Monitoring and Reporting Plan
Our contribution to reform through monitoring and reporting.
One purpose of the Act is to reform the MHW system, and the Commission contributes to this by discharging the functions and exercising the powers set out in the Act. This includes ensuring government is accountable for the performance, quality and safety of the MHW system including implementing the recommendations made by the Royal Commission.
Background
A key component of our contribution to reform is through monitoring and reporting the performance, quality and safety of the Mental Health and Wellbeing System and progress in implementing the Royal Commission’s recommendations.
We consider implementation of the Royal Commission recommendations as laying the foundations for system transformation. Reporting on the performance, safety and quality of the Mental Health and Wellbeing system is one way of gauging the extent to which reform is being achieved.
By making this information widely available the Victorian community is well informed to hold government to account including through the electoral process.
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022 provides some concrete steps towards establishing system governance and oversight, such as prescribing some quality and safety measures on which the Commission must monitor and report.
Our Monitoring and Reporting Plan prioritises those metrics as a first phase of work.
Over time, the scope of the Commission’s monitoring work will increase substantially beyond these metrics, to fulfil the Royal Commission’s intent. For example, to support our contribution to improving the system through recommendations to government, in line with section 415 (w) of the Act.
Key Messages
- Monitoring is a process of systematically reviewing information to improve performance and support progress.
- Our monitoring and reporting functions require us to report on aspects of the mental health and wellbeing of Victorians and the systems that support them.
- Monitoring is about more than just numbers. To do our work effectively we will draw insights from all that we do.
- We will gather information from a wide variety of sources, prioritising the perspectives of people with lived and living experience of mental ill health and psychological distress, their families, carers and supporters.
- We will use a range of methods to report our findings from our monitoring and reporting activities.
You can download the accessible version of the Plan, which is compatible with assistive technologies, below:
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