National Collaboration on Employment and Disability (NCED)

Pathways to decent work for young people with disability

We want to achieve genuine and lasting reform so that young people with disability can successfully transition from education into decent and meaningful employment.

The National Collaboration on Employment and Disability (NCED) was established by the Brotherhood of St Laurence (BSL) in 2023 in response to BSL’s vision to deliver a more inclusive and equitable society in Australia and give everyone the opportunity to thrive.

The NCED is an enabling and capability hub. This means we work with government, schools, employment services, disability services, advocates, researchers, employers, parents and carers, and young people with disability to remove barriers and enable young people with disability to get on with living, learning and working.

The NCED has evolved the work of the Ticket to Work Initiative into a national leadership role that supports collaboration and capacity building across disability and mainstream education, training and employment services so that young people with disability can successfully transition from education into decent, secure, and meaningful work.

To achieve this ambition we need to address the culture of low expectations for young people with disability and address the system-level issues that result in them falling through the cracks.

For more information see the NCED website .