PRESS RELEASE Poor housing, long delays, lack of communication rank highly in complaints to OCO OCO report makes recommendations, urges action from local authorities and Government Download report here Children’s Ombudsman, Emily Logan, has today (Monday) published a review of…
Read the Ombudsman for Children’s speech at the Merriman Summer School – Children as Citizens:the Public Policy Challenge (PDF, 44KB)
Friday, 21st August 2009 Speech by Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan at the Merriman Summer School In an orphanage in Warsaw in the early part of the twentieth century a man named Janusz Korczak, a paediatric doctor, created an environment…
The Ombudsman for Children’s Office understands that the report of An Bord Snip Nua (the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes) contains a proposal to merge the Ombudsman for Children’s Office with other organisations and to subsume…
Gaps in law, policy and practice mean that some children remain vulnerable and are not receiving the full support of the State, according to Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan, today (Wednesday) at the launch of her fourth annual report. The…
Children’s Ombudsman, Emily Logan, travels to Ankara today (Monday), at the invitation of UNICEF in Turkey. In collaboration with the Turkish Bar Association, UNICEF has organised an awareness raising week on ‘Independent Child Ombudsman’. The main purpose is the development…
Read the presentation by the Ombudsman for Children to the Joint Committee on Health and Children here (PDF, 30KB)
Statement on the investigation into the handling of the child protection Audit of Catholic Church Dioceses by the HSE and the Department of Health 09/06/09 The Ombudsman for Children’s Office has written to the HSE to inform them that following…
The Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse documents gross, systemic, and widespread violations of the rights of children placed in institutions in Ireland during the period 1936 to 2000. As Ombudsman for Children I have a statutory…
Read Opinion piece by the Ombudsman for Children for the Irish Daily Mail here (PDF, 15KB)