A Compliance Framework for the New Era

View and adhere with the mandated and voluntary boundaries, automating your regulatory and organizational compliance requirements that extend across strategic, corporate, departmental and all your governance compliance areas of responsibility.

Overview

Our Government Framework© allows for a fully integrated Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) solution that extends across strategic, corporate, departmental and all your governance compliance areas of responsibility.

Local Governments are in a phase of new era in terms of compliance. For every area of Local Government there is a piece of governing legislation that must always be adhered to whether it be internally or filtered through to external parties. Benchmarks are now being set by the industry in terms of compliance practices and procedures, such as complaint handling procedures in accordance with the relevant country standards, prosecution practices and so on.

We enable your organization to adhere with the mandated boundaries (laws and regulations) and voluntary boundaries (company’s policies and procedures) by consolidating relevant information into a single view and automating your regulatory and organizational compliance requirements.

Key Benefits

Helping organizations adhere to boundaries and regulations.

Commitment

Enable each department’s commitment to using its powers that are, and are seen to be, firm, fair and consistent.

Transparency

Demonstrate the transparency of the compliance process.

Regulation

Build good governance and provide effective regulation.

Community

Strengthen your organization’s capacity to meet community aspirations.

Integration

The benefits of integrating governance, risk and compliance (GRC)

Substantial duplication of tasks evolves when GRC are managed independently. Overlapping and duplicated GRC activities negatively impact both your organization’s operational costs and GRC matrices. For example, each internal service might be audited and assessed by multiple groups on an annual basis, creating unnecessary cost and disconnected results. Our connected approach allows your organization to access real-time consolidated GRC executive reports in an era when risks are interdependent, and controls are shared.

If not integrated, if tackled in a traditional “silo” approach, most organizations must sustain unmanageable numbers of GRC-related requirements due to changes in technology, increasing data storage, market globalization and increased regulation.

An integrated approach to compliance ensures the right people get the right information at the right times; that the right objectives are established; and that the right actions and controls are put in place to address uncertainty and act with integrity. When GRC is done right, the benefits accrue.

Benefits

  • Higher quality information by allowing management to make more intelligent decisions sooner.
  • Process optimization whereby non-value-added activities are eliminated, and value-added activities are streamlined to reduce lag time and undesirable variation.
  • Identification of areas of redundancy and inefficiency allows financial and human capital to be allocated more effectively.
  • The net effect of all the activities above means GRC activities are directed more effectively to the appropriate people and departments.
  • When risks are managed more effectively, the organization’s reputation is enhanced.
  • Lower costs contribute to the overall gains represented by effective GRC activities.
Model

An optimum compliance model

A compliance model in the Local Government and School District sectors should seek to educate and inform where genuine attempts at compliance are being made. Equally, it should impose the full force of the law when there is evidence of a serious non-compliance or systematic repetitive breaches. As part of a holistic approach to compliance, we help you build systems and processes that enable local government municipalities/councils and school districts to comply and routinely detect those who do not. We enable your departments to use a variety of tactics to obtain information about governance standards and/or in response to complaints about practices.

Optimization

Reduce compliance costs, duplication of compliance activities and impact on operations and move to an optimal model.

Information

Achieve greater information quality, consistency over repeat processes and the ability to gather information quickly and efficiently.

Rewards

Create an effective environment that can uncover some of the hidden rewards that may be achieved through enhanced compliance.

K-12 Schools

K-12 schools and compliance

Educational institutions must meet and observe a wide variety of guidelines and regulations set by both government agencies and nongovernmental associations to receive financial support and maintain accreditation. A school’s compliance officer spreads awareness of policies, coordinates programs to promote the observation of guidelines and reports to a top-level administrator.

In some instances, regulations may apply to an entire institution. In other cases, compliance officers work within a specific program or department, such as a university’s athletic department, where a compliance officer must ensure student-athletes conform to academic standards and don’t breach athletic association guidelines.

Our Government Framework© assists school compliance officers ensure faculty, staff and students operate within the guidelines and regulations governing an educational institution. It ensures they must stay up-to-date with current regulations, monitor these practices and maintain all records required to certify compliance. Our framework reporting assists a compliance officer to establish and build a relationship and communicate with the appropriate regulatory organizations.

Benefits:

  • Uncover better data for improved decisions as management learns more about what happens at the activity level.
  • Increased dedication to the interests of stakeholders, namely “protecting the collective student interest”.
  • Enhancement of relationships with regulators and other stakeholders.
  • Reporting of accurate and transparent information that is publicly accessible.
  • Clarity with stakeholders who pay for school services that the school is in compliant with its statutory obligations.
  • Help attract and retain talented teachers and administration staff and ensure employee engagement.

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