What is the NSW Community Services and Health ITAB?

We are an independent resource hub providing advocacy, advice, support and leadership. We support the Community Services and Health sectors by providing a voice to government on skills needs, emerging issues, challenges and trends.

What we do

We work with our stakeholders and industry to promote quality, accessible and industry relevant skill recognition and training for the sector. We ensure our stakeholders views are represented to State and Federal government departments including funding and policy agencies to champion the training and workforce needs of our sector. In doing this, we carry out several important roles:

• leadership - actively promoting quality, accessible and industry relevant training and best practice teaching and learning strategies and resources
• policy development - providing industry training advice to state and national training authorities
• advocacy - championing skill development, funding for training programs and development of resources; ensuring community services and health remain a significant agenda item in relevant forums
• quality assurance - working with state accreditation and registration agencies and training providers to ensure quality curricula, resources and delivery of training and consistency of assessment
• coordination - coordinating engagement activities including industry consultations, and projects to develop training and assessment resources
• information - keeping stakeholders up-to-date with training reform and skills funding through conference presentations, newsletter and journal articles, up-to-date website, workshops and forums
• research & development - conducting VET research and training needs analysis in areas of cutting-edge training reform and leading industry in developing innovative training products.

Our structure

We are governed by a tripartite Board of Directors with representatives from unions, peak bodies, community organisations and employer groups from the community services and health sector in NSW.

NSW Community Services and Health ITAB Board

• Ageing Australia
• Association of Children’s Welfare Agencies
• Centre for Volunteering
• Cerebral Palsy Alliance
• Department of Community and Justice
• Mental Health Co-ordinating Council
• Ministry of Health
• NSW Nurses and Midwives Association
• Wesley Mission