10 September 2021 – Document updated to reflect the position title change for the Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor to Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost.

23/08/2021: Manager, Complaints Resolution replaced with Associate Director, Complaints Management and Resolution.

11 May 2021 – System Administrator Fix – updated placeholders for Board of Trustees from the Division-based record to the Committee-based record.

11 February 2021 – Updated the document to reflect the position title change for Director, Audit and Risk Assessment to Chief Audit and Risk Officer.

30 November 2020 – the document has been amended to reflect the renamed position title Executive Director, Human Resources to Chief People Officer.

The University is a public sector agency for the purposes of the Public Interest Disclosures Act 1994 (NSW) and, as such, is required to have in place a policy and procedures to receive and manage reports of alleged corruption, maladministration and the like. The name of these procedures align with the renaming of the associated policy. The new name will also make the policy and associated procedures easier to locate in the A-Z of the Policy DDS. The policy and procedures, which are aligned with Securing Success 2018-2020, are now in separate documents and are in plain English and the active voice. The policy and procedures recognise that reports of corruption or wrongdoing can be made by people other than public officials (in particular, students and members of the public). While those reports may not attract protection under the Act (this is because the Act only provides protection to reporters who are “public officials”, that is, officers and employees), the policy and procedures acknowledge that these reports will be managed in the same way and that, as far as possible, the University will afford similar protection to that available to public officials under the Act. Other changes reflected in the revised associated policy are: 1. the Director, Audit & Risk Assessment is now included as a Disclosures Officer; 2. roles and responsibilities in the policy and procedures are more clearly defined and assigned; 3. mandatory risk assessment is now required for all reports, to identify and assess risk of reprisals; 4. there is now a clear link to the misconduct investigation procedures in the University’s staff agreements when the alleged wrongdoer is a member of staff; 5. there is a clear link back to the Disclosures Coordinator at the conclusion of any matter previously referred for investigation under the University’s staff agreement; and 6. there is a clear link to other relevant procedures for matters that are not appropriate to investigate under this policy, but which otherwise require investigation.



Clauses Amended:Procedures: All