Program · Outcome 1: Foster a productive and competitive labour market through policies and programs that assist job seekers into work, including secure work, and meet employer and industry needs
Program 1.1: Employment Services
The Employment Services system has the following key objectives: to help job seekers find and keep a job; to deliver high-quality and efficient employment services; and to support target groups to improve their work readiness and find employment.
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 36 reported
$2.2bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$193m (+9.6%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workforce Australia | administered | $1.5bn | $1.6bn | +$99m +6.7% | reported | Table 2.1.1 NCE, row 435 |
| Transition to Work | administered | $389m | $383m | −$6.0m −1.5% | reported | Table 2.1.1 NCE, row 437 |
| Parent Pathways | administered | $101m | $147m | +$46m +45.9% | reported | Table 2.1.1 NCE, row 440 |
| Supporting Workers Transition Through Energy System Changes | administered | $2.3m | $44m | +$41m +1785.2% | reported | Table 2.1.1 NCE, row 442 |
| Local Jobs Program | administered | $21m | $26m | +$4.9m +22.8% | reported | Table 2.1.1 NCE, row 438 |
| Reconnection, Employment and Learning Program | administered | $5.7m | $17m | +$11m +199.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1 NCE, row 441 |
| Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) | administered | $6.3m | $6.8m | +$428k +6.8% | reported | Table 2.1.1 NCE, row 436 |
| Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 - s77 | administered | $30k | $30k | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1 NCE, row 443 |
| Y Careers | administered | $4.2m | $0 | −$4.2m −100.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1 NCE, row 439 |