An evaluation of employment outcomes achieved by transition to work service providers in Sydney, Australia

Tianxi Xu; Roger J. Stancliffe

doi:10.3109/13668250.2017.1310809

An evaluation of employment outcomes achieved by transition to work service providers in Sydney, Australia

Tianxi Xu, Roger J. Stancliffe

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Abstract

Background: Very few studies have evaluated the performance of transition to work (TTW) service providers after the TTW program was implemented in New South Wales, Australia since 2005. This paper examines employment outcomes achieved by 35 TTW service providers in Sydney. Method: Descriptive statistics and chi-square were used to analyse the TTW outcome data. Results: We found that (a) there was a constant growth in the number of TTW program entrants and an overall increase in the employment rate of TTW clients; (b) many TTW service providers in Sydney served fewer than four clients annually on average; and (c) huge differences were evident in the employment outcome performance of individual TTW service providers. Conclusion: The TTW programme in Sydney allowed more school leavers to achieve employment. However, further research is needed to examine the associations between TTW program features and different employment outcomes to build an optimal TTW program.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	51-63
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability
Volume	44
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3109/13668250.2017.1310809
State	Published - Jan 2 2019
Externally published	Yes

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Funding Information:
The first author was supported by an Australian Government Endeavour Research Fellowship.

Funding Information:
This study analysed publicly available outcome data that has been reported and published on the ADHC website at NSW’s Department of Family and Community Services. The data is aggregated by service outlet and no data of any kind is available about individual clients. The authors used an ID number to code each TTW service provider and removed any information identifying providers before analysing the data. This processing of the data complies with ethical requirements for secondary data analysis. Given that existing collections of data that are non-identifiable and where research involves negligible risk may “be exempted from ethical review” (National Health and Medical Research Council, 2015, p. 42), this study did not require ethics approval.

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© 2017, © 2017 Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability, Inc.

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Transition to work
employment outcomes
intellectual disability
market
school leavers

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