Proposed reform: Structural Change Management Plan for the Value NSW Enabling Functions

  11 June 2026

As part of its industrial obligations, Value NSW must consult with the Public Service Association (PSA) on workplace change, including development of a Change Management Plan (CMP) to guide the process.

The Value NSW CMP contains the rationale for change, the proposed organisational structure, the staff affected by the proposed reform, and the placement methods proposed to reduce adverse impact.

From the perspective of the PSA, consultation involves an interrogation the rationale for change, the data used to support it, and genuine consideration of alternative models to those initially proposed.

The Value NSW proposal involves an increase in overall numbers of staff and the complexity of roles.

Members will note the biggest cohort of affected staff are the ones who are at the lowest grades. Under the current proposal, these staff currently have no opportunity to be directly appointed in any part of the Value NSW.

The agency’s proposal is predicated on the assumption that system transformation will drive efficiencies in administration through the centralisation of functions.

The PSA is always sceptical of the capacity of projects such as this to deliver on the  efficiencies promised. And Value NSW has been down this path before.

The PSA encourages members to provide questions and commentary on the proposal to the agency, as well as the PSA. A question we have already asked is why does the proposed model plan to delete ongoing roles while continuing with temporary and contingent labour?

Those who wish to contact the PSA regarding their response to the reform can contact the Industrial officer Shane Howes or the PSA workplace delegates Alex Bannister and Charles Lui.