This Statement of Strategy sets out our key objectives to 2025. The Statement has been developed in consultation with our external stakeholders and with staff from each of the individual Offices and Business Units.
View our strategy 2022 to 2025Our corporate governance framework document sets out how we function. It can be viewed here as a PDF document.
Corporate Governance Framework (PDF)The Protected Disclosures Act 2014 provides safeguards for workers who raise legitimate concerns regarding actual or potential wrongdoing in the workplace. The Commission has developed procedures in line with the 2014 Act, which have been approved by the Management Team. The procedures detail:
The Commission recognises the importance of ensuring that staff feel supported in the workplace. It is committed to ensuring that its culture and working environment encourages and facilitates staff in ‘speaking up’ on any issue that impinges on the Commission’s ability to carry out its responsibilities.
There are a number of ways in which you can make a disclosure under the Act – for example, to your employer or, sometimes, to an external “prescribed” person when you reasonably believe that the relevant wrongdoing fall the prescribe person’s remit. You must also reasonably believe that the information contained in the disclosure and any allegation contained in it is “substantially true”. This is a higher threshold than for an internal disclosure. The Director of the Commission for Public Service Appointments is a prescribed person under the Act (Statutory Instrument 339 of 2014, as amended by Statutory Instrument 448 of 2015).
You can make disclosures to the Director of the Commission for Public Service Appointments regarding all matters relating to the setting of standards for recruitment and selection for public service appointments including the monitoring and auditing of public sector recruitment and selection activities.
Section 22 of the 2014 Act requires every public body to prepare and publish an annual report in relation to protected disclosures received under the provisions of that Act. The table below indicates the position:
|
Year |
Protected Disclosures Received |
|
2016 |
Nil |
|
2017 |
Nil |
|
2018 |
Nil |
|
2019 |
Nil |
| 2020 | Nil |
| 2021 | One disclosure was received during the year, which fell outside of CPSA’s remit and was therefore transferred to the appropriate prescribed person |
| 2022 | Nil |