4 December 2024
Following from ACTA’s submission to this Inquiry 2024 September- ACTA’s Submission to Parliamentary Inquiry into Contract Management Frameworks – Australian Council of TESOL Associations, ACTA Vice-President, Helen Moore, gave evidence in a hearing on 4 December.
The Hansard transcript from the hearing will be available shortly on the Inquiry website. Those interested should also read the Hansard of the first hearing on the AMEP. Both transcripts are at: Public Hearings – Parliament of Australia
A statement Helen tabled can be accessed here and also on the Inquiry website.
In this statement, Helen stated that the initial contract written by the Commonwealth Department of Education and Training was defective. She also pointed out problems with competitive contracting, particularly problems in using KPIs to evaluate provider performance, the absence of any evaluation of competitive contracting itself, the stifling effect of competitive contracting, and the need for a more comprehensive examination of the AMEP than is possible in this Inquiry.
A report on this this hearing was in the Canberra Times was on 5 December 2024 under the banner of “Outsourced scheme like a ‘combination of all the incompetent bad things we hear of’”. The article can only be accessed by subscribers. However, the text is available through digital offerings of state libraries and databases [Look for Newsbank: Access Australia and International News.]
18 December 2024: Update
Further to the Inquiry hearing, Helen provided a written response to questions asked in the hearing by Mr Brian Mitchell, Member for Lyons (Tas), Labor. Click here to read it.
The Inquiry Committee has now sent further questions to Helen, which she is working on. They will be posted on this webpage after sending to the Committee.
Attachments included with Helen’s Response to Mr Mitchell:
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- ACIL Allen 2015 amep_evalution_report_-_for_public_release
- ACTA Proposal for an AMEP Advisory Body
- ACTA Standards-based Quality Assurance
- ACTA Towards a Payment Model to Incentivise Authentic Outcomes from the AMEP
- HOMEAFFAIRS_2165_RFT – Attachment A – Statement of Requirement
- HOMEAFFAIRS_2165_RFT – Attachment C – Pricing Schedule
- HOMEAFFAIRS_2166_RFT – Attachment A – Statement of Requirement
- HOMEAFFAIRS_2167_RFT – Attachment A – Statement of Requirement
- Life Course centre AMEP Impact Evaluation Project – Paper A