Terms of Reference
- The NTER Review has been established with the following terms of reference:
- examine evidence and assess the overall progress of the NTER in improving
the safety and wellbeing of children and laying the basis for a sustainable
and better future for residents of remote communities in the NT, and
in particular, in improving the education, health, community safety
and employment outcomes for citizens, and particularly women and children,
resident in remote communities and town camps in the NT;
- consider what is and isn’t working and whether the current
suite of NTER measures will deliver the intended results, whether any
unintended consequences have emerged and whether other measures should
be developed or ways of working applied to better address circumstances
facing remote communities in the NT; and
- in relation to each NTER measure, make an assessment of its effects
to date, and recommend any required changes to improve each measure
and monitor performance.
- In making these assessments and recommendations, the Review Board is
to give particular regard to the Government’s intention that Indigenous
interests be engaged to ensure effective policy development and implementation
processes, and that policy and program measures to be adopted or endorsed
by the Government give primacy to the interests of families and children,
and have regard to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth).
- The Review is to take into account both the original measures of the
NTER announced in June 2007, and those adjustments made during the first
12 months.
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