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  • 22 Bealtaine 2025

  1,772 complaints to OCO in 2024 highlights need for children’s rights to be fully incorporated into Irish law

  The Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) continued to receive a high volume of complaints about children’s public services last year, with 1,772 contacts about complaints made to the Office. The OCO’s Annual Report for 2024 Tomorrow ...

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  • 30 Aibreán 2025
  • Cineál: Preaseisiúint
  • Ábhar: Ceartas Óige

  OCO successful in calls for Child Centred Justice in Irish courts as new measures brought in for child defendants

  Following engagement with the Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO), the Department of Justice has introduced a new court accompaniment service for child defendants, which is being rolled out in over 100 youth diversion projects across the ...

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  • 9 Aibreán 2025
  • Cineál: Preaseisiúint
  • Ábhar: Sláinte

  Latest HIQA report is yet another deeply distressing turn in the crisis around access to scoliosis surgery for children in Ireland

  Comment from Ombudsman for Children, Dr Niall Muldoon: “This latest HIQA report into the use of the unauthorised springs at Temple Street Children’s Hospital is yet another deeply distressing turn in the crisis around access to ...

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  • 1 Aibreán 2025
  • Cineál: Preaseisiúint
  • Ábhar: Cosaint Leanaí

  Ombudsman for Children’s Office calls for introduction of Child Death Review Mechanism

  The Ombudsman for Children’s Office has today (Tuesday 1st, April) published Child Death Review; A Case for a National Child Death Review Mechanism for the Deaths of Children in Ireland. This report includes the stories of ...

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  • 11 Márta 2025
  • Cineál: Preaseisiúint
  • Ábhar: Oideachas

  OCO partners on new AI project for young people and youth workers

  The Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO), in partnership with Insight, Dublin City University (DCU), and the National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI), has launched a groundbreaking initiative to equip young people—especially those from marginalised backgrounds— and ...

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  • 20 Feabhra 2025
  • Cineál: Preaseisiúint

  Equal Footing: OCO highlights urgent need to regulate Home Care and Support Services for children

  The Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) is calling on the new Minister for Health to take on board the recent recommendations of the Oireachtas Health Committee to include children in regulations being developed for providers of ...

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  • 28 Eanair 2025
  • Cineál: Preaseisiúint

  Voices of Tomorrow- OCO Yap outlines key asks for new Government

  Young people from the Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) Youth Advisory Panel (YAP) have put forward their key asks for the new Government over the next five years. They are calling for improved mental health services ...

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  • 24 Eanair 2025
  • Cineál: Preaseisiúint
  • Ábhar: Oideachas, Sláinte

  High expectations on new Government in relation to children

  The incoming Government can expect strong engagement from the Ombudsman for Children’s Office in relation to their commitments for children and young people. The new Programme for Government outlines some very positive initiatives for children but ...

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  • 16 Márta 2024
  • Cineál: Ráiteas

  Statement from the OCO on the new guidelines for schools dealing with behaviours of concern

  The Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) welcomes the publication of these long-awaited guidelines, which we hope will provide much needed advice to schools, parents and children on how best to manage behaviours that may place children ...

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  • 4 Márta 2024
  • Cineál: Preaseisiúint
  • Ábhar: Cosaint Leanaí

  Children’s rights in the 34th Dáil – The Ombudsman for Children’s Office highlights need to consider children’s issues in the new Programme for Government

  As discussions now turn towards Government formation, the OCO is highlighting key areas affecting children that should be included in the new Programme for Government. Reflecting on the need to prioritise children, the Ombudsman for Children, ...