The Government is committed to providing high quality public services that are focused on the things that matter most to New Zealanders.

To support this, the Government has established the Better Public Services Advisory Group. The Advisory Group is responsible for prioritising, driving and coordinating public sector reform. View the media release about the Advisory Group.

You can find out more about the Better Public Services programme, and public sector reform (including background papers and international research), on this site.

What's new

The Advisory Group is working alongside, and coordinating with, public sector leaders already implementing or designing their own reform initiatives which contribute to Better Public Services. You can find out more about the work under way in our Other Initiatives section.

3 October 2011

Transforming NZ's court processes through new approaches to recording and transcribing evidence, and an online innovation forum within the NZ Defence Force: two more examples of innovative thinking from the New Zealand public sector. Read these, along with other case studies of how the public sector is doing things differently, in the Background Papers and Case Studies section.

21 September 2011

Links to international resources, including the US Government's central website tracking progress on improving performance and accountability

21 September 2011

To support the Better Public Services Advisory Group, the Secretariat has prepared a number of issues papers and case studies demonstrating innovative thinking from New Zealand’s public sector. Further papers have been published in anticipation of, and in response to, requests from the public. You can find these papers in the Progressing Better Public Services and Background Papers and Case Studies sections of this site.

Read the media release announcing the publication here.

7th September 2011

On 11th August 2011, the Government announced decisions on changes which will reduce the number of crown entities, thereby improving coordination and reducing duplication across the public sector.

Read the media release and cabinet minutes and papers on the agreed changes.

11th August 2011

There is a wealth of national and international literature setting out thinking and research around how public services are best provided. Read some of the latest reports in our Literature & Resources section.

27th July 2011

On 31 May 2011 the Government announced:

• the formation of the Better Public Services Advisory Group. Read the media release announcing the establishment of the Group.
• that it has instructed officials to investigate the rationalisation and consolidation of a number of Crown entities, as a next step in making government agencies more streamlined, productive and efficient. Read the Crown entities media release.

31st May 2011

Additional information relating to the state sector reform programme will be posted regularly on the news and resources of these web pages. as planning evolves.

  

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