The ambitious extension of the state’s digital initiative and a restructuring of backoffice services, to be led by Danny Pearson, were both announced by the premier of Victoria, Dan Andrews.
Pearson will be in charge of a new ministry of government services established to handle the project under the terms of the new cabinet sworn in yesterday.
He will continue in his role as assistant treasurer and serve as minister for consumer affairs, Worksafe, and the Transport Accident Commission.
Increasing the reach of the Service Victoria app and centralising back-office government processes are two of Pearson’s new ministry’s mandates, according to Andrews.
In the beginning, he remarked, “We will centralise corporate services for central agencies, but [also] [provide] a proper home for Service Victoria.”
The first centralised backoffice services will be for Treasury and Finance, as well as Premier and Cabinet.
The government will eventually “centralise the component parts of other government ministries in one location.”
We’ll be considerably more productive if we consolidate all that, according to Andrews.
The initiative “will be a significant part a self-funded exercise,” according to Andrews, because of the anticipated efficiency.
He stated that he wanted “a true home for Service Victoria, as well as for so many other touchpoints where Victorians reach into the Victorian government for the support they need, and for things they need to do like licencing” in reference to the Service Victoria app.
Andrews hopes that the one touchpoint strategy will eventually be used throughout the government. A seamless interaction between a Victorian family or business and the government