Centacare Brisbane is an entity of The Corporation of the Trustees of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane. Centacare represents the archdiocese in facilitating a broad range of community and pastoral services in southeast Queensland.

Centacare's corporate governance framework is advocated by the Centacare Council, executive director, directors and senior management, who encourage staff to carry out their duties in an ethical and responsible manner in support of Centacare's community welfare and justice mission.

Centacare's Governance and Risk Directorate works with the Centacare Council, directors and managers to design, develop and implement organisation-wide quality and operational systems that:

• Establish and manage the framework for maintaining Centacare's various policies and procedures
• Oversees the development and maintenance of a quality network which brings together the appropriate team members across the organisation
• Manages the process associated with Centacare's strategic and risk planning and performance reporting, quality assurance and improvement activities
• Ensures annual risk and fraud prevention checks are undertaken using appropriate risk management techniques
• Manages the executive office support team functions
• Manages corporate communications and marketing team functions

Centacare has two Australian Business Numbers (ABNs) as parts of Centacare have been deemed to fit within the Australian Taxation Office classification of a public benevolent institution (PBI):

• PBI ABN          35 020 644 975
• Non-PBI ABN 51 626 296 801

Australian Taxation Office characteristics of a public benevolent institution (PBI):

• A PBI is a non-profit institution organised for the direct relief of poverty, sickness, suffering, distress, misfortune, disability or helplessness.

Characteristics of a PBI:

• Set up for needs that require benevolent relief
• Relieves those needs by directly providing services to people suffering from them
• Carried on for the public benefit
• Non-profit
• An institution
• Dominant purpose is providing benevolent relief

Community Support, Disability, Employment, Family and Relationships and Pastoral services are contained within the PBI. Accounting and Finance, Child Care services and Governance and Risk are deemed non-PBI activities. In line with good corporate governance measures, Centacare Council supports the maintenance of a separate entity to house non-PBI activities.