Fresh call to include children’s rights in Constitution by Ombudsman for Children on Universal Children’s Day Almost 1/3 population without adequate rights. To mark Universal Children’s Day (Sunday, 20th November), Emily Logan, Ireland’s first Ombudsman for Children, has made a…
Serious issues about child protection are raised in today’s report. While it deals with matters that took place between 1960s to 1980s, I have real concerns that as a society, we may not have yet learned sufficient lessons to ensure…
Emily Logan, the Ombudsman for Children, has welcomed the Suicide Prevention Strategy, published today and in particular the new National Office for Suicide Prevention, to be set up immediately by the HSE. Emily said: “I will be contacting Geoff Day,…
75% increase in complaints to Ombudsman for Children’s Office since May The President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, will officially open the new premises of the Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) today (Saturday). This will complete the set up phase of…
BINOCC collectively protects rights of 14 million children Ireland’s first Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan, will join her British counterparts for the first ever meeting of the British and Irish Network of Ombudsman and Commissioners for Children (BINOCC) in Chester,…
Hundreds of children and families already avail of services by Ombudsman for Children’s Office Despite the hundreds of children and families helped to date, the Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan, has expressed serious concerns about the groups of vulnerable young…
Statement on the ruling by the Council of Europe’s European Committee of Social Rights that Ireland’s failure to ban corporal punishment of children is a breach of our international human rights obligations The decision of the European Committee of Social…
The Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan today (Tuesday) outlined to the All Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution why children and young people’s rights should be expressly stated in the Constitution. “The current position of children in the Irish Constitution…
The Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan today (Tuesday) outlined to the All Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution why children and young people’s rights should be expressly stated in the Constitution. “The current position of children in the Irish Constitution…