Attracting and retaining a skilled health and social care workforce in the ACT remains crucial to delivering on the Government's agenda and community need. This includes locally trained workers, skilled migration pathways, and ensuring skilled health workers are retained and have long-term careers in the sector.
Payments for practicum (training) stints and migration reform in recent years are a good start, and student relief, but there's more to be done.
General Resolution
Expanding and sustaining a skilled health workforce
Conference calls on both the ACT and federal Labor Governments to continue to expand incentives and supports for health and social care workers in training, and for the ACT's planned and designated skilled migration levels, drawing on emerging data sets of shortages from Jobs and Skills Australia.
Further, the ACT Labor calls on the ACT Government to consider, in concert with state and territory counterparts and the Commonwealth, measures to promote long-term career progression in allied health and social care occupations and increase retention rates.