A New Workforce Planning Cycle
The Aged Care Deep Dive is the second sector deep dive in HumanAbility's 3 year rolling workforce planning cycle.
This cycle incorporates sector insights, workforce data and system level analysis. It is designed to produce a deeper level of analysis focused on the key areas of each sector. The 3 year cycle includes:
- 6 sector deep dives to highlight workforce experience and sector insights
- annual initiative roadmaps, setting out activity underway across the care and support sectors.
The Aged Care Deep Dive follows the Disability Deep Dive and will be released in November 2026.
Aged Care Deep Dive
Aged care is going through a wave of reform and most of it lands on the workforce. A new Aged Care Act, stronger quality standards, care minutes, the registered nurse requirement and the staged wage outcomes from the Work Value Case all change what the job actually involves.
The Aged Care Deep Dive looks at whether the workforce can deliver what these reforms expect and asks where the gaps are biggest and where the pressure is hardest to absorb.
We will combine what workers, providers, consumers and unions tell us with workforce data and take a close look at the system settings behind it. The aim is a straight read of what is working, what isn't and what should come next.
Project Timeline
Consultations will take place across the country from June to August 2026 with publication scheduled for November 2026.
- w/c 22 June - Western Australia
- w/c 29 June - South Australia
- w/c 6 July - Northern Territory
- w/c 13 July - Queensland
- w/c 20 July - Victoria
- w/c 27 July - New South Wales
- w/c 3 August - Australian Capital Territory
- w/c 10 August - Tasmania
Contact Details
To contact the project team, please email research@humanability.com.au.
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