INDIGENOUS WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY:

The project is funded under the Indigenous Training for Employment Program (a partnership between the Northern Territory Government Department of Business and Employment and the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations). The program is to assist Indigenous adults of working age (15 years and over) in regional and remote communities of the Northern Territory.

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IMPLEMENTING THE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY:

A suite of Tools and Help sheets have been developed to support the aims of the strategy and guide the implementation process. They have been developed through research and consultation with Industry and Stakeholders as examples of best practice and suggestions on how to develop and implement Indigenous Employment programs. 

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Our Art, Our Place, Our Way is a set of resources for people who work in Aboriginal art centres or studios. The resource uses simple English language with photographs to provide step by step examples of many art centre tasks.

Several small videos give a desktop view of AMS, and show a short video of lino printmaking at Iwantja Arts.

The Accommodation, Cafés and Restaurants Industry employs over half a million workers in Australia and accounted for 4.7 per cent of the total workforce as at February 2008.  The industry is roughly divided into four sectors and includes Accommodation, Pubs, Taverns and Bars, Cafés and Restaurants and Clubs (Hospitality)1. The discussion below focuses on employment characteristics, trends and prospects in the Accommodation, Cafés and Restaurants industry, and highlights specific sectors where job growth is strongest. 

The Cultural and Recreational Services Industry is a relatively small employing industry in the Australian economy, employing 286 700 people (or 2.7 per cent of the total workforce) as at February 2008.  The industry is divided into ten sectors: Film and Video Services, Radio and Television Services, Libraries, Museums, Parks and Gardens, Arts, Services to the Arts, Sport, Gambling Services and Other Recreation Services1.

The Escan has been undertaken during a period of significant change in the global and national environment. The macro environment is one of economic deceleration and the likely prospect of a global recession in 2009.

Australia will inevitably be impacted on by the global economic downturn, although the extent of the impact is uncertain.  For the Australian labour market it foreshadows increased complexity. There will be areas of skill surplus, resulting in unemployment, co-existing with continuing skills needs in other sectors or regions. 

The environment scan (Escan) is one mechanism used by Innovation and Business Skills Australia (IBSA) to understand the skill needs within IBSA's industry sectors. 

IBSA's industry sector coverage comprises many enabling skills that are relevant to a wide range of industries. The Escan is consequently an important component of IBSA's intelligence gathering and advice processes.

All sectors of the sport, fitness, outdoor and community recreation industry work together to develop a workforce development strategy. Service Skills Australia works with industry to strengthen workforce development activity and drive improvements in training quality and flexibility.  

A single peak body representing all industry sectors be established to strengthen strategic planning and to drive improvements in training quality and flexibility. 

This document was developed to reflect the unique characteristics of tourism, hospitality and events and its considerable contribution to the Australian economy.  It has been developed in partnership with industry and reflects the key issues of the sector. 

The recommendations and key points described in this document reflect those issues highlighted in the industry's Workforce Development Strategy and provide data to support those and other arguments.

The objective of the 2009 Environmental Scan is to provide a strategic overview of the range of issues related to skill development in the service industries and to provide advice on future action. 

The Environmental Scan focuses on the need for standardised national data collection to improve measurement of training needs and outcomes Improvements in the quality of data, analysis and research, and evaluations, will further strengthen the policy formulation process.