclusive Employment Australia Guidelines — Part B: Servicing Requirementsv1.1, effective 24 November 2025

    1. Inclusive Employment Australia Guidelines
    2. Guideline Interpretation and Glossary
    1. Supporting Documents for this Chapter
    2. 1.1. Chapter Overview
    3. 1.2. General eligibility criteria
    4. 1.3. Special eligibility criteria
    5. 1.4. Referral of Participants
    6. 1.5. Direct Registration of Participants
  1. 2. Assessments9 sections
    1. Supporting Documents for this Chapter
    2. 2.1. Chapter Overview
    3. 2.2. Job Seeker Assessment Framework
    4. 2.3. Job Seeker Snapshot and Job Seeker Classification Instrument
    5. 2.4. Employment Services Assessment
    6. 2.5. Skills Assessment
    7. 2.6. Ongoing Support Assessments (OSAs)
    8. 2.7. Workplace Modification Services Assessment
    9. 2.8. Supported Wage System Assessment
    1. Supporting Documents for this Chapter
    2. 3.1. Chapter Overview
    3. 3.2. Commencements
    4. 3.3. The Initial Engagement Period
    5. 3.4. Transfers
    6. 3.5. Suspensions and Volunteer Periods
    7. 3.6. Exits
  2. 4. Job Plans10 sections
    1. Supporting Documents for this Chapter
    2. 4.1. Chapter Overview
    3. 4.2. What is a Job Plan?
    4. 4.3. Provider obligations
    5. 4.4. Entering into a Job Plan
    6. 4.5. Setting an Employment Goal
    7. 4.6. Contents of a Meaningful Engagement Job Plan
    8. 4.7. Contents of a Detailed Job Plan
    9. 4.8. Review and Agreement of the Job Plan
    10. 4.9. Updating a Job Plan
    1. Supporting Documents for this Chapter
    2. 5.1. Chapter Overview
    3. 5.2. What are participation requirements?
    4. 5.3. Provider obligations
    5. 5.4. Capability Management Tool
    6. 5.5. Meaningful Engagement Requirement
    7. 5.6. Attendance-based Engagements
    8. 5.7. Job Search
    9. 5.8. Job Interviews
    10. 5.9. Job Referrals
    11. 5.10. Personal responsibility for reporting attendance
    1. Supporting Documents for this Chapter
    2. 6.1. Chapter Overview
    3. 6.2. Pre-Employment Support
    4. 6.3. Movement within Pre-Employment Support
    5. 6.4. Movement between Pre-Employment Support and In-Employment Support
    6. 6.5. Support to be provided to Participants
    7. 6.6. Participant Contact
    8. 6.7. Relocation Assistance
    9. 6.8. Employer Engagement and Support
  3. 7. Activities9 sections
    1. Supporting Documents for this Chapter
    2. 7.1. Chapter Overview
    3. 7.2. Types of Activities
    4. 7.3. Identifying suitable Activities
    5. 7.4. Managing Participants in Activities
    6. 7.5. Complementary Activities
    7. 7.6. Specified Activities
    8. 7.7. Other Activities
    9. 7.8. Ensuring Participant safety
    1. Supporting Documents for this Chapter
    2. 8.1. Chapter Overview
    3. 8.2. Eligibility
    4. 8.3. Wage Subsidy Levels and Participant Employment Benchmarks
    5. 8.4. Negotiating the Inclusive Employment Australia Wage Subsidy
    6. 8.5. Payments to Wage Subsidy Employers
    7. 8.6. Claims for Reimbursement
    8. 8.7. Managing Wage Subsidy Agreements for Wage Subsidy Participants
    9. 8.8. Record Keeping
    1. Supporting Documents for this Chapter
    2. 9.1. Chapter Overview
    3. 9.2. Post Placement Support
    4. 9.3. Movement to Post Placement Support
    5. 9.4. Participant Contact
    6. 9.5. Employment Outcome conditions
    7. 9.6. Moving between Post Placement Support and other phases
    8. 9.8. Employment Assistance Fund
    1. Supporting Documents for this Chapter
    2. 10.1. Chapter Overview
    3. 10.2. Levels of Ongoing Support
    4. 10.3. Determining the need for Ongoing Support
    5. 10.4. Ongoing Support Assessments
    6. 10.5. Support to be provided to Participants
    7. 10.6. Participant Contact
    8. 10.7. When Ongoing Support can be provided
    9. 10.8. When Ongoing Support is not needed
    10. 10.9. Additional considerations for Ongoing Support (Work Assist) Participants
    11. 10.10. Support to be provided to Employers
    1. Supporting Documents for this Chapter
    2. 11.1. Chapter Overview
    3. 11.2. Employment Benchmarks
    4. 11.3. Service Fees
    5. 11.4. Progress Fees
    6. 11.5. Outcome Fees
    7. 11.6. Moderate Intellectual Disability Payment
    8. 11.7. Ongoing Support Fees
  4. 12. Compliance9 sections
    1. Supporting Documents for this Chapter
    2. 12.1. Chapter Overview
    3. 12.2. Meaningful Engagement Requirement non-compliance and associated actions
    4. 12.3. Targeted Compliance Framework
    5. 12.4. Compliance actions - Mutual Obligation Failures
    6. 12.5. Compliance actions - Work Refusal Failures
    7. 12.6. Compliance actions - Unemployment Failures
    8. 12.7. DSP non-compliance and associated compliance actions
    9. 12.8. Record Keeping
    1. Supporting Documents for this Chapter
    2. 13.1. Chapter Overview
    3. 13.2. Recognising challenging behaviour
    4. 13.3. Managing a challenging behaviour Incident
    5. 13.4. Reporting Incidents of challenging behaviours
    6. 13.5. Post-Incident contact
    7. 13.6. Key steps before applying a Managed Service Plan
    8. 13.7. Creating a Managed Service Plan
    9. 13.8. Servicing Participants with a Managed Service Plan
    10. 13.9. Additional considerations for transfers
    11. 13.10. Record Keeping

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