1.4 Policy and Funding Plans
Divisional policy and funding plans present comprehensive information about the services, policies, budget, funds allocation and future direction of each division. The plans promote partnerships with the department, by providing organisations with detailed contextual information to support their service agreement.
The plans relate to a three-year budget period and are supported by annual updates reflecting the annual State Budget process and other changes that need to be identified to organisations.
The three-year plans provide:
- an overview of the Government's policy framework
- the department's objectives
- divisional strategic initiatives
- an overview of each division's budget
- service activities and performance measures
- a list of data collection requirements
- a list of service standards and guidelines.
Annual updates
The focus of the annual updates is on new, growth and redistributed funding initiatives announced in the State Budget, plus any changes to the three-year plan.
Annual updates will be published by 1 July in the second and third years of the service agreement cycle. No annual update will be published for the first year of the new three-year service agreement cycle. Instead, information about growth funding will be detailed in the three-year Policy and Funding Plan.