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Type of content:
Work program
Updated: Wednesday 19 July 2017
Updated
The Social Services portfolio is responsible for achieving the Australian Government’s social policy outcomes and delivering social security priorities through policy advice, program administration and research.
Contact:
Please direct enquiries relating to our annual audit work program through our contact page.
Type of content:
Performance audit (potential)
Potential audit: 2017-2018
Potential
This audit would examine the controls being implemented by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) to ensure that decisions about the ‘reasonable and necessary’ supports that are to be included in participants’ plans are consistent with legislative and other requirements.
When the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is fully implemented, it is estimated that the scheme will benefit approximately 460 000 Australians with a disability, at a total cost of around $22 billion in 2019–20. Financial sustainability is a key objective of the NDIS and the scope and volume of supports available through NDIS participants’ plans is a major cost driver of the scheme. The audit would examine the controls established by the NDIA to ensure that the supports provided, as outlined in participants’ care plans, are ‘reasonable and necessary’, as defined in the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013.
This potential audit forms part of a five-year performance audit strategy for the NDIS.
Entity:
National Disability Insurance Agency
Contact:
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Type of content:
Performance audit (potential)
Potential audit: 2017-2018
Potential
This audit would examine the Department of Human Services’ management and delivery of programs, services and payments on behalf of other Australian Government entities, as well as the department’s performance against its respective obligations and service standards.
Human Services provides a range of programs, services and payments for, and on behalf of, a number of Australian Government entities, such as income support payments for the Department of Social Services, and aged care payments and the maintenance of various health-related registers for the Department of Health. Arrangements for these services and payments are outlined in various memorandums of understanding and business partnership agreements. In the 2017–18 Budget, Human Services estimated that it would process around $175 billion in payments on behalf of other government entities.
The proposed audit would provide assurance that business agreements support Human Services in meeting the expectations of entities on behalf of whom it delivers payments; and that roles, responsibilities and performance reporting arrangements are clearly defined.
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Type of content:
Performance audit (potential)
Potential audit: 2017-2018
Potential
This audit would examine the coordination and targeting of Australian Government funding for priority areas under the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children. The audit would focus on a selection of the five national priority areas developed under the plan, drawing on results from reviews conducted to measure achievements from the first and second action plans.
In 2011, the Australian Government launched a 12-year strategy designed to reduce violence against women and their children—the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children. The priority areas under the plan are set out in three-yearly action plans. The first action plan (2010–13) focused on building an evidence base and establishing frameworks to achieve attitudinal and behavioural change. The second action plan (2013–16) focused on consolidating the evidence base and strengthening existing strategies.
An evaluation plan sets out activities to be completed throughout the duration of the national plan. At the Australian Government level, these activities include reviews of three-yearly action plans, annual progress reporting, data analysis and evaluations of key national initiatives.
This audit may be conducted as part of a concurrent audit strategy with other audit offices.
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Type of content:
Performance audit in-progress
Due to table: June, 2018
Report preparation
The objective of the audit is to assess the Department of Social Services’ (Social Services) implementation and evaluation of the Cashless Debit Card trial.
Entity:
Department of Social Services
Contact:
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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
Contact:
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Type of content:
Performance audit in-progress
Recent
Due to table: November, 2018
Open for contribution
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
Contact:
Please direct enquiries through our contact page.