The Coalition Government will help even moreyoung people improve their work-readiness and get a job by expandingeligibility for the successful Transition to Work employment service.
Transition to Work provides intensivepre-employment support for young people aged 15-21 years to improve theirwork-readiness and help them into work (including apprenticeships andtraineeships) or education.
The expansion of the eligibility age forTransition to Work will allow disadvantaged young people aged 22-24 toalso benefit from the service.
Minister for Jobs and Industrial Relations,the Hon Kelly O'Dwyer MP, said expanding eligibility for Transition to Workwill give even more young Australians the opportunity to get a job.
"Under the Coalition we have seen more than1.2 million new jobs created, but we want to see even more Australians inwork," Minister O'Dwyer said.
"Whilst we have made progress, youthunemployment remains too high and some young people need targeted and intensiveassistance to help them move into work or education."
"Over the three years it has been operating,more than 79,000 young people aged 15-21 have commenced in Transition to Work,achieving over 32,300 employment and education outcomes. We want to see moredisadvantaged young people benefit from the intensive support offered by theservice."
Transition to Work will remain voluntary, withyoung people able to choose to participate in jobactive instead. Theeligibility change is expected to benefit more than 2,000 young people aged22-24 annually and will better align the service with the Government's broadersuite of youth-specific programs, including Youth Jobs PaTH.
"Importantly, this new measure does not changeother aspects of Transition to Work eligibility, which will ensure the serviceremains targeted to young people who will benefit from the intensive serviceprovided," Minister O'Dwyer concluded.
Funding for this measure was included in theNew Employment Services pilot and transitional arrangements measure announcedin the 2019-20 Budget. It will commence from 1 January 2020.
For more information about Transition to Work,visit www.jobs.gov.au/transition-work
