Corporate Governance
The Multicap Board is tasked with ensuring that sound governance practices are in place and, as part of an overarching governance review during 2018, they approved a new Governance Policy and a Multicap Board Charter; as well as reviewing and updating all governance documents.
Learn more about the Multicap Board here.
The Multicap Board set the strategic direction for the organisation by formulating and approving the Multicap Strategic Plan. The Strategic Plan is revisited each year at the Multicap Board Planning Day. The Strategic Plan is then passed to the CEO and Senior Executive Management team for implementation. The Board and CEO have a role in overseeing, monitoring and reporting on agreed actions.
Learn more about the Our Policies here.
The work of the Board is supported by committees and, as part of the governance review, these were reviewed and realigned during the year to better support the organisation at this time. The Board currently has four committees: Strategy, Finance and Audit, and Risk, Quality and Systems.
Annual General Meeting Presentations
Child and Young Person Safety and Wellbeing Statement
Multicap Limited and its subsidiary entities (‘Multicap’) is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Multicap has a zero tolerance for violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of children and young people.
To support this commitment, Multicap is focused on providing an environment where all children and young people are safe, feel safe, and their voices are heard about decisions that impact their lives.
Multicap also respects diversity in cultures and child rearing practices. Multicap promotes the cultural safety of children and young people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and other culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Multicap values the input of, and communicates regularly with, families and carers of children and young people involved in upholding their safety and wellbeing.
Multicap is focused on preventing the abuse of children and young people, through a proactive approach that includes:
- identifying risks to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people early and removing or reducing these risks,
- fostering a culture of openness that supports all persons to safely disclose risks of harm to children and young people,
- treating all allegations and safety concerns relating to children and young people, seriously,
- enacting our legal and moral obligations to contact authorities when we are worried about any child or young person’s safety,
- ensuring workers understand that they are required to act in accordance with Multicap’s Code of Conduct, and associated procedures and processes
- championing children’s and young people’s rights and modelling best practice in ensuring their safety and wellbeing,
- robust human resources and recruitment practices that minimise the risk of new and existing Directors, workers and volunteers from abusing children and young people,
- incident management processes that assertively respond to safety concerns regarding children and young people in required timeframes, and
- routinely training and educating our Directors, workers and volunteers on the risks and responsibilities regarding abuse of children and young people.