12Functions and powers of Implementation Monitor

12 Functions and powers of Implementation Monitor

(1)  The functions of the Implementation Monitor are –

(a) to monitor the implementation of the recommendations contained in the relevant reform reports of each of the following:

(i) the Commission of Inquiry;

(ii) the Independent Inquiry into the Tasmanian Department of Education’s Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, in respect of which a final report was released on 7 June 2021;

(iii) the review of child safety and governance in the Launceston General Hospital and Human Resources, in respect of which the Independent Report from the Co-Chairs for the Child Safe Governance Review of the Launceston General Hospital and Human Resources was submitted, on 9 December 2022, to the Secretary of the Department of Health;

(iv) such other commission, inquiry or review, or such part of a commission, inquiry or review, that –

(A) relates to child safety and wellbeing in institutions operated by, or on behalf of, the State; and

(B) is referred to the Implementation Monitor in accordance with section 13 ; and

(b) to monitor the implementation of the recommendations contained in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, presented to the Governor-General on 15 December 2017, that –

(i) were accepted by the Tasmanian Government in the response tabled in Parliament in June 2018; and

(ii) in the opinion of the Implementation Monitor, have yet to be implemented on the day on which this section commences; and

(c) to evaluate the effectiveness of implementation actions including, but not limited to, the impact of those actions on the safety and wellbeing of children who may be impacted by child sexual abuse; and

(d) to report to the Tasmanian Parliament on the Implementation Monitor’s findings while –

(i) monitoring the implementation of the monitored recommendations; or