Summary
Measures that are improving
Employment and financial security
Around 25,000 valid claims were created for a 52-week employment outcome by a person with disability in 2023–24 compared to baseline (16,041 in 2020–21).
Personal and community support
More than 3 in 4 people (78%) NDIS participants aged 15–64 felt NDIS helped them have more choice and control after two years in the scheme in the fourth quarter of 2023–24 compared to baseline (75% in second quarter of 2021–22).
Education and learning
The proportion of children enrolled in a preschool program in the year before full-time schooling who had disability was similar to the proportion of children with disability aged 4–5 years in the community (7.6% in community and 7.1% in preschool).
Measures that show no change
Employment and financial security
There was no real change in the proportion of Australian Public Service employees with disability between baseline (December 2021) and December 2023 (5.0% and 5.2% respectively).
Safety, rights and justice
There was no real change in NDIS participants who felt able to advocate (stand up) for themselves between baseline (second quarter 2021–22) and the fourth quarter of 2023–24 (37% and 38% respectively).
Health and wellbeing
There was no real change in the proportion of adults with disability with high or very high levels of psychological distress (31% in 2018 and 2022).
Measures that show regress
Inclusive homes and communities
The proportion of NDIS participants who are happy with their current home was lower in the fourth quarter of 2023–24 (72.7%) compared to baseline (second quarter of 2021–22; 73.4%).
Inclusive homes and communities
The proportion of people with disability who can use all forms of public transport with no difficulty was lower in 2022 (63%) than in 2018 (66%).
Health and wellbeing
The proportion of people with disability who reported that they did not go to hospital when they needed to (2022; 14%) has increased since baseline (2018; 10%).
How is progress measured?
Where data are available for a measure for 2 or more points in time it is possible to report on whether change has occurred for that measure.
Data from the closest point in time to when the Strategy started are used to provide the initial view for reported measures. These data are referred to as the ‘baseline’.
As more data for each measure become available these are reported alongside the baseline data.
The status of a measure is decided by comparing the baseline and the latest report data. The status shows if there has been change, and the direction of the change.
- Improving: the measure is moving in the direction the Strategy wants
- No Change: the latest data are similar to the baseline
- Regress: the measure is not moving in the direction the Strategy wants.
For some measures, data are also included for periods prior to the start of the Strategy to provided additional context when interpreting the data.
Since launching the Strategy in 2021, there have been 43 measures with updated post-baseline data. Of these measures:
- 14 show improving
- 16 show no change
- 13 show regress.
Future plans
The next (4th) annual report with data updates will be released in early 2026. In the meantime, data updates will also be released quarterly on the Australia’s Disability Strategy Outcomes Framework webpages, with the next release scheduled for April 2025.
People with disability were clear that they did not want the Strategy reporting to be limited to data that were available at launch. For more details on the government approach to developing future measures, see the Strategy’s Data Improvement Plan.
Australia’s Disability Strategy 2021–2031
Outcomes Framework
Our third annual report
Easy Read summary (2.8 MB PDF)
How to use this document
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This Easy Read document is a summary of the 3rd Outcomes Framework annual report. |
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You can read the full report on our website. |
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What is in this report?
About the outcomes in Australia's Disability Strategy
How we learn about the outcomes
About the outcomes in Australia's Disability Strategy
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Australia’s Disability Strategy 2021–2031 is a plan to support people with disability in all areas of their life. In this report we call it the Strategy. |
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The Strategy includes outcomes. These outcomes are important results governments want to get for people with disability. |
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This document explains what governments have done to achieve the outcomes in the Strategy so far. |
How we learn about the outcomes
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We learn about the outcomes we want for people with disability by collecting data. |
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When we talk about data, we mean:
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We do this by measuring data about a certain outcome. |
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Then we measure data about that outcome again in the future. |
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When we compare both sets of data, we can find out if an outcome: |
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For example, we can find out if the number of people with disability who have a job: |
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We are always working to collect more data. That will help us understand how well we are reaching the outcomes in the Strategy. |
What we learned in 2024
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What has improved |
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We learned that more people with disability got support to find jobs. |
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We learned that more people felt the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) helped them have more choice and control after 2 years. |
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We learned that more children with disability were taking part in preschool before going to school. |
What has stayed the same |
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There was no change in how many people with disability were working for the Australian Government. |
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There was no change in how many people on the NDIS felt able to speak up for themselves. |
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There was no change in how many adults with disability were experiencing high stress. |
What needs to be better |
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There were fewer people on the NDIS who were happy with their home. |
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There were fewer people with disability who could easily use public transport. |
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More people with disability didn't go to hospital when they needed to. |
The Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers
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We received information from a survey called the Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers. |
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It collected information about: |
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The data we received was: |
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About 3 in 5 people with disability aged between 20 and 64 had completed year 12. |
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80% of young people with disability had a job. |
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9 in 10 people with disability said that they had not been treated differently because of their disability in the last 12 months. |
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63% of people with disability said they could easily use public transport. |
Back to 'What is in this report'
Females with disability
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We received data about females with disability. |
The data we received was: |
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90% of females with disability did not get treated different because of their disability in the last 12 months. |
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67% of females with disability said they had good health or better. 95% of females without disability said they had good health or better. |
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84% of females with disability had a job. In 2018, 79% of females with disability had a job. |
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We also looked at people on the NDIA who got the support they needed to do their job. |
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Between August and October 2024, 61% of females on the NDIS got the support they needed to do their job. |
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64% of males on the NDIS got the support they needed to do their job. |
What will happen next
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We will share our next report about what governments did to achieve the outcomes in the Strategy in 2026. |
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We will also share updates about how the outcomes are going every 3 months. |
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We will share the next update in April 2025. |
Word list
This list explains what the bold words in this document mean.
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DataWhen we talk about data, we mean:
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Outcomes Outcomes are important results governments want to get for people with disability. |
Contact us
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You can visit our website for more information. |
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You can send us an email. |
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You can write to us. GPO Box 570 Canberra ACT 2601 |
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