The Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan, has today (Tuesday) criticised the continuing use of adult psychiatric wards for the treatment of children, and has called for the implementation of the recommendations of A Vision for Change to proceed without further…
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Emily Logan, Ombudsman for Children, is this week attending a special United Nations (UN) plenary meeting in New York convened to review the implementation of the UN document, A World Fit for Children. The Ombudsman for Children is in New…
On the eve of the International Day of Disabled Persons (Monday, December 3rd) the Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan, has called on the Government to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities without delay. The Ombudsman…
Emily Logan, Ombudsman for Children, today (Monday, 26 November) met with Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights. During their meeting, the Ombudsman for Children raised a number of issues with Commissioner Hammarberg, each relating to vulnerable groups…
The results of the national Big Ballot, an unprecedented process of consultation with children and young people across Ireland, were announced today (Tuesday, November 20th) at Dublin City Hall. Nationally, the issue which children have identified as being of most…
Tens of thousands of young people nationally are casting vote Results will be announced on November 20th Children and young people from more than 1,000 schools and training centres throughout the country are this week voting on issues which are…
The Office of the Ombudsman for Children will tomorrow (Thursday) present an independent report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child which will outline a number of concerns regarding Ireland’s compliance with the optional protocol concerning the…
More than 1,030 primary and post-primary schools, Youthreach centres and Senior Traveller Training Centres from all over the country will take part in Ireland’s first ever nationwide poll of children young people, which will help shape the work of the…
Problems with the current school transport system present a significant obstacle to many parents supporting their children’s Constitutional right to education, particularly in rural areas, according to the Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan, today (Thursday). The Children’s Ombudsman made her…