Under the Skilling Australia for the Future initiative, the Australian Government has funded the Productivity Places Program (PPP) which will deliver 711,000 qualification commencements over 5 years. These qualifications are being delivered in an industry-driven system, ensuring that training is more responsive to the needs of businesses and participants.
Of the qualifications, 392,000 will be allocated to existing workers wanting to gain or upgrade their skills, and 319,000 will be allocated to job seekers, including 25,000 under the Structural Adjustment Places (SAP) element of the program.
PPP training places are being delivered to Australians in the following ways:
The Mainstream PPP
The Australian Government delivered mainstream PPP job seeker training places from April 2008 to
30 June 2009.
The state and territory governments have progressively assumed delivery of mainstream job seeker and existing worker PPP training places through 2009. This is in accordance with the Council of Australian Governments' negotiated National Partnership (NP) Agreement for PPP, which was signed by seven state and territory governments. The Victorian Government has signed a separate agreement.
The delivery of job seeker and existing worker training places by the state and territory governments from
1 July 2009 will incorporate the training commitments identified by the Compact with Young Australians and the Compact with Retrenched Workers.
Sub-Elements of the PPP being Administered by the Australian Government
From 1 July 2009, the Australian Government's role in the PPP is to provide direct funding for two
sub-elements of the PPP. These are:
- 15,000 SAP to support groups of recently retrenched workers. Special conditions apply, see Structural Adjustment Places; and
- 18,900 New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS) training places over 3 years (6300 NEIS places per year). Special conditions apply, see NEIS-PPP Places.
Use the below links to search for Registered Training Organisations and qualifications being delivered under the SAP and NEIS sub-elements of the PPP. For SAP search by Qualification title and/or Certificate level only. (The specific drop down menus for SAP are not functional).
PPP Program Information Management System for Registered Training Organisations only:
Enterprise Based Productivity Places Program (EBPPP)
The Minister has announced that up to $25 million will be provided to fund training for existing workers via Industry Skills Councils. For more information go to the News webpage.