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Fact sheet: Protecting complainants and witnesses

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Agencies should ensure they have measures in place for protecting complainants and witnesses from adverse consequences of coming forward with concerns or information, and should ensure complainants and witnesses are made aware of these, and of the support available to them.

Fact sheet: Preliminary considerations

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A formal misconduct process is one option available to agencies when behaviour does not meet expectations, but it will not be a suitable or proportionate response in every case.

Fact sheet: Options for managing lower risk behaviours

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Management action may be considered where agencies have assessed an employee’s behaviour to be less serious, or to pose a lower risk to public confidence in the APS.

Fact sheet: Key roles in the misconduct process

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There are a number of key roles in a misconduct process, and agencies need to consider whether it is appropriate for the same person to fulfil more than one.

Fact sheet: Changes in role, assigning different duties, and suspension

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Agencies should consider whether it is appropriate for the person under investigation to remain in their current role, or in the workplace, while the misconduct process takes place.

Fact sheet: Overview of misconduct investigations

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Undertaking a misconduct investigation includes gathering and assessing evidence—and, in many cases, preparing an investigation report—to inform a breach determination that is sound and defensible.

Fact sheet: Recordkeeping requirements

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Records relating to misconduct action need to be kept separate from the personnel file of the employee or former employee.

Fact sheet: Additional resources

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This factsheet outlines a range of additional resources that may be helpful when planning or conducting misconduct investigations.

Fact sheet: Raising behavioural concerns and reporting suspected misconduct

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The Australian Public Service Commissioner’s Directions 2022 (the Commissioner’s Directions) provide that upholding the ‘Ethical’ Value requires each employee, having regard to their duties and responsibilities, to report and address misconduct and other unacceptable behaviour by public servants in a fair, timely, and effective way (s.13(f) of the Commissioner’s Directions).

Fact sheet: Preparing for a misconduct investigation

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Preparing for a misconduct investigation includes scoping and planning, formulating allegations, and notifying an employee or former employee that they are the subject of a misconduct investigation.