Inclusive Local Jobs Strategy 2020-2025
As we begin to see the impacts of COVID-19 unfold, we recognise that an even greater number of people will experience unemployment and face economic hardship. Those who faced disadvantage prior to this pandemic, now face even greater challenges. With unemployment rates expected to continue to rise, the pandemic is challenging us to think and work in new ways.
This strategy is a first for us and pioneers a new place-based model of community and economic development that harnesses our role to create local job outcomes for local people experiencing barriers to employment.
Informed by community consultation and evidenced best practice, this strategy sets our agenda to:
- stimulate inclusive employment opportunities
- strengthen pathways to employment
- grow business and entrepreneurship
- advance inclusive employment practices across the local government sector and private sector.