Empowering YOUth Initiatives
Information Session
www.employment.gov.au
Overview
• The Empowering YOUth Initiatives
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Background to the initiative
Why focus on young people?
Target population
Eligible organisations
Funding arrangements
• Probity and purchasing arrangements
• Application and selection process
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Selection criteria
Other considerations (including responsibilities of applicants)
Lodging an application
Growing Jobs and Small Business Package
Build
employability
of young
people
Help
employers
take on
unemployed
young people
Strengthen
job seeker
obligations
What is Empowering YOUth Initiatives?
• Helping vulnerable young people in the transition to employment
• Not-for-profit, non-government organisations
• $50 million for innovative initiatives over four years
• Around 40 innovative and unique initiatives
o 20 initiatives for round 1
• Each initiative to run a maximum of 2 years
• Collaborating with the department to inform future service delivery
Section 2.1
Why focus on young people?
Young people are over represented in the unemployment
figures:
• double the national average with around 1 in 9 young people
not in work and not attending full-time education
• significant investments made but the issue of youth
unemployment remains
ABS Employment Data
35.0
Youth share of Long Term Unemployed (%)
Youth share of total (15+) population (%)
Almost
30% of
total LTU
Per cent
30.0
25.0
20.0
Just over
16% of total
population
(15+)
15.0
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10.0
Source: ABS, Labour Force, Australia, Detailed – Electronic Delivery, September 2015 (Cat. no.
6291.0.55.001). Data for the youth share of long-term unemployment are 12-month averages of
original estimates, while data for the youth share of the population are in original terms.
What is contributing to this gap?
• Less work experience
• Jobless families or families with a history of welfare dependency
– lack of role models
• Complex and significant personal barriers (homelessness, health
issues, history of offending)
• Living in areas of high social disadvantage or poor labour markets
• Negative perceptions of employers
Who will the Empowering YOUth Initiatives
target?
• People aged 15-24 years
• Long-term unemployed or at risk of becoming
long-term unemployed
• Not limited to those on income
• support
Empowering YOUth Initiatives - Round 1
• Young people in regional areas especially those
areas undergoing structural change or with high
levels of social disadvantage
• Indigenous background
• Young people from a Culturally and Linguistically
Diverse background
• Early school leavers
Section 2.1 and 2.4
Organisations Eligible to Apply
• Not-for-profit, non-government organisations
o Sole Traders
o Single organisations
o Group applicants
 Consortiums
 Joint Ventures
 Partnerships
 Other Alliances
• Not delivering an existing Federal Government
employment service
Chapter 4
How will the Empowering YOUth
Initiatives interact with jobactive?
• Complementary service to jobactive
o participation may meet or contribute towards a participant’s
mutual obligations
o jobactive providers may claim administration fees and
outcome payments for eligible participants in Empowering
YOUth Initiatives
• Disability Employment Services and Community
Development Programme
Section 2.6
Where can an initiative operate?
• No formal geographical boundaries
• Can be run across multiple locations including through online
services
• Job opportunities must exist in labour markets where the
young people may benefit
• Must have a suitable population to support the project
o 100 participants
o 1000 participants can inform Investment Approach to
Welfare
Section 2.7
Objectives of
Empowering YOUth Initiatives
1. Help young people at risk of long-term unemployment to find
and keep a job by:
a)
preventing unemployment among young people most at risk
b)
reducing the barriers to employment for young people who are currently
unemployed and at risk of becoming long-term unemployed, and
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Helping young people to stay in work to minimise the risk of long-term welfare
dependency
(cont)
Section 2.1
Objectives of
Empowering YOUth Initiatives (cont)
2. Identify innovative approaches that have the greatest
potential to improve employment outcomes for young
people
3. Promote learnings from the initiative to enhance
service delivery
Section 2.1
What is considered an innovative idea?
Organisations can propose any idea for
an initiative within the scope of the
Grant Guidelines that differs to existing
employment services and programmes
Section 2.2
Funding Categories
• Three funding categories (GST inclusive):
A. funding up to $500,000
B. funding of $500,001 to $1 million
C. funding of $1,000,001 to $2 million
• Organisations may submit proposals for up
to three innovative ideas
– limited to one per funding category
Section 2.3
Funding Arrangements
• First payment payable at time Funding
Agreement is executed – 40% of total initiative
funding
• Additional payments dependent on organisations
achieving milestones linked to key deliverables
Section 2.8.2
How will we learn from the initiatives?
• The Department will conduct an evaluation of the
initiatives
• Organisations will capture data and information for
evaluation purposes
o participant information (such as demographics)
o data and information specific to an initiative
Section 2.8.4
Empowering YOUth Initiatives
Probity and Purchasing Arrangements
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Grant Application Process Overview
Probity
Grant Process
Lodgement of Applications
Selection Criteria
Feedback
Purchasing Objectives
• Commonwealth Grant Rules and Guidelines
• Value for money principles
Probity Principles
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Fairness and impartiality
Consistency and transparency
Encouraging competition and participation
Identifying and managing conflicts of interest
Security and confidentiality
Compliance with relevant legislative obligations and
the Commonwealth Grant Rules and Guidelines
• Establishing and maintaining a clear audit trail
Section 5.3
Empowering YOUth Initiatives
Application and Selection Process
Application and Selection Process
• The four selection criteria
o Multiple initiative proposals
o one per funding category (A, B or C)
o separate responses for criteria 1 and 2
• Other considerations
• Application lodgement
Section 3.2
Selection Criteria
1. What is your proposed initiative?
• What is the issue/problem and what is your idea to
address this?
a) Preventing long term unemployment
b) addressing barriers to getting a job
c) sustaining employment
• Weighting: 35 per cent
Section 3.2
Selection Criteria
2. How will the initiative be conducted?
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The outlined service delivery approach is innovative
Engaging with the young people
Leverages community partnerships, and
Is informed by evidence/experience
Weighting: 35 per cent
Section 3.2
Selection Criteria
3. How is your organisation equipped to run
the initiative?
• Organisational governance and capability
• Weighting: 10 per cent
Section 3.2
Selection Criteria
4. Measuring progress and identifying learnings
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What will be measured?
How information/data will be collected?
Collaboration for evaluation
Weighting: 20 per cent
Section 3.2
Other Considerations
• Declaration of other funding
• Referees
– Multiple initiative proposals
• Responsibility of applicants
Chapter 3
Section 3.2.2 and 7.1.1
Application Lodgement
• Applications close at 5:00 PM on
Friday 18 December 2015
• 360Pro
• Attachments
• Amending a submitted Application
Chapter 7
Late and non-conforming responses
• Responses will be excluded if:
Lodged incorrectly or late
Not written in English
Not on the forms provided in the Grant
Guidelines pack downloaded from 360Pro
Section 7.1.2 and 7.2
Selection Process
• Registration and Conformance checks
• Assessment of selection criteria
• Quality Assurance
Chapter 5
Selection Process (cont)
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Chapter 5
Assessment
Review
Decision by the Delegate
Announcement of outcomes
Contracting with the Department
• Draft Funding Agreement
• Offer of funding
• ABN required
Appendix D
Timeline
13 November 2015
Grant Guidelines for first round of initiatives released on 360Pro
18 December 2015
Application period for first round of initiatives closes
February - March 2016
Successful applicants contacted and Funding Agreements signed
March 2016
Commencement of round one initiatives
Mid 2016
Process for second round of initiatives commences
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Sources of Information
• Grant Guidelines accessed via 360Pro
• www.employment.gov.au
 Includes Questions and Answers
• Employment Services Purchasing Hotline
 Phone: 1300 733 514
 Email: [email protected]