IG office launches reform review

The Office of the Inspector-General of Aged Care has commenced a review of the government’s response to the royal commission and is seeking submissions from people and organisations across the aged care system.

The Inspector-General of Aged Care is obliged to conduct two progress reports and two reviews of the Commonwealth’s implementation of each of the 148 royal commission recommendations, under the Inspector-General of Aged Care Act 2023.

Progress reports were completed in June 2024 and June 2025, and this review will assess whether the government’s aged care reforms are likely to deliver the royal commission’s intended outcomes in:

• people-centred aged care
• leadership and government accountability
• access and navigation
• high quality and safe care and support
• an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander aged care pathway
• equitable aged care
• regulation and provider accountability
• workforce
• sustainable aged care.

Older people, their families and carers or advocates, aged care providers, people who work in aged care, peak bodies, researchers and academics, unions, community organisations and government agencies are all encouraged to provide feedback. 

The report will be provided to the Minister for Aged Care and Seniors by 1 November. The minister will then table the report in both houses of parliament within 15 sitting days. It will then be published on the Office of the Inspector-General of Aged Care website.

Submissions can be made online or stakeholders can download a submission template and mail or email it to the Inspector-General’s office.

Submissions are open until 29 January 2027.

Information on how to participate can be found here.

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