A year of transformation, achievement, and collaboration
We are proud to present our 2024–25 annual report, marking a year of transformation, achievement, and collaboration across Victoria’s integrity system.
This year, we successfully transitioned from the Victorian Inspectorate to Integrity Oversight Victoria — a name that better reflects our important role in assuring parliament and the community that Victoria’s integrity and investigatory bodies exercise their powers appropriately and responsibly.
Our new Chief Integrity Inspector, Louise Macleod, joined us in May 2025, following the resignation of Eamonn Moran PSM KC, whose advocacy and foresight helped change our name and shape our new identity.
Under the stewardship of CEO/General Counsel Cathy Cato, and with the ongoing dedication of our talented team, we achieved strong performance results across the entire organisation, both operationally and throughout our corporate functions.
We launched a secure reporting portal to enhance accessibility for anonymous complainants and implemented our witness welfare framework. Our remit expanded to include oversight of the Parliamentary Workplace Standards and Integrity Commission, and we strengthened collaboration across the system — signing our first-ever memorandums of understanding with IBAC and the Victorian Ombudsman.
Internally, we focused on continuous improvement, implementing a ‘Towards Zero’ campaign promoting respect, safety and inclusion within the workplace.
Over the next 12 months we will be monitoring IBAC’s handling and oversight of complaints about Victoria Police to assess the effectiveness of IBAC’s referral procedure implemented in response to our recommendations in the ‘Emma’ special report. This includes a focus on recording reasons for referrals, assessing and responding to welfare risks and individual rights, considering conflicts of interest, and communication of outcomes to complainants.
We will increase our proactive engagement with other integrity agencies to promote system improvements and build stronger relationships, including partnering with IBAC to host an integrity leader’s forum about the public interest disclosure scheme, its challenges and opportunities for reform.
We will also undertake our first stakeholder survey to help us better understand the needs, concerns and expectations of the integrity bodies we oversee and help us better influence improvements.
Ongoing work on our organisational capabilities is also a priority over the next 12 months. Under the expert guidance and leadership of our corporate team we will develop our next 3-year ICT strategy and workforce strategy, implement a cloud-hosted complaint management system, embed an improved information and records management framework and implement a policy review and awareness framework to support staff knowledge management and training.
We thank our staff for their professionalism, resilience and commitment throughout a year of significant change and look forward to the year ahead.
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