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The COVID-19 global pandemic, declared by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in March 2020, 1 has threatened the health and wellbeing of millions of people around the world. In every state of emergency, there must be appropriate and effective communication strategies in place
to get essential information to all members of the community. Addressing world leaders, the WHO Director-General pointed out in his media briefing from March 2020: ‘Communicate with your people about the risks and how they can protect themselves – this is everybody’s
business.’

The Settlement Council of Australia (SCoA) congratulates the Department on the New Employment Services Model initiative and welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Discussion Paper on the proposed licensing system.

MYAN has prepared this discussion paper to highlight the benefits of a youth focussed approach to English language classes, and provide guidance on how this can be achieved in order to strengthen the responsiveness of AMEP to the youth cohort. While this paper has been prepared in the context of a number of reports assessing the effectiveness of the AMEP, none has given any focused attention to the youth cohort.

The Centre for Policy Development recently published a new report, Putting Language In Place: Improving the Adult Migrant English Program. View the report here.