Resources
Guides, tools and reference
Everything useful before you talk to us: guides to the rules with their sources, calculators and practice rounds that run in your browser, a glossary, a product tour and our roadmap.
Workstride is being built for accreditation by DEWR as a Third Party Employment System. It is not yet accredited.
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Guides to the rules
Sources checked 17/09/2026. Each guide names its sources and the date they were checked.
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From Disability Employment Services to Inclusive Employment Australia
How the program changed on 1 November 2025, and what stayed the same.
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IEA outcome periods explained
Anchor dates, 12, 26 and 52 weeks, and permissible breaks, with worked examples.
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IEA fees, in plain words
Outcome fees, Progress Fees, Ongoing Support fees and MID Payments, and how each is worked out.
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Attendance results in ESS Web
The close of business rule, the three Business Days, and what the Guidelines do not say.
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IEA minimum contacts, by service type
Minimum contact requirements by service type, explained clause by clause.
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What providers must check in a Third Party Employment System
DEWR's requirements, in DEWR's words, with a checklist you can print.
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Changing case management systems, without losing a beat
What actually moves when a provider changes systems, and in what order.
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The updated External Systems Assurance Framework
What changes from 1 October 2026, and what a Third Party Employment System must show.
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The approval AI needs in employment services
DEWR's Third-Party AI Assessment Framework, and what it asks providers to check.
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File notes and Documentary Evidence
What counts as Documentary Evidence, and how a stamped file note stands up later.
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IEA wage subsidies explained
Wage subsidy levels, the hours check, and how the two instalments work.
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Complaints, exits and transfers
Complaint deadlines, the Provider Exit notice period, and re-entry within 13 weeks.
Calculators and trackers
Data as at 17/09/2026. Nothing you enter is sent anywhere.
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IEA outcome period and fee calculator
Periods, hours and fees from an anchor date, with permissible breaks.
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Attendance result deadline calculator
Part B 6.6 in every state and territory, with the holidays that move it.
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IEA minimum contacts tracker
Contacts counted against each period's minimum, with the readings the rules leave open.
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Progress Fee planner
Registration windows and the employment basis, from wage histories you enter.
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Wage subsidy planner
Levels, the hours check and the two instalments, worked through for one employer.
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Brand contrast checker
Check a colour against white and ink text for WCAG 2.2 AA before you use it.
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Webhook signature checker
Verify a Workstride webhook signature against its payload and secret.
Practice rounds
Sample data, keyboard play, a no-timer option.
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Beat the clock
Order a morning's work, then compare it with My work's rules.
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Claim or not yet?
Invented cases to practise on. The Department decides what is payable.
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Know your Deed
Questions answered with the clause quoted.
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Reference and a tour
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Glossary
Inclusive Employment Australia terms, defined once and used the same way everywhere.
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Product tour
Three short, keyboard-operable tours through real screens on the Northfold sample data.
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Evaluating a Third Party Employment System
The TPES evaluation checklist
DEWR sets out what an Inclusive Employment Australia provider must check before it relies on any Third Party Employment System, in DEWR's own words. We turned it into a checklist you can print and take to your own review.
How we write and check these pages
Every guide names its sources, and a second person checks each figure, date and clause reference against the Deed, the Guidelines or a Department page before it goes on the site. Drafts may start with AI assistance, and a person checks every statement before publication.
See it on sample data, with the people building it.
A walkthrough covers the parts of Workstride your teams would use, the status of each one, and the approval steps your organisation takes.
Using Workstride with participant data first needs DEWR to accredit the Workstride system and us to hold a Third Party IT Vendor Deed, then your organisation's written approval from the Department (IEA Guidelines Part A 7.2.2).
Workstride is new, and we are inviting Inclusive Employment Australia providers to help shape it before launch. Help shape Workstride.
Tell us who is coming
Send the form with the roles you want to bring and the parts you want to see.
We reply to set a time
We suggest times that suit your team and confirm what the session will cover.
The walkthrough
Sample data only, with the status of every part said out loud. Nothing about your participants is asked or needed.