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Additionally, directorates can negotiate with the training panel of providers to develop courses to meet identified professional development needs. Individual Performance Agreement reviews are one mechanism for identifying the professional development needs of staff for whom English is their second language.
The Community Services Directorate also requires all new staff to complete its ‘Writing for Government’ training and recently introduced an ‘Easy English’ training program to share the principles of using Easy English, plain English and clear written communications.
The ACT Government also funds a part-time Multicultural Learning Coordinator through Libraries ACT to deliver services to the ACT community, including free English conversation classes.
The ACT Language Services Policy outlines the ACT Government’s commitment to acknowledging the use of language services by staff is a justifiable and necessary expense. Each Directorate has an obligation to plan and budget for interpreting services to ensure services are available when the individual need arises.
Disability services—government employment
(Question No 2905)
Ms Le Couteur asked the Chief Minister, upon notice, on 14 February 2020:
(1) How is the ACT Public Service (ACTPS) Inclusion Employment Program incorporating agreed recommendations from the Standing Committee on Health, Ageing and Community Services inquiry into the employment of people with disabilities.
(2) How many ACT government directorates have disability employment action plans; if not all directorates have plans, which directorates have disability employment action plans.
(3) Do the action plans have clear lines of accountability, monitoring and evaluation and how are they being reported on.
(4) Have disability inclusion champions and disability employee networks been initiated in each directorate; if so, which directorates have initiated these networks.
(5) What supports exist for people with mental illness or psychosocial disabilities in ACTPS workplaces.
(6) Has a practitioners’ network been established across all directorates and agencies, as per the Standing Committee on Health, Ageing and Community Services recommendation.
Mr Barr: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) The Workforce Capability and Governance Division (WCAG) Inclusion and Diversity Team in Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate (CMTEDD) continues its strong focus on expanding Whole of Government (Whog)
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