The Office of the Secretary is responsible for strategic oversight and corporate policy development. It provides secretariat services and executive support to the Secretary, other senior managers, and major Departmental Committees, including the Executive, Corporate Management Group and Audit and Risk Management Committee. The Office also has responsibility for coordinating the Department's relationship with the Treasurer, Executive Council, Cabinet Office and Parliament.
The Office of the Secretary includes the Secretary and two Deputy Secretaries who, with other members of the Executive, maintain strategic oversight of the Department's activities and provide high-level input to the development of Government policy.
We are responsible for coordinating the Department's Corporate Planning processes. This includes developing the Corporate Plan, reviewing performance against the Corporate Plan and reporting outcomes. The Office also coordinates the preparation and publication of the Department's Annual Report.
The Corporate Plan for 2007-08 was endorsed by the Treasurer in July 2007. In accordance with the requirements of the Financial Management Audit Act 1990 and the State Service Act 2000, the 2007-08 Annual Report was tabled in Parliament by 31 October 2007.
All Freedom of Information requests are managed by the Office. This involves us in liaising with branches to ensure the preparation of accurate and timely responses to all requests.
A new Tasmanian Government Style Guide and Logo Policy was initiated by the Department of Premier and Cabinet in December 2006. In implementing this policy within Treasury, we were responsible for updating existing templates and developing new ones to ensure that all internal and external communications were consistent with the policy.
The results of the Stakeholder Survey conducted in 2008 will be considered by the Corporate Management Group in September 2008. Branch heads will then develop and implement strategies to ensure that stakeholders' expectations of the Department's performance can be maintained or exceeded.
The Public Interest Disclosures Act 2002 came into effect on 1 January 2004. Its purpose is to encourage and facilitate disclosures about the improper conduct of public officers or public bodies.
We are committed to the aims and objectives of the Act. We also recognise the value of transparency and accountability in our administrative and management practices. We support the making of disclosures that reveal corrupt conduct, conduct involving a substantial mismanagement of public resources, or conduct involving a substantial risk to public health and safety or the environment.
We do not tolerate improper conduct by our staff, or the taking of reprisals against those who come forward to disclose such conduct. We will take all reasonable steps to protect people who make such disclosures from any detrimental action in reprisal for making the disclosure. We will also afford natural justice to any person who is the subject of a disclosure.
During 2007–08 we received no Public Interest Disclosure reports.
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