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Recommendation 19
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Departmental oversight of RFCAs improved since 2019, implementing 70% of Sullivan Review recommendations.
Recommendation
The Department said that its oversight of the RFCAs had improved since the publication of the Sullivan Review in 2019, and that it had fully or partially implemented around 70% of the Review’s 80 recommendations. It now has a single senior responsible owner, the Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Reserves and Cadets), to coordinate the Department’s various stakeholders who deal with the RFCAs. The Department has also established a sponsor board, which meets twice a year, where it gets all the frontline commands and other key stakeholders, such as the Defence Infrastructure Organisation, around the table to discuss and hold to account the RFCAs to deliver the outputs that defence needs.28
Government Response
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