Objective 3 - Growing employment opportunities

• How important are the proposed actions – do you think they will make a difference?
• Is there is anything important missing?
• Is there anything that should be changed or removed?

Action area 3.1

Raise the awareness of disabled people and people with health conditions as a talent pool

1. Continue to promote the Lead Toolkit: a guide for employing disabled people, to more business sectors.
2. Launch and promote a new web-based employer hub that informs employers of services that are available to them to support employing disabled people and people with health conditions.
3. Continue to promote success stories about the employment of disabled people and people with health conditions.
4. Develop a multi-year media campaign that raises the awareness of employers about the benefits of employing disabled people and people with health conditions.

Action area 3.2

Promote industry partnerships and procurement for broader outcomes

1. Develop and provide guidance to help government agencies partner with industry, and work towards disability employment outcomes.
2. Expand the Te Heke Mai programme to disabled jobseekers. Te Heke Mai is an online tool that provides information and coaching for people starting a new job and their employers.
3. Identify and support career pathways for disabled people and people with health conditions in sectors that have long-lasting labour market issues
4. Bring employers, the Skills for Industry programme, Te Ara Mahi and disabled people together to co-design a partnership that trains and recruits disabled people and draws on wage subsidies to offset costs

Action area 3.3

Promote innovative enterprise development

Look at ways the Government can:

• help create new businesses that support employment of disabled people
• support disabled people and people with health conditions to take up work opportunities that are created by new technologies
• help encourage and support disabled people and people with health conditions to take up self-employment opportunities
• support customised job design for individual disabled people or people with health conditions.
• Provide clear guidance to disabled people and people with health conditions about how income is calculated for benefit abatement purposes, to support them in setting up new businesses or taking on part-time work.