Review of methodology to determine Regional Employment Targets (RETs)

The RET is the number of 26 week employment outcomes a CDP provider is expected to achieve in each CDP region. The former Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PMC) administered CDP prior to July 2019. PMC engaged SGS Economics and Planning (SGS) in 2017 and again in 2018 to develop a methodology to determine fair and consistent RETs across the program. The result of this work was communicated to CDP providers and has informed the methodology used by NIAA to calculate RETs.