The audit was undertaken to determine whether Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) has established effective governance arrangements for anti-doping and is effectively managing the National Anti-Doping Scheme. The report makes seven recommendations, which SIA agreed to implementing.

Findings

• SIA’s management of the National Anti-Doping Scheme is partly effective.
• Governance arrangements for anti-doping are partly fit for purpose.
• Anti-doping prevention and detection is largely effective for sports that have government funded testing arrangements, and partly effective for sports that have ‘user pays’ arrangements.
• SIA’s arrangements to investigate and respond to anti-doping rule violations are partly effective.

Recommendations

1. Develop effectiveness and efficiency measures and targets for anti-doping testing and investigations activities.
2. Improve controls for identifying and managing potential conflicts of interest.
3. Establish a procedure for the test distribution planning process for user pays sports.
4. Establish a documented methodology for evaluating test distribution planning for government and user pay sports, and document outcomes from evaluations.
5. Undertake annual risk assessment to inform test distribution planning for all sports subject to regulation.
6. Establish controls to ensure that documented investigative practices and procedures are implemented, or update procedures to reflect current endorsed practice.
7. Implement a quality assurance process for investigations that captures all types of investigations.