TY - JOUR
T1 - Benchmarking government
T2 - Report on Government Services (RoGS) – 25 years on
AU - McGuire, Linda
AU - Prior Jonson, Elizabeth
AU - Perryman, Steve
AU - McKeown, Tui
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Institute of Public Administration Australia
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - Robust indicators and measures for outputs and outcomes against agreed objectives are the holy grail of performance reporting. Transparent performance reporting can be a means to improving accountability to taxpayers for public funds and responsiveness to users. The Report on Government Services (RoGS) for the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) is widely seen as ‘an exemplar of benchmarking in a federal system.’ Twenty-five years on, RoGS has been institutionalised and the approach to performance reporting was central to the COAG reform agenda. Annual reports compare the equity, effectiveness, and efficiency of outputs and outcomes across governments in six key areas – childcare, education and training; health; justice; emergency management; community services; and housing and homelessness. Performance indicators and measures have increased the accountability of state and territory governments for their management of public funds. The significance of RoGS is the unprecedented scale and scope of performance indicators and its longevity. The services benchmarked in the 25th report in 2020 accounted for $247 billion, representing 70% of government recurrent expenditure and 13% of GDP.
AB - Robust indicators and measures for outputs and outcomes against agreed objectives are the holy grail of performance reporting. Transparent performance reporting can be a means to improving accountability to taxpayers for public funds and responsiveness to users. The Report on Government Services (RoGS) for the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) is widely seen as ‘an exemplar of benchmarking in a federal system.’ Twenty-five years on, RoGS has been institutionalised and the approach to performance reporting was central to the COAG reform agenda. Annual reports compare the equity, effectiveness, and efficiency of outputs and outcomes across governments in six key areas – childcare, education and training; health; justice; emergency management; community services; and housing and homelessness. Performance indicators and measures have increased the accountability of state and territory governments for their management of public funds. The significance of RoGS is the unprecedented scale and scope of performance indicators and its longevity. The services benchmarked in the 25th report in 2020 accounted for $247 billion, representing 70% of government recurrent expenditure and 13% of GDP.
KW - accountability
KW - benchmarking
KW - federalism
KW - performance reporting
KW - Productivity Commission
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107189636&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/1467-8500.12496
DO - 10.1111/1467-8500.12496
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85107189636
SN - 0313-6647
VL - 80
SP - 987
EP - 1001
JO - Australian Journal of Public Administration
JF - Australian Journal of Public Administration
IS - 4
ER -