Page 3919 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 1 December 2021
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Consultation also tells us that it will be important for the insourcing framework to consider insourcing newly identified opportunities that might have otherwise been outsourced, as well as considering whether services or works should be insourced at the end of an initial term of a contract when an option to renew the contract has been considered or is being considered.
We have learnt many things during the COVID pandemic, including the risk to both workers and the economy that insecure work brings. We also better understand that women, young people and people from a migrant background are more likely to find themselves in insecure work. Through the insourcing framework, we are committed to ensuring government resources are used to support secure employment. This will mean better outcomes for people across the territory. Emerging from the COVID pandemic, we will be challenged to think in new ways and work in new ways.
The government recognises the value of our public service. They have worked tirelessly these past few months through the COVID pandemic, often in challenging circumstances. Despite these circumstances, they have produced some extraordinary workâlike this bill.
We know that our public service cannot always do everything, but they can be, and must be, the foremost advisers to government. They are the custodians of the public good. We trust their advice and we are grateful for it. Protecting the public service and advancing the public good is central to the work of all unions, and it is led by the public sector through the CPSU. I look forward to working with them and other unions to develop the framework provided in this bill, and recognise their members in the gallery today.
We will be seeking to maximise our current and future workforce, catering for future change with broader skill sets. Workforce capability, flexibility and mobility are key considerations when building the ACT public service of the future, and the insourcing framework will capture these considerations. Secure employment and the framework will support the capability of the service into the future.
I will now provide an overview of the clauses outlined in the bill. The first clause sets out the name of the bill. The second outlines the commencement of the act. The act will commence on a day fixed by written notice. If the act has not commenced within six months of passing the Assembly, the act will automatically commence on the first day after that period.
The third clause provides that the bill will amend the Financial Management Act 1996, and the fourth clause inserts a new part 9A into the Financial Management Act 1996. New section 126 defines public sector entities. New section 127 outlines that responsible public sector chief executive officers are to ensure compliance with part 9A, and outlines who the chief executive officers are in the public sector.
New section 128 outlines that the Chief Minister must determine the insourcing framework. The insourcing framework is to evaluate whether services or works required by a public sector entity should be provided by the public sector or by an
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