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April 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The disability and aged care sector in NSW needs to attract 10,000 new workers within five years or face huge staff shortages.
The ageing population and a rise in people accessing disability services has made the recruitment drive necessary.
National Disability Services (NDS), the peak body for the disability sector, is using TV ads and a jobs website to target young people and those looking for a more rewarding career.
NDS’s project manager Mike Field said an additional 10,000 jobs by 2017 makes disability services one of the fastest-growing job sectors in the country.
“Currently in NSW there’s around 300,000 people accessing disability and aged care services,” Mr Field told AAP.
“In five years’ time that’s going to rise to 380,000.
“We are aiming at 2,000 (new recruits) each year.”
Nearly 30 per cent of the NSW population is aged over 65, while about 1.4 million people in the state are living with a disability.
NDS launched its fourth TV ad on Tuesday, aiming to recruit non-frontline workers including drivers, admin workers and speech pathologists.
Carecareers.com.au, which was launched two years ago, has also been successful in the recruitment process.
“We concentrate a lot of efforts online. That’s where people are searching,” Mr Field said.
“(If) they’re putting in things like ‘changing careers’, ‘rewarding career’ (into search engines) … they’ll find our ads.”
NSW disability services minister Andrew Constance said disability services and jobs were needed especially in western Sydney.
“If there’s any constraints on the overall system it’s the lack of available workers,” Mr Constance said.
“We do have a real challenge for the entire community to attract people into the sector.”
He said the NSW government has also developed a “radical” set of reforms for disability services.
In a discussion paper released on Tuesday, the state government outlines a new program of individualised funding that allows people with a disability or their carers to pick and choose their services and supports.
Mr Constance said the government had allocated more than $2 billion to disabled care but this would cover only about half the state’s funding needs, with the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) needed to realise the other half.
However, this has been described as an “extreme reform” by the Public Service Association (PSA).
PSA general secretary John Cahill said attempts by the NSW government to describe the reform as a step towards the NDIS were grossly misleading.
“This has nothing to do with the NDIS,” Mr Cahill said.
“It is important for people with disabilities and their families to have a greater say over their care and support but this is a different issue. It’s an extreme reform that will see private operators compete against NGOs and the government sector.”
The scheme, proposed by the Productivity Commission, will cover the care, accommodation and therapy costs of people born with disabilities or who were affected later in life.
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