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Independent Review of the Victorian Public Service - Terms of Reference

The Victorian Government is focused on supporting Victorians with the cost of living and ensuring that families have access to the essential services they need in health, housing, education, transport and community safety.

Objective

To ensure the public sector is appropriately focused on delivering essential services, the Treasurer is establishing an Independent Review to make recommendations to Government 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.

Leadership and governance

The Review will operate independently of Government and will be led by Helen Silver AO, who will report on and make recommendations to Government for consideration.

Scope

The Independent Review will cover VPS departments and their entities. It will:

  • 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.

The review will cover recurrent and operational expenditure. Frontline workers will not be included in the scope of the Silver Review.

Deliverables

  • Interim recommendations for inclusion in the 2025-26 State Budget
  • Final Report and Recommendations by 30 June 2025

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