Focus Area 3: Staged actions - from 2026 to 2029

Commitment 1: Improve knowledge, understanding and awareness of autism across the workforce.

Target

Ensure public sector employees undertake Autism Awareness and Understanding training.

Action

Refresh digital training project in autism awareness and understanding to incorporate current best practice knowledge to target understanding and inclusion across public sector employment.

Lead: Office for Autism (Department of the Premier and Cabinet)

Target

Increase awareness of autism across the public sector workforce and the strengths and benefits of employing Autistic people.

Action

Promote awareness of hidden disability, including autism, for public sector employees.

Lead: Office for Autism (Department of the Premier and Cabinet)

Commitment 2: Create an accessible, inclusive and welcoming public sector where Autistic people can thrive.

Target

Embed autism inclusion into workplace policies and practices.

Action

Review and update the Guideline of the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment: Recruitment to ensure South Australian Public Sector recruitment processes are inclusive of Autistic employees and free from bias.

Lead: Office of the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment

Target

Promote autism inclusion across the public sector.

Action

Improve public awareness of the benefits of employing Autistic people through the delivery of the multimedia Autism Works campaign across South Australia.

Lead: Office for Autism (Department of the Premier and Cabinet)

Commitment 4: Consider alternative employment initiatives when transitioning from education to employment.

Target

Collaborate with service providers which support Autistic people transitioning to employment.

Action

In collaboration with Office of the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment, develop and promote information for hiring managers about how applicants who are registered with a disability employment service provider can apply for vacancies through the iWorkforSA website at iworkfor.sa.gov.au.

Lead: Office for Autism (Department of the Premier and Cabinet) and Office of the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment