Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01281:clause:1ab_481
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01281
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1AB cl 481
Character Range: 1206951–1210178

481       Home Care Workforce Support Program                                                                                                                  To support the aged care workforce, with a focus on home care, and to increase the skills of that workforce by providing funding to organisations and consortia to undertake activities, including the following:
                                                                                                                                                               (a) selecting and supporting suitable jobseekers to obtain employment providing home care services to older Australians;
                                                                                                                                                               (b) supporting new entrants to the home care sector to develop the skills, and to undertake the training, needed to provide home care services to older Australians;
                                                                                                                                                               (c) working with home care providers, employment services and registered training organisations to enhance the leadership capabilities of the existing aged care workforce to ensure new entrants to that workforce are adequately supported;
                                                                                                                                                               (d) providing additional targeted support to aged care providers, including residential care providers, in rural and remote areas where there are identified workforce shortages;
                                                                                                                                                               to give effect to Australia's obligations under one or more of the following:
                                                                                                                                                               (e) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 6;
                                                                                                                                                               (f) the International Labour Organization's Convention concerning Employment Policy, particularly Articles 1 and 2;
                                                                                                                                                               (g) the International Labour Organization's Convention concerning Vocational Guidance and Vocational Training in the Development of Human Resources, particularly Articles 1 to 4.
                                                                                                                                                               This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures for the provision of, or incidental to the provision of, unemployment benefits or benefits to students (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution).