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Statistics, public accountability and the Federation

Statistics, public accountability and the Federation . NatStats 2010 Conference Thursday 16 September 2010 Mr Paul McClintock AO Chairman, COAG Reform Council www.coagreformcouncil.gov.au. Intergovernmental Agreement on Federal Financial Relations. Key reforms: Rationalisation of payments

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Statistics, public accountability and the Federation

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  1. Statistics, public accountability and the Federation NatStats 2010 Conference Thursday 16 September 2010 Mr Paul McClintock AO Chairman, COAG Reform Council www.coagreformcouncil.gov.au

  2. Intergovernmental Agreement on Federal Financial Relations Key reforms: • Rationalisation of payments • Development of National Agreements • National Partnership payments and agreements • Strengthened public accountability

  3. COAG Reform Council Mission: Toassist COAG to drive its reform agenda by strengthening public accountability of the performance of governments through independent and evidence-based monitoring, assessment and reporting

  4. Leadership federalism Professor Greg Craven Two important elements: • historical shift of the Commonwealth’s involvement in policy areas over which technically it has no power 2. maintains the advantage of federal systems that allow decisions to be made by governments closest to the people affected by them

  5. Public accountability Mark Bovens, The Oxford Handbook of Public Management: ‘Public accountability is the hallmark of modern democratic governance. Democracy remains a paper procedure if those in power cannot be held accountable in public for their acts and omissions, for their decisions, their policies, and their expenditures.’

  6. COAG Reform Council reports Baseline performance reports on: • Healthcare • Education • Skills and workforce development • Disability services • Affordable housing • Indigenous reform

  7. Improving the performance reporting framework The Intergovernmental Agreement on Federal Financial Relations states: ‘As the success of the new framework for federal financial relations depends crucially on the development of robust performance indicators and benchmarks, the Parties will continually improve performance data…’

  8. Improving the performance reporting framework The COAG Reform Council is urging significant improvements in five areas: • Strong conceptual frameworks • The availability of adequate data • The timeliness of data • The ability to monitor and report change over time • The use of administrative data

  9. Summary • Public accountability for the performance of governments is a hallmark of a robust federation • This requires access to data on performance—from key administrative and survey data sets—that are meaningful, timely, accurate, and comparable across jurisdictions • The shift to a focus on outcomes calls for an equally bold reassessment of the priorities for data development and collection

  10. www.coagreformcouncil.gov.au

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