Profiling the NSW public sector - functions, risks and corruption resistance strategies
- Report length
- 119 pages
Summary
The report's own summary: E X E C U T I V E S U M M A RY, pages 10 to 14
Generated summary: written by an AI model from the report text and checked against the cited pages.
The Independent Commission Against Corruption surveyed NSW public sector organisations and staff to identify perceived corruption risks and existing prevention practices.
It received completed surveys from 265 organisations and 357 staff across 20 organisations; the research explored potential opportunities for corruption rather than measuring existing corruption.
ICAC identified misuse of confidential information, misuse of public assets and corrupt tendering as the main perceived risks confronting organisations.
ICAC made 29 recommendations covering risk management, conduct codes, gifts, information security, recruitment, procurement, audit, protected disclosures and internal investigations.
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In the body's own words
- Conclusion
However, public sector organisations must remain vigilant in monitoring and reviewing their risk management practices.
- Recommendation
The ICAC encourages all organisations to adopt the seven-step risk management process as a general approach to identifying and treating risks.
Findings and recommendations
Allegations are not findings. A commission's finding or opinion of corrupt conduct or misconduct is not a finding that a person is guilty of a criminal offence, and the commissions say so in their reports.
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Notes on this record
- Corruption prevention and research reports make no findings about individuals; any recommendations are not extracted unless set out as numbered recommendations that could be read confidently.
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