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Can a new social enterprise provide people with disabilities with long-term open employment?

By Dr Claire Hutchinson



Our client, an Australian Disability Enterprise (ADE) sought to establish a new social enterprise in the catering sector with the intention of providing young people with disability with a recognised qualification (Certificate III in Commercial Cookery) and ongoing employment on award wages. As part of creating reality from this vision, they sought to identify what the financial and social benefits of this new social enterprise would be for people with disabilities, as well as the wider benefits to families and society via a forecast social return on investment analysis. The project led by Professor Ian Goodwin-Smith and Dr Claire Hutchinson identified that, though there were significant social benefits to people with disabilities and their families, the societal benefits in terms of reduced benefits, and increased taxation, more than outweighed the significant investment being made by the parent company ADE and social investors in setting up the social enterprise.

 
 
 

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