DPC governance
Corporate Governance Group
The Corporate Governance Group (CGG) meets fortnightly and is the department’s senior executive forum for strategic corporate governance decision making.
The CGG has been established to support the Director-General to effectively discharge the legislative accountabilities relevant to that role and the department.
Membership of the CGG during 2012-13 reporting period comprised:
- Director-General
- Deputy Directors-General
- Queensland Parliamentary Counsel
- Commission Chief Executive (CCE), Public Service Commission*
* the CCE is the accountable officer of the Public Service Commission and provides advice to DPC on matters relating to corporate governance.
The CGG:
- leads the delivery of the department’s Strategic Plan 2012-16 including the Vision to be the ‘The best public sector in Australia: efficient, modern and service-oriented’
- ensures adherence to accepted ethical standards and best practice
- promotes a culture of high performance, innovation and customer focus and monitors the implementation of recommendations to improve business processes and work practices
- monitors the implementation of corporate policies
- provides oversight of significant financial and procurement processes, including input into key strategies
- formally endorses agreed financial and budget submissions
- monitors performance and reporting requirements
- approves risk treatments for operational and strategic risks
- considers workforce capability and industrial relations developments impacting on the DPC workforce and advises on workforce strategies and programs
- ensures information resources and infrastructure support the department’s service delivery requirements
- monitors progress of key ICT projects and makes recommendations in relation to prioritisation of future ICT works and projects
- approves management responses to internal audit recommendations and reviews recommendations arising from Audit and Risk Management Committee meetings.
In the event of a crisis, the CGG may be called upon to activate the department’s service area business continuity plans and undertake crisis management activities as detailed in the Business Continuity Framework.
Audit and Risk Management Committee
The DPC Audit and Risk Management Committee (ARMC) has the responsibility of providing independent assurance and assistance to the Director-General in the areas of:
- Financial Statements
- Risk management
- Internal controls
- Performance management
- Internal Audit
- External Audit
- Compliance.
The DPC Audit and Risk Management Committee has observed the terms of its charter and has had due regard to Queensland Treasury’s Audit Committee Guidelines
Remuneration for members for this period totalled $2328.
The ARMC meets at least quarterly, and during the past year has overseen:
- the completion of a full review and refresh of all internal audit and risk management documents and processes in line with better practice including a new Risk Management Framework and Strategic Risk Register
- the commencement of a process of renewal of the ARMC in order to increase the proportion of external members
- the review of contract performance of the co-sourced internal audit provider.
The membership of the ARMC during the 2012-13 reporting period comprised:
- Graham Carpenter (Chair)
- Director-General, Deputy Directors-General, Queensland Parliamentary Counsel, Commission Chief Executive, Public Service Commission (members).