Page 21 - Week 01 - Tuesday, 12 February 2019
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I move:
That the Assembly take note of the paper.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
ACT Ambulance Service
Ministerial statement
MR GENTLEMAN (Brindabella—Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Minister for Planning and Land Management, Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister assisting the Chief Minister on Advanced Technology and Space Industries) (10.38): Over the past three years our ACT Ambulance Service—ACTAS—has been undergoing change. This has been guided by the blueprint for change. The blueprint for change arose from a number of reviews into our ambulance service and was directed towards improving a number of things, including culture.
I want to thank all staff within ACTAS for their perseverance and their approach to the blueprint for change. The last few years have not been easy, but by working together, working as a team across ACTAS, the staff have helped make changes for the better.
I would like to provide the Assembly with a report on the ACT Ambulance Service blueprint for change project. On 18 March 2015, you, Madam Speaker, as former Minister for Police and Emergency Services, released Enhancing Professionalism: a blueprint for change, and I want to thank you for the work you did. The blueprint for change arose from a number of reviews into ACTAS, including a review of the prevalent culture, and it made eight recommendations.
The blueprint for change has provided the framework for ACTAS and the ACT Emergency Services Agency—ESA—as a whole to enhance professionalism by improving cultural standards and addressing workplace concerns around trust, conflict resolution and leadership.
I am very happy to report that all eight of the original blueprint for change recommendations are substantially addressed or have been completed. In light of this, the blueprint for change oversight committee has recognised that a transition of governance and oversight to ACTAS “business as usual” is now required. I can update the Assembly on each of the eight recommendations as follows.
Recommendation 1, adoption of an implementation charter, has been achieved. The implementation charter was endorsed at the October 2015 meeting of the oversight committee and updated in 2016. It was the action plan for the blueprint for change and was developed after extensive stakeholder consultation. In March 2016 ACTAS and the Transport Workers Union also agreed to sign a joint accord, committing to work together to deliver the recommendations arising from the blueprint.
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