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3 DEWR Rec'd 21/02/07 Australian Government i:'" Department of Employment and Workplace Relations JOINT COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT Review of Auditor-General's Reports, Nos.

35 to 52 (05/06) Audit report No.

49 - Job Placement and Matching Services Department of Employment and Workplace Relations 29 November 2006 QUESTIONS ON NOTICE JCPAA QoN Ref: 1 Australian Government '?
*"' Department of Employment and Workplace Relations Joint Committee of Public Accounts & Audit Question on Notice Question on page PA 3 CHAIR—Would you be happy if we took those [the Job Placement Monitoring Owner's Manual and the Job Placement Site visit checklist] as exhibits?

Answer The Job Placement Licence 2006-2009 is a public document and is available on the www.workplace.gov.au.

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The Job Placement Monitoring Owner's Manual and the Site Visit Checklist assist contract managers to monitor Job Placement Organisations (JPOs).

Both these documents are internal working documents written for DEWR contract managers and are not in an appropriate format for public release.

DEWR is developing a version of these to publish for JPOs.
JCPAA QoN Ref: 2 Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations Joint Committee of Public Accounts & Audit Question on Notice Question on page PA 3 Mr LAMING—As a follow-up, can I ask just how many people are devoted to maintaining that service within the department and the amount of resources directed to maintain Job Search.

Answer Expenditure for JobSearch is managed and formally reported on under Outcome 1, Output 1.2- Labour market and programme management delivery.
DEWR reports expenditure for Output 1.2 in the Annual Report.

JCPAA QoN Ref: 3 Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations Joint Committee of Public Accounts & Audit Question on Notice Question on page PA 9 Ms GRIERSON—On the job placement system, the findings were that people were not staying in jobs for very long, that three months or six months later they were not in a job.

Has that been improved?


Answer Analysis of outcomes shows that the vast majority of job seekers placed in jobs by Job Placement Organisations (JPOs) remain in employment at least three months after their placement.

Post Programme Monitoring (PPM) survey results show that, for 2005-06, around 72.2 percent of job seekers placed were in employment three months later.

This is steadily increasing as Table 1 indicates.

Table 1- Percentage of job seekers still in employment three months after job placement.
Year Percent 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 66.4 percent 69.8 percent 70.2 percent 72.2 percent DEWR does not conduct PPM surveys six months after placement.

However, off- benefit outcome data is an alternative measurement of job seeker circumstances six months after placement and this data shows that, for 2005-06, 73.1 percent of job seekers are still off benefits six months after being placed by JPOs.