Green Loans Program Audit Report 29/09/10

The following is quoted from the ANAO Australian National Audit Office's website, regarding the recently released audit into the failure of the Green Loans Program.

"On 3 February 2010, Senator Christine Milne wrote to the Auditor General raising concerns about DEWHA’s administration of the Green Loans program and requesting a performance audit of the program. Issues raised included: uncapped assessor numbers; problems with the delivery of the program; the quality of assessor training and assessments provided to households; the lack of an audit facility within the program; and equitable access to work under the program.

In light of Senator Milne’s request and other concerns in relation to the administration of the program, the Auditor-General agreed on 25 February 2010 to conduct a performance audit of the program. The objective of the audit was to examine key aspects of the establishment and administration of the Green Loans program by DEWHA and the program’s transition to DCCEE. Particular emphasis was given to the program’s three main elements:

• training, registration and contracting of assessors;
• scheduling, conduct, and reporting of home sustainability assessments, and the associated payments to assessors; and
• provision of green loans to householders, and the associated payments to participating financial institutions.

The audit also examined the extent to which steps had been taken by DEWHA and DCCEE to assess whether the Green Loans program was achieving its objectives."

Visit the ANAO website here or download the audit into who was responsible here.

Please use this blog to leave your comments on the audit. And if like GLPAssessor you still feel that you have been let down by both the Government and ABSA, leave your vote on this site.

How can you have a professional body in charge of training, that knowingly over trains, or allows the supposed allocation of assessors to grow to an unsustainable number, knowing that the system will break?

Could a system such as that, if having trainers on the board ever argue their way out of a conflict of interest? And could such a system be their really 100% in favour of voicing assessors opinions in a true honest sustainable workplace, for all parties concerned?

We must remember that a similar Green Loans Program operated in the UK. Where the only winners before the system over trained the nembers, were the Fat Cat Trainers.....

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