Figure B1
VAGO assessment of RDV's implementation of our 2015 audit recommendations
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Recommendation |
Assessment |
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That DJPR increases awareness of the initiatives to ensure the best possible projects are funded |
Fully implemented |
We have consulted with DJPR, and we considered their views when reaching our audit conclusions. As required by section 16(3) of the Audit Act 1994, we gave a draft copy of this report to those agencies and asked for their submissions and comments. We also provided a copy of the report to DPC.
Responsibility for the accuracy, fairness and balance of those comments rests solely with the agency head.
Responses were received as follows:
RESPONSE provided by the Acting Secretary, DJPR
In this part, we assess whether RDV can demonstrate the outcomes the grants it has administered have achieved in improving outcomes in regional Victoria.
We also highlight the way RDV could use available social and economic data to target fund expenditure to drive better outcomes for regional Victorians.
RDV's current regional grant fund is RJIF, which commenced in 2015 and will conclude in June 2019. We audited two previous funds and in 2015 made nine recommendations to RDV about the implementation of RJIF.
In this part we assess whether RDV's design of RJIF, decision-making, record‑keeping and public information have been effective, transparent and accountable.
Regional Victoria is home to 24 per cent of the state's population. In 2017–18 it produced 19 per cent of the state's GRP despite challenges such as low population and job growth.
Since 2005–06, regional Victoria has experienced negative GRP growth in six years and growth of less than 1 per cent in another four. The gap in GRP per person between regional Victoria and metropolitan Melbourne is increasing, as shown in Figure 1A.
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Gross Regional Product—the value of goods and services produced in an area. |
| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| CBA | cost-benefit analysis |
| DJPR | Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions |
| DPC | Department of Premier and Cabinet |
| DTF | Department of Treasury and Finance |
| EOI | expression of interest |
| GEMS | Global Engagement Management System |
Ordered to be published
VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT PRINTER September 2018
PP No 439, Session 2014–18
Dear Presiding Officers
Melbourne's policy for its public safety CCTV system guides the system's use, including disclosure of footage and access:
Figure C1
Good CCTV signage at council sites
CCTV signage inside a council building.