Governance

Our Board

The Multicap Board is tasked with ensuring sound governance practices are in place. As part of an overarching governance review in 2018, the Board approved a new Governance Policy and a Multicap Board Charter, and reviewed and updated all governance documents.

Our Policies

The Multicap Board sets the strategic direction for the organisation by formulating and approving the Multicap Strategic Plan. The Strategic Plan is revisited each year at the Board Planning Day, then passed to the CEO and Senior Executive Management team for implementation. The Board and CEO oversee, monitor, and report on agreed actions.

The Board’s work is supported by committees. As part of the governance review, these were reviewed and realigned to better support the organisation. The Board currently has four committees: Strategy, Finance and Audit, and Risk, Quality and Systems.

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 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 have their voices heard about decisions that impact their lives.

Multicap respects diversity in cultures and child-rearing practices, and 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 safety and wellbeing early, and removing or reducing these risks fostering a culture of openness that supports safe disclosure of risks of harm treating all allegations and safety concerns seriously
– enacting legal and moral obligations to contact authorities when worried about a child or young person’s safety
– ensuring workers act in accordance with Multicap’s Code of Conduct and associated procedures
– championing children’s and young people’s rights and modelling best practice robust human resources and recruitment practices that minimise risk of abuse by Directors, workers and volunteers
– incident management processes that assertively respond to safety concerns within required timeframes
– routinely training and educating Directors, workers and volunteers on risks and responsibilities regarding abuse of children and young people

Conflict of Interest Summary Statement

Vertaview Group is made up of organisations committed to creating lasting, positive impact on the lives of people with disability and mental ill health, and the ageing community. All members of Vertaview Group act in customers’ best interests, ensuring they are informed, empowered, and able to maximise choice and control. Some services offered within the Group overlap; customers who choose one service are not required to choose related or additional services from any other Group member.