The Try, Test and Learn Fund Policy Hack

Please note: Expressions of interest to attend the Policy Hack are now closed.

The Department of Social Services (DSS) is holding a Policy Hack in Melbourne aimed at developing innovative proposals for the Government’s $96 million Try, Test and Learn Fund. Proposals need to assist people in the initial priority groups (young carers, young parents and young students), who are at risk of long-term welfare dependence, to find work.

DATE: Friday 10 February 2017
TIME: 9am–5pm
LOCATION: MCG Premiership Club Dining Room, Brunton Ave, Richmond VIC
COST: Nil

NOTE: Materials (paper, pens, post-its etc) plus morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and beverages will be provided. Please bring laptop or tablet if possible (WiFi available). Accommodation and travel costs are not included.

What is the Policy Hack?

The Policy Hack is an opportunity for you to work alongside others to develop innovative policy ideas that could be funded under the Try, Test and Learn Fund. Issues relating to each of the priority groups will be presented and discussed at the forum. Participants will work in small groups to workshop possible solutions, with the aid of champions and mentors, and ideas will be pitched to an expert judging panel. The Try, Test and Learn Fund Handbook provides detailed information about how the Fund works, including how ideas will be selected through the written submission process for further co-development and funding.

Ideas from the Hack may also progress to co-development and potentially be funded under the Try, Test and Learn Fund.

Legal aspects and intellectual property

The Policy Hack is an ideas sharing, generating or refining event aimed at creating innovative social policy in an informed, collaborative and consultative way.

Participation in the Hack is on the condition that participants sign a Participation Deed which provides the legal framework for the Hack and in particular describes the licensing arrangements for the Department’s use of the intellectual property generated in any ideas shared, generated or refined at and after the Hack.

It is a condition of admission that each participant execute, without amendment to its terms and conditions, the Participation Deed. Blank copies of the Deed will be available for completion at registration on the day of the Hack, if required.