About The Cabinet Office
The Cabinet Office ensures robust Cabinet decision-making by ensuring policies and proposals submitted for consideration are of the highest quality and in line with government priorities.
The department’s purpose is: Leading policy, strategy and integrity from the heart of government.
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About The Cabinet Office
The Cabinet Office’s role is to provide:
- Leads and coordinates strategy and policy across government, including driving action on the Government’s key priorities.
- Provides expert independent policy, legal and governance advice to the Premier and Cabinet, including on National Cabinet matters.
- Upholds Cabinet conventions and provides stewardship of the NSW Cabinet system to support good decision-making.
Our people and structure
The Cabinet Office is made up of 3 groups:
- Office of General Counsel
- Social Policy and National Reform
- Economic and Environmental Policy.
Our values
Integrity
- Consider people equally without prejudice or favour.
- Act professionally with honesty, consistency and impartiality.
- Take responsibility for situations, showing leadership and courage.
- Place the public interest over personal interest.
Trust
- Appreciate difference and welcome learning from others.
- Build relationships based on mutual respect.
- Uphold the law, institutions of government and democratic principles.
- Communicate intentions clearly and invite teamwork and collaboration.
- Provide apolitical and non-partisan advice.
Service
- Provide services fairly with a focus on customer needs.
- Be flexible, innovative and reliable in delivering services.
- Engage with the not-for-profit and business sectors to develop and implement service solutions.
- Focus on quality while maximising service delivery.
Accountability
- Recruit and promote employees on merit.
- Take responsibility for decisions and actions.
- Provide transparency to enable public scrutiny.
- Observe standards for safety.
- Be fiscally responsible and focus on efficient, effective and prudent use of resources.