School Leaver Employment Supports (SLES)

What is School Leaver Employment Support (SLES)?

SLES is a funded support for NDIS eligible Year 12 school leavers, who are ineligible, or unlikely to be eligible, for Disability Employment Services (DES). SLES builds on and strengthens the skills that students have gained at school. SLES is not the only post school support the NDIS funds and it is not for everyone. NDIS participants may be eligible to receive SLES in addition to other supports that are deemed reasonable and necessary.

The NDIS funds a range of post-school supports to assist young people with disability to move into employment or other options.

NDIS supports may include assistance across a range of life areas such as:

• social and community participation
• building life skills
• mobility or communication technology
• further study or finding and maintaining a job.

Some NDIS participants can access Disability Employment Services to receive assistance to find work.

School leaver and employment supports (SLES) is an NDIS funded support for participants who are school leavers and who are ineligible, or unlikely to be eligible, for Disability Employment Services. SLES builds on and strengthens the skills that students have gained at school.

SLES is not the only post-school support the NDIS funds and it is not for everyone.

NDIS participants may be eligible to receive SLES in addition to other supports that are deemed reasonable and necessary.

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