1 / 13

COAG’s National Reform Agenda: Human Capital

Department of the Premier and Cabinet http://www.premcab.sa.gov.au. COAG’s National Reform Agenda: Human Capital. Dr Adam Graycar Head, Cabinet Office Department of the Premier and Cabinet Government of South Australia September 2006.

shasta
Download Presentation

COAG’s National Reform Agenda: Human Capital

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Department of the Premier and Cabinethttp://www.premcab.sa.gov.au COAG’s National Reform Agenda: Human Capital Dr Adam Graycar Head, Cabinet Office Department of the Premier and Cabinet Government of South Australia September 2006

  2. Department of the Premier and Cabinethttp://www.premcab.sa.gov.au Challenges for the coming years • Ageing population • Skills shortages • Changing international market including China and India

  3. Department of the Premier and Cabinethttp://www.premcab.sa.gov.au Three waves of reform • De-regulation • National Competition Policy • National Reform Initiative/Agenda

  4. NATIONAL REFORM AGENDA – [Senior Officials’ Meeting] COMPETITION AND REGULATION [C’th chair] (energy, transport, regulation, infrastructure, climate change) COAG Secretariat [C’th] HUMAN CAPITAL REFORM [C’th chair] Emissions Reporting [Chair to be agreed]* Infrastructure Regulation [C’th chair - Treasury] Climate Change [C’th & SA co-chair] Best Practice Regulation [C’th & NSW co-chair] Diabetes [Vic chair] Literacy and Numeracy [Qld chair] Early Childhood and Child Care [NSW chair] Data [SA chair] Other COAG Working Groups • Pandemic Preparedness [C’th chair] • Health Workforce [C’th and Qld co-chair] • Indigenous Affairs [chair to be agreed]* • Exchange of Criminal History Information [Qld chair] • Double Jeopardy [chair to be agreed]* COAG Reform Council [C’th Chair – PM&C] PC modelling [C’th chair – Treasury] • Additional Key Reports due to COAG in December 2006 and early 2007 • counter-terrorism (NCTC – C’th Chair) - MCEETYA (youth transitions) • AHMC (Australian Better Health Initiative) - MCVTE (possible further reform of vocational education and training) • skills - MCIMA (temporary entry and employment of skilled migrants) • five yearly infrastructure report - local government funding • stem-cell research (Lockhart Review) New working groups are indicated in italics. *Asterisks indicate that chairing arrangements are to be agreed.

  5. Department of the Premier and Cabinethttp://www.premcab.sa.gov.au Why have a Human Capital agenda? • What is ‘Human capital’? –a measure of the economic value of an employee’s skill set

  6. Policy options to improve productivity and participation Human Capital Education and Training Work Incentives Increased Participation Family Friendly Policy Health Industrial Relations Regulatory Reform R&D Infrastructure Increased Productivity Source: Page 9 A Third Wave of National Reform, Department of the Premier and Cabinet Victoria August 2005

  7. Department of the Premier and Cabinethttp://www.premcab.sa.gov.au Health aims • Reduce rates of illness, injury and disability • Reduce the burden of chronic disease and cancer • Reduce prevalence of key risk factors and increase productivity of the health system • Better overall health related to increased labour force participation Source: Economic Assessment of NCP and NRI Reforms, Australian Treasury Dec 2005

  8. Department of the Premier and Cabinethttp://www.premcab.sa.gov.au Education aims • Early Childhood – acquiring the basic skills for life and learning • Improving school performance – numeracy and literacy • Youth transitions – effective pathways between schooling/training and employment • Adult learning – more advanced skills • People with increased numeracy and literacy are likely to be more productive and more engaged with the community and therefore more likely to be labour force participants. Source: Based on ‘Economic Assessment of NCP and NRI Reforms’, Australian Treasury Dec 2005

  9. Department of the Premier and Cabinethttp://www.premcab.sa.gov.au Work incentives aims • Increase participation of under-employed sections of the population, for example • Increase mature age participation • Increase female participation • Encourage more welfare to work • Make regulations for skilled workers more flexible Source: Economic Assessment of NCP and NRI Reforms, Australian Treasury Dec 2005

  10. Links to social capital • The OECD definition of social capital: “networks, together with shared norms, values and understandings which facilitate cooperation within or among groups”

  11. COAG’s Human Capital Progress Measures • Indicative Outcome 2.1 – • ‘Significantly improve the proportion of children acquiring the basic skills for life and learning’ • Indicative Progress Measures • 2.1a) 0-3 years – no universal capture point or agreed measure • 2.1b) 3-5 years – no universal measure, Australian Early Development Index being trialled in all States

  12. Link between Social Capital and Human Capital • All children are born wired for feelings and ready to learn. • Early environments matter and nurturing relationships are essential. • Needs of young children should be addressed as society changes. • Interactions among early childhood science, policy, and practice are problematic and demand dramatic rethinking.

  13. Human capital Social capital Cultural capital Child wired to learn 13

More Related