Objective
To ensure the public sector is appropriately focused on delivering essential services, the Victorian Government established an Independent Review to make recommendations on how to right-size program expenditure and return the Victorian Public Service towards its pre-pandemic share of employment, ensuring spending is aligned with the Government’s cost-of-living relief and key service priorities.
The Victorian Government will publish the report alongside its response in the coming months.
Leadership and governance
The Review operated independently of Government and was led by Helen Silver AO, who reported on and made recommendations to Government for consideration.
Scope
The Independent Review looked to:
- identify overlaps, inefficiencies, functions and programs that can be streamlined or eliminated, with a focus on entity consolidation
- provide recommendations to increase operational efficiency and to deliver process improvements across all VPS departments and programs
- provide recommendations on how to reduce the VPS back towards its pre-pandemic share of employment, including an examination of the appropriate levels of executives.
Frontline workers were not included in the scope of the Silver Review.
The Victorian Government will publish the final report alongside its response in the coming months.
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