To date, 31 people have been withdrawn from JobPath for the purpose of engaging with Employability Services. These include both people who had engaged with Employability Services but had not been designated as such on the Department’s IT system at the time of selection for JobPath as well as people selected for JobPath and who were subsequently identified as having needs that were better served by Employability Services.
Only clients in receipt of a jobseeker’s payment are referred to JobPath. Most clients engaged with Employability Services are people with disabilities on long term payments such as disability allowance or invalidity pension and will not be referred to JobPath.
Where a person on JobPath requires additional supports that are not available with JobPath but are available with the EmployAbility Service, the JobPath provider will contact my Department so that the person may be withdrawn from JobPath and referred to Employability Services. Referrals from JobPath to Employability Services are dealt with on a case by case basis. There is no written protocol in place.
I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.