Greater Dandenong City Council is a public body subject to the Public Interest Disclosures Act 2012. The purpose of the Act is to:
- encourage and facilitate disclosures of improper conduct by public officers and public bodies, which includes the Greater Dandenong City Council and its staff and Councillors
- encourage and facilitate disclosures of detrimental action taken in reprisal for a person making a disclosure under this Act
- provide protection for persons who make disclosures under the Act; provide protection for persons who may suffer detrimental action in reprisal for those disclosures and
- provide for the confidentiality of the content of those disclosures and the identity of persons who make those disclosures.
Greater Dandenong City Council recognises the value of transparency and accountability in its administrative and management practices, and supports the making of disclosures that reveal improper conduct. It does not tolerate improper conduct by the organisation, its employees or its Councillors, nor the taking of reprisals against those who come forward to disclose such conduct
This policy outlines how the Public Interest Disclosures Act 2012 operates within the Greater Dandenong City Council.
