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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1988

"THE ALTERNATIVE MIGHT BE TO PLACE

PLANNING AND WORKS UNDER TO ENSURE THAT TWO SEPARATE SECRETARIES, WHICH WOULD BE MORE LIKELY BOTH ASPECTS RECEIVE THE ATTENTION THEY NEED AT THE SECRETARY LEVEL.

CLOSE CO-ORDINATION AND "THIS WOULD, OF COURSE, REQUIRE VERY

|| SIR DAVID CO-OPERATION BETWEEN THE TWO SECRETARIES IF IT IS TO WORK,

SAID.

SIR DAVID ADDED THAT HE WAS CONFIDENT THE GOVERNMENT ABLE TO FINALISE PLANS FOR THE NEW STRUCTURE BY THE END OF AND IMPLEMENT THEM IN THE EARLY PART OF 1989.

WOULD BE THIS YEAR

COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM OF PROMOTION IN CIVIL SERVICE

OF REPORTING RISE TO THE

THE CIVIL SERVICE HAS NOW A COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM AND SELECTION DESIGNED TO ENSURE THAT THOSE WITH TALENT TOP, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, THE HON SIR DAVID FORD, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

THE RESUMED

POLICY

DEBATE,

TOP

SIR DAVID SAID SPEAKING IN ACCELERATED PROMOTION WAS COMMON PLACE AND MANY WERE REACHING THE EARLIER IN THEIR CAREERS.

THE AVERAGE AGE OF POLICY SECRETARIES FOR EXAMPLE HAS 15 FROM 56 FIVE YEARS AGO TO 52 AT PRESENT, AND FIVE OUT OF ARE NOW UNDER 50.

AS

CIVIL

SIR DAVID DESCRIBED BELIEF THAT PROMOTION IN THE LENGTH OF SERVICE RATHER THAN MERIT,

DECLINED OF THEM

THE "NONSENSE"

WAS SERVICE

SEEMINGLY WIDESPREAD

BASED ON

AGE AND

SIR DAVID STRESSED THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS AT PAINS THAT THE SYSTEM WAS AS FAIR AS POSSIBLE.

TO ENSURE

"THE

SELECTION

OF OFFICERS

RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE

LEVELS HAS FOR SOME YEARS

CONDUCTED BY

CAPABLE OF AND

THE REACHING DIRECTORATE

BEEN BASED ON REGULAR THE HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS

TAKING MOST SENIOR

REVIEW EXERCISES WITH THE

IN CONSULTATION

SECRETARY OF THE CIVIL SERVICE AND THEIR RELATED POLICY SECRETARIES.

ON

DIRECTORATE IMMEDIATE "APART FROM

PROCESS INVOLVES "TALENT SPOTTING" IDENTIFYING TRAINING REQUIREMENTS TO BRING ON HE ADDED.

FOR

LONGER

SUCCESSION PLANNING,

THE

TERM SUITABLE INDIVIDUALS,

THE AND

H

/ON THE

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