Our Inaugural Two Year Report 2023-2025 (the report) summarises details about our successful establishment and our ongoing work to fulfill our functions according to the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022.
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission (the Commission) was established as a new and independent oversight body during a time of unprecedented reform in Victoria’s mental health and wellbeing system.
Operating under a high degree of public and sector expectation, the Commission was required to stand up its core functions while simultaneously delivering a high standard for oversight, engagement, and lived experience leadership.
Since its establishment, the Commission has navigated several challenges, including:
- A tight fiscal environment and funding uncertainty, creating pressure on future planning and operations
- Challenges in obtaining the data at the detail required to fulfill our statutory oversight functions
- The demands of rapid establishment, including setting up systems, governance, and recruiting a skilled workforce under tight timeframes
- Acting as an independent statutory entity while working alongside government entities on reform efforts.
Despite these challenges, the Commission has delivered on its foundational commitments, contributed meaningfully to system reform, and laid strong foundations for long-term impact.
This progress reflects a strategic focus and a deep commitment to elevating lived experience as central to mental health system transformation and reform - the central tenet of the Royal Commission’s outcomes.
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