The Sport Governance Standards (SGS) are the measures by which both State and Territory Agencies for Sport and Recreation and State Sporting Organisations (SSOs) can evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of their governance systems and processes. The same process has been undertaken by Sport Australia and National Sporting Organisations (NSO) at a federal level.

The SGS have been co-designed with the Australian sport sector to achieve continuous governance improvement in all sporting organisations, with an increased focus on accountability and transparency.

Using the SGS as an organisational governance evaluation tool, government agencies are able to identify, advise, support, resource, as well as educate partners. In doing so, agencies work with the SSOs to continually improve their governance systems and process.

Instructions to complete:

Your organisation is required to complete a self-assessment against each of the SGS by selecting the response which best captures your current governance maturity level.

• Throughout the assessment, you will notice that many questions have an info icon preceding the question number. Click on this for definitions of terms which will provide further context to support your responses.

• If your organisation falls between two response options, select the less mature option and insert additional comments or detail in the box under the standard to provide further clarity on your current governance state (for example referring to the example Standard below - if your board has a directors code of conduct that is reviewed annually but not published or annually executed you would select option 2 and detail that it is not published or annually executed in the additional comments box:

1. The board has not implemented a directors' code of conduct

2. The board has a directors' code of conduct, executed by its directors during their induction

3. The board publishes directors' code of conduct, which is reviewed annually by the board and annually executed by all directors

4. The board publishes directors' code of conduct, which is reviewed annually by the board (and with input from stakeholders) and annually executed by all directors. The code directly integrates behavioural expectations with the organisation’s values)

• Your government agency representative will review responses and may contact you for further clarity or to request further supporting information.

• The results will be collated, with an annual benchmark reporting being produced for the sector.