- Understanding the drivers for current program structures/approaches, including legislative, regulatory, economic and social drivers
- Understanding the current policy and political environment that makes up the strategic environment for your program
- Examining your data and understanding trends
- Looking to others across the world to identify emerging trends
- Listening to clients, staff and stakeholders to understand their needs and experiences.
Services
Review
You already invest in change: how can you improve your impact?
Reviews are an essential tool to understand how a current approach is working and what needs to improve. The most important thing for any review is that it be useful, in offering insights and pathways forward. We draw on our deep experience of public processes in multiple sectors to offer an independent perspective on your program and where your organisation can take it. Our aim—always—is to give you high impact actionable steps that will work in your environment.
Our approach might include
Examples of our review work include
- Review of national regulatory policy for Early Childhood Education and Care sector to identify areas requiring change (NSW Department of Education)
- Review of the Accredited Service Provider Scheme to improve regulatory robustness and enhance user experience (NSW Department of Energy)
- Review of Specialist Homelessness Programs to identify good practice and strengthen the program for the next 5 years (Mission Australia)
- Review of government grants programs to increase impact and reduce unnecessary red tape. Areas include seniors, carers, women, communities, industry.
- Review of a national program to engage disadvantaged young people to assess outcomes and provide investor confidence (Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme, Australia)
- Review of the process for Heritage listings to streamline process and improve consistency of outcome. (Heritage NSW)
- Statutory review of the NSW Disability Inclusion Act 2014 to test its continued relevance and appropriateness. (NSW Department of Communities and Justice)
