This report follows up on three performance audits we completed in 2014–15. Performance audits focus on the efficiency, economy and effectiveness of public sector entities, and include recommendations to improve the management and delivery of public services.
Ordered to be published
VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT PRINTER June 2017
PP No 299, Session 2014–17
Figure F1 details 2014 asset management strategy's key performance measures for public housing.
Figure F1
Asset management strategy key performance measures for public housing
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Key performance measures (KPM) |
Description |
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KPM 1 |
Service demand: Improve alignment between supply and demand | |
This Appendix examines how the Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS) annual capital plans for social housing have been implemented by comparing:
Figure D1 details the expected features of asset life cycle plans based on the Cooperative Research Centre for Infrastructure and Engineering Asset Management's Integrated Strategic Asset Management for Experts.
Figure D1
Features of asset life cycle plans
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Plan |
Description | |
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Acquisition plan | ||
Figure C1 shows the public housing priorities set in the Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS) 2014 asset management strategy.
Figure C1
2014 asset management strategy priorities
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Driver |
Priority |
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Demand |
Figure B1 lists the social housing initiatives included in Homes for Victorians.
Figure B1
Homes for Victorians—social housing
initiatives
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Initiative |
Description | |
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Direction 2—Increasing the supply of housing through faster planning | ||
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2.4 | ||
We have consulted with the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Premier and Cabinet and the Department of Treasury and Finance, 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, or relevant extracts, to those agencies and asked for their submissions and comments.
Responsibility for the accuracy, fairness and balance of those comments rests solely with the agency head.
Responses were received as follows:
This Part of the report assesses the Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS) implementation of asset management recommendations from our 2012 performance audit Access to Public Housing.
Figure 4A shows the four recommendations we made about public housing asset management.
Figure 4A
Summary of progress against 2012 audit recommendations relating to public housing asset management
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The [former] Department of Human Services should: |