Performance reporting

Part two

Chapter 5 Performance against outcomes

FaHCSIA's ongoing commitment to performance reporting

The Department's commitment to reporting excellence has again been recognised, with the 2007–08 FaHCSIA Annual Report receiving a Silver Award in the Australasian Reporting Awards, an improvement on the Bronze Award received the previous year. FaHCSIA continues to focus on improving its performance reporting and key performance information.

This year, FaHCSIA aims to:

provide logically structured and more accessible reporting to our stakeholders and the public
show our performance against each of our outcomes and outputs
illustrate the impact of our work on the community.

Changes include:

an early outline of our purpose, outcomes, objectives and structure
a high-level statement from the Secretary
'At a glance' chapter summaries in Parts 2 and 3
structural improvement of Part 3.

FaHCSIA has continued to show the direct reporting relationship between the estimated results set out in our 2008–09 Portfolio Budget Statements with the actual results achieved, for greater transparency. We have also outlined future performance reporting intentions to indicate how our performance reporting is being shaped for the next 12 months and beyond. See 'Implementation of Operation Sunlight', page 70.

The Department has developed new performance information for each program for use from 1 July 2009, consistent with the requirements of Operation Sunlight. A stronger emphasis will be placed on reporting against program objectives rather than simply reporting the level of activity for a program. The Department also intends to report on trends in program performance where possible, dependent on available information. This reporting structure has been set up in the 2009–10 FaHCSIA Portfolio Budget Statements and will be reported against in the 2009–10 FaHCSIA Annual Report.

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Outcome and output structure

Figure 2.1 shows the structure of the Department's four outcomes and their contributing output groups for the 2008–09 reporting period.

Figure 2.1 Outcomes and outputs structure, 2008–09

Groups contributing to outcomes

Table 2.1 illustrates how key business areas (groups) contribute to the Department's outcomes.

Table 2.1 Groups contributing to FaHCSIA outcomes
Purpose Improving the lives of Australians by creating opportunities for economic and social participation by individuals, families and communities.
Group	Outcomes
Group	1	2	3	4
Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination Group	√	–	–	–
Women and Children Policy Group	√	√	√	√
Community Engagement and Development Group	√	√	–	√
Tax Transfer Taskforce	–	√	–	–
Disability and Carers Group	–	√	–	–
Families Group	√	–	√	–
Indigenous Leadership and Engagement Group	√	–	–	–
Social Housing Initiative	–	–	–	√
Housing Group	–	√	–	√
Social Policy	√	√	–	–
Indigenous Remote Service Delivery Group	√	–	–	–
Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations	√	–	–	–
Operational support groups The following operational support groups contribute to the Department's outcomes by providing support to the above policy and program areas.
Corporate Support Group
Legal and Compliance Group
Program Performance Group
Social Policy Group
Business and Financial Services Group
Information Management and Technology Group

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Transition to an outcome and program structure

Beginning in 2009–10, all General Government Sector entities will be reporting on a program basis. Table 2.2 shows the Department's outcome transition from the current set of four to the revised set of seven in 2009–10. The new structure will facilitate program-level reporting and enhance our ability to assess the achievement of outcomes.

Table 2.2 Outcome structure transition

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