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Annual reports

Our annual reports describe our activities and achievements by financial year:

For older annual reports, browse our corporate publications.

Corporate plans

Our corporate plan is our primary planning document for each 4-year period. We update it each year to set out our goals, and the strategies we will use to achieve them:

For older corporate plans, browse our corporate publications.

Compliance and reporting

Information publication scheme

Changes to the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act) that commenced in 2010-11 included the establishment of an Information Publication Scheme (IPS). Agencies are required to publish a plan showing how they intend to comply with the scheme. The scheme requires that agencies publish a range of information about what they do and the way it do it, as well as information dealt with or used in the course of their operations. The below policies and procedures describe how the Institute proposes to meet its obligations in respect of the Information Publication Scheme, to comply with Sections 8(1) and 8(2)(a) of the FOI Act.

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Child Safe Policy

We are committed to the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations outlined in the Commonwealth Government’s Child Safety Framework. We provide a child-safe environment, and our organisational structures, policies, procedures and processes promote child safety and wellbeing.

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Freedom of Information disclosure log

We are required by section 11C of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 to publish a disclosure log on its website. The disclosure log lists information, which has been released in response to an FOI access request.

View our disclosure log.

Procedures for determining breaches of the code of conduct

All Australian Public Service (APS) employees must follow the APS Code of Conduct. In accordance with the Act, the Director has set up procedures for deciding whether a current or former employee has breached the code and deciding sanctions.

Read the procedures [PDF 165 kB].

Risk and Audit Committee

The Accountable Authority of the Australian Institute of Family Studies, the Director, has established a Risk and Audit Committee in compliance with section 45 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 (PGPA Act) and PGPA Rule section 17 Audit Committees for Commonwealth Entities.

The responsibilities of the Audit and Risk Committee include reviewing the appropriateness of our:

  • financial reporting
  • performance reporting
  • system of risk oversight and management
  • system of internal control.

Read the Risk and Audit Committee Charter [PDF, 411.72 kB].

Statement of Expectations (SOE) and Statement of Intent (SOI)

SOE clarify the government's expectations about how the regulator will fulfil its statutory responsibilities. Regulators respond to a SOE with a SOI, that outlines how it will deliver on the Minister's expectations.

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Finance

Contracts

As a Non-Corporate Commonwealth Entities (NCCEs) we must publish a list of contracts and funding agreements to the value of $100,000 or more entered into during the previous 12 months, as well as those entered into at an earlier time that have not been fully performed at the end of the same period.

See our latest contracts.

Gifts/benefits register

See our register of gifts and benefits accepted by our staff in the course of their official duties. 

See our gifts and benefits register.

Legal services expenditure

See our statement of legal expenditures.

Privacy

We are bound by the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988. As a research body, we collect and handle a variety of personal information in performing its statutory research function and activities.

For more information see the complete AIFS Privacy Policy.

Making a public interest disclosure about AIFS

Current and former public officials can make a disclosure about suspected wrongdoing in the Institute.

The PID Act requires that the Director of AIFS (as a Principal Officer under the PID Act) establish procedures for facilitating and dealing with public interest disclosures relating to AIFS.

Learn more about making a public interest disclosure about AIFS, and read the agency procedures.

Raise a concern about research conduct

We are committed to researcher integrity and the ethical conduct of research projects and evaluations. However, if you do have any concerns or complaints about the ethical conduct of the research, or any aspect of AIFS' conduct you can raise a concern or complaint.

Reporting suspected fraud

By reporting suspected fraudulent or unethical behaviour you can help us ensure that public and government confidence in the integrity of the Institute's activities is maintained.

Learn more about reporting suspected fraud.

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