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Type of content:
Work program
Recent
Updated: Thursday 5 July 2018
Updated
Read an overview of the Social Services portfolio including details of key activities, expenses and staffing levels. The audit focus section outlines the influences on the ANAO’s allocation of financial audit resources and the selection of performance audit topics and other activities. Also included is a list of material and non-material entities within the portfolio with their corresponding risk profile and key risks. Any risks that are considered key audit matters (KAMs) by the ANAO are separately identified.
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Performance audit (potential)
Recent
Potential audit: 2018-19
Potential
The audit would assess the effectiveness of controls being implemented and/or developed by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) to ensure that decisions about the ‘reasonable and necessary’ supports to include in a participant’s plan are consistent with legislative and other requirements.
When fully implemented, it is estimated that the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) will cover approximately 460,000 Australians with disability, at a total cost of around $22 billion in 2020–21. Financial sustainability is a key objective of the NDIS, and the scope and volume of supports available through NDIS participant plans is a major cost driver of the scheme.
The audit would examine the controls being implemented by the NDIA to ensure that supports provided in participant plans are ‘reasonable and necessary supports’ as defined in the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013.
Entity:
National Disability Insurance Agency
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Type of content:
Performance audit (potential)
Recent
Potential audit: 2018-19
Potential
The audit would examine the Department of Social Services’ design and implementation of the Humanitarian Settlement Program (HSP).
The HSP replaced the Humanitarian Settlement Services and Complex Case Support programs on in October 2017. The program provides on-arrival and early settlement support for refugees and special humanitarian visa holders. The department has commissioned five service providers to deliver these services at a total contract cost of $523.4 million. In addition to the Australian Government’s arrangements to support settlement, there are also programs delivered by state and territory governments.
An audit would examine the Australian Government’s arrangements established to support settlement and how these arrangements interact with state and territory programs.
Entity:
Department of Social Services
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Type of content:
Performance audit (potential)
Recent
Potential audit: 2018-19
Potential
This audit would examine the effectiveness of the Department of Social Services’ (DSS’s) management of contracts for Disability Employment Services (DES).
The DES program is designed to assist jobseekers with disability to find or retain employment, and is delivered by a network of organisations around Australia. Approximately 186,000 people participate in the program, and the department has contracted approximately 119 DES providers across more than 2000 sites. DSS receives approximately $800 million in funding each year for the administration of the program. The department has established a DES Charter of Contract Management, which establishes the minimum standards of performance and conduct that providers can expect from DSS.
An audit would provide assurance that the department has appropriate arrangements in place to manage the decentralised delivery of employment services.
Entity:
Department of Social Services
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Type of content:
Performance audit in-progress
Due to table: November, 2018
Report preparation
The objective of this audit is to examine if the Departments of Social Services (DSS) and Human Services drive improvements in the Disability Support Pension (DSP) program using data and information from multiple sources, including agreed ANAO and parliamentary committee recommendations.
Entity:
Department of Human Services; Department of Social Services
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Type of content:
Performance audit in-progress
Due to table: June, 2019
Open for contribution
The objective of this audit is to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Social Services’ role in implementing the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children 2010–2022 (the National Plan).
Entity:
Department of Social Services
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Type of content:
Performance audit in-progress
Due to table: May, 2019
Open for contribution
The objective of this audit is to examine the effectiveness of the National Disability Insurance Agency’s (NDIA) fraud control program and its compliance with the Commonwealth Fraud Control Framework.
Entity:
National Disability Insurance Agency; Department of Social Services
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