Following the Community Congress, the Update Team formed eleven working groups to refine recommendations on how to improve the plan and ensure that it better reflects the current priorities of the South Australian community.

Working groups were formed for each of the six objectives of the plan to refine specific suggestions for changes to targets. In addition, five whole-of-plan working groups were created to look at the following issues: community engagement (including governance and regionalising the plan); a vision statement; key interactions across the plan; increasing the profile of Aboriginal issues; and a data measurement group to act as a resource for the other working groups.

Members of the Update Team co-chaired each of the working groups. Over 200 people from disparate sectors of the community were involved in the working groups. Ministerial advisers and state government officers were also involved in many of the working groups. In their deliberations the groups were asked to draw on both the community engagement outcomes and the recommendations of the SASP Audit Committee’s SASP Progress Report 2006. An executive officer from a relevant government agency supported each of the working groups. The working groups provided reports to the Update Team in early October. These reports have formed the basis of the Update Team’s final recommendations to ExComm which are outlined in the Community Engagement Report.

Working group reports:

Aboriginal issues

Attaining Sustainability

Building Communities

Expanding Opportunity

Fostering Creativity

Governance regions

Growing Prosperity

Improving Wellbeing