Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Multicultural Victoria Act 2004 - SECT 19

PART 4 REPORTING REQUIREMENTS OF GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AND MINISTER

Reporting requirements of Government Departments

19. Reporting requirements of Government Departments

As soon as practicable after the end of each financial year, each Department
Head must prepare and submit to the Minister a report on-

   (a)  the use of interpreting and translating services by the Department
        during the financial year; and

   (b)  communications in languages other than English and communications in
        the ethnic media made by the Department during the financial year; and

   (c)  any major improvements made, or initiatives developed, by the
        Department during the financial year that promote multiculturalism in
        Victoria and meet the identified needs of Victoria's culturally and
        linguistically diverse communities, including the identified needs of
        youth, older persons and women within these communities; and

   (d)  the extent to which people from different cultural and linguistic
        backgrounds were represented during the financial year on boards and
        committees established by the Department or for which the Department
        is administratively responsible; and

   (e)  the Department's progress under its cultural diversity plan to address
        provision for culturally sensitive service delivery to Victoria's
        communities; and



   (f)  any initiatives developed by the Department that meet the identified
        needs of culturally and linguistically diverse communities in regional
        and rural areas of Victoria; and

   (g)  any measures taken by the Department to promote human rights in
        accordance with the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities for
        multicultural communities.