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Latest Releases - Type: Investigation
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- October 2023
- Type: Investigation
- Topic: Housing, Immigration
OCO Special Report on Safety and Welfare of Children in Direct Provision
The Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) has published a Special Report on the Safety and Welfare of Children in Direct Provision. This is the first time that a report of this kind has been laid before ...
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- June 2023
- Type: Investigation
- Topic: Health
Scoliosis Treatment for Ivy
Our investigation centres on the case of Ivy (17) who had been waiting for spinal fusion surgery for scoliosis for five years since 2016. During this time, Ivy, who was born with cerebral palsy, experienced major ...
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- December 2022
- Type: Investigation
- Topic: Housing
No End in Site: One Year On
The No End in Site report, published in 2021, detailed an investigation by the Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) into complaints made by 11 families who were living on a local authority housing site. This is ...
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- March 2022
- Type: Investigation
- Topic: Children in care, Health
Jack’s Case: One Year On
In 2020, the Ombudsman for Children’s Office published Jack’s case, our investigation into the care of a young boy with profound disabilities who suffered brain damage and significant life-changing injuries in a car accident as a ...
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- May 2021
- Type: Investigation
- Topic: Housing
No End in Site – An investigation into the living conditions of children living on a local authority halting site
The Ombudsman for Children’s Office presents No End in Site; An investigation into the living conditions of children living on a local authority site. A short video highlighting the voices of the children involved in this ...
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- January 2018
- Type: Investigation
- Topic: Children in care, Disability
Molly’s case: How Tusla and the HSE provided and coordinated supports for a child with a disability in the care of the State
This report provides details of Molly’s* case. Molly was born with Down Syndrome and severe autism, and was abandoned at birth by her biological parents. She has grown up with her foster family after being placed ...
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- July 2017
- Type: Investigation
- Topic: Child protection, Housing
Children homeless for two years after suffering domestic abuse
This report provides details of an investigation we carried out on a complaint we received in October 2014. We received this complaint from a parent on behalf of her children. She told us that she and ...
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- February 2015
- Type: Investigation
- Topic: Children in care
Own volition investigation into the HSE’s (now Tusla –the Child and Family Agency) registration, inspection and monitoring service for private and voluntary children’s residential centres.
In March 2013 the Ombudsman for Children decided to carry out a preliminary examination of her own volition into HSE registration, monitoring and inspection of voluntary and private residential centres for children in the care of ...
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- January 2014
- Type: Investigation
- Topic: Children in care
An investigation into a decision by the HSE (now Tusla, the Child and Family Agency) to cease a Section 10 Payment to a family
In September 2012, a complaint was submitted to this Office by the Aunt of a young person (A), who was then aged 15 years, regarding a decision by the HSE (now provided by Tusla) to cease ...
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- July 2013
- Type: Investigation
- Topic: Children in care, Education
A statement based on an investigation into provision by the Department of Education and Skills and the HSE for a child in care
In September 2010 this Office received a complaint from a Guardian ad litem (GAL) acting on behalf of a separated child, then aged 13 years, who was in the care of the HSE. This complaint was ...