General Publications
Department of Labour Annual Report 2006
Vote ACC
Output class: Policy and monitoring
Description
This output class includes policy, purchase and monitoring advice, research and evaluation on the ACC scheme, and the performance of the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC).
This output class contributed to the following mediumterm goals:
- Responsive labour market regulation supports economic and social development
- Increased awareness and uptake of excellent workplace Practices
- Occupational injuries and disease are reduced
- Reduced barriers to labour force participation
- New Zealand workplaces effectively balance employers’ and employees’ needs and interests.
It contributed to these goals by:
- providing policy, purchase and monitoring advice that contributed to reducing injury in New Zealand workplaces, assisting those who are injured to return to work, and ensuring levies are fair
- providing policy advice and monitoring the implementation of policy for the ACC scheme, including vocational rehabilitation to assist people who are unable to return to their pre-injury occupation.
Activities
Activities carried out included:
- providing policy advice on the ACC scheme’s regulatory framework, ACC’s policies and practices, and interfaces with the health and welfare systems and workplace health and safety
- evaluating the impact of ACC’s activities in meeting the Government’s objectives for injury prevention, rehabilitation and compensation and wider social and economic goals
- providing purchase advice on and monitoring the performance of ACC to assist the Minister for ACC to achieve the Government’s objectives
- managing the ACC board appointment process on behalf of the Minister for ACC.
Performance information
Results measures
Performance standard
Performance to 30 June 2006
The Minister for ACC is satisfied with the quality of the Department’s policy advice. The Appendix to this part of the Annual Report sets out the quality standards for policy advice.
The Department sought feedback from the Minister on the quality of policy advice through six-monthly satisfaction surveys.
For both the six-month periods ending 31 December 2005 and 30 June 2006, the Minister gave an average rating of 3.4 (on a scale of 1 to 5) for the quality of policy advice provided by the Department.
The Minister for ACC is satisfied with the quality of the Department’s purchase advice and monitoring.
The Department sought feedback from the Minister on the quality of key departmental activity through six-monthly satisfaction surveys.
For the six months ending 31 December 2005, the Minister gave an average rating of 3.8 (on a scale of 1 to 5) for the quality of key activity provided by the Department. For the six months ending 30 June 2006, the Minister gave an average rating of 4.
The Minister for ACC is satisfied with the quality of the Department’s ministerial servicing.
The Department sought feedback from the Minister on the quality of ministerial servicing, through six-monthly satisfaction surveys. For the six months ending 31 December 2005, the Minister gave an average rating of 4 (on a scale of 1 to 5) for the quality of ministerial servicing provided by the Department. For the six months ending 30 June 2006, the Minister gave an average rating of 3.8.
Policy, purchase advice, monitoring and ministerial servicing will be delivered as agreed with the Minister for ACC and as detailed in the Vote ACC Output Plan for 2005/06.
Policy, purchase advice, monitoring and ministerial servicing were delivered as agreed with the Minister for ACC and as detailed in the Vote ACC Output Plan for 2005/06.
The Minister for ACC agreed to a revised policy work programme in May 2006, which had revised activities and milestones.
General Publications
Department of Labour Annual Report 2006
The decrease in appropriation of $0.317 million in the Supplementary Estimates was due to a fiscally neutral transfer reduction of the allocation of corporate costs.
The $0.825 million actual surplus in Revenue over Expenditure is due to staff vacancies and less expenditure on legal advice than expected. The ACC Legal workload is demand driven and was lighter than in previous years.