The department’s strategic planning and management includes business, financial and budget planning processes and policy management to achieve strategic outcomes.

Risk management is an integral part of the department’s planning and management processes and an essential function of good governance.

Planning

Our planning system starts with our purpose and Strategy for Public Education in South Australia. It covers:

• corporate services
• sites (preschools and schools)
• individual personal development plans.

Our planning, monitoring and reporting are dependent on each other. The information reported feeds back into the planning process to help make decisions about the direction of the department.

Strategy for Public Education in South Australia

Our purpose statement and Strategy for Public Education in South Australia is the highest level planning tool for our department. All other plans follow on from it. It details the:

• areas of impact that we will prioritise
• levers we will activate across the system
• guiding principles that will be used to make sure this strategy can be delivered as it was designed – starting with our learners.

Our strategy guides our decisions in working towards our areas of impact and allocating resources against:

• effective teaching
• empowered leadership
• engaging children and young people
• improvement and responsibility
• resourcing and investment
• strengthening supports
• partnering with families and communities.

Strategic management framework

The strategic management framework supports the planning, implementation and delivery of our strategy. The focus for the strategic management framework is to provide a cohesive, coordinated, transparent approach to connecting strategic planning, operational planning, performance review and the implementation of system reforms within the governance, risk and performance development frameworks.

The aim for the strategic management framework is to establish a clear line of sight from our purpose and strategy through to the annual business plans and individual performance development plans.

An overview of the strategic management framework is in our governance framework (PDF 496 KB) .