How Canberra Employers Can Build Inclusive Trades Teams

About this episode

The episode discusses building inclusive trades teams in Canberra, focusing on workforce inclusion for people with disabilities and barriers to employment.

The construction skills gap keeps getting louder, yet a huge pool of capable people still sits on the sidelines. We sit down with Greg Lackey, Social Inclusion Manager at Programmed, to talk about what happens when you stop treating workforce inclusion like a feel-good extra and start building real pathways into the trades, especially for people with disability and others facing barriers to employment in Canberra. We dig into how Programmed’s work on the ACT public housing maintenance contra...

People in this episode

Guest: Greg Lackey

Topics covered

• workforce inclusion
• trades teams
• disability employment
• construction skills gap
• public housing maintenance

Keywords

• inclusive trades
• employment barriers
• construction skills gap
• Canberra
• Programmed

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Programmed

Places: Canberra, ACT

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