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• November 2024
• Type: Submission
• Topic: Family law

OCO submission on Family Courts Bill

The OCO has made a submission on the Family Courts Bill 2022. The OCO previously expressed the view, and continues to hold the view, that reform of the family justice system is long overdue. In our ...

• October 2024
• Type: Submission
• Topic: Education, Health

OCO submission on new National Strategy for Women and Girls

The OCO welcomes the development of a new National Strategy for Women and Girls (Strategy) along with the stated intention for this new Strategy to expand on the progress made by the previous Strategy and to ...

• October 2024

Priorities for Children in the 34th Dáil Term: Key Asks from the Ombudsman for Children’s Office

This document summarises the key asks and recommendations that the Ombudsman for Children’s Office has made in recent years through our reports, investigations and public statements. Many of these recommendations have been made repeatedly by the ...

• October 2024
• Type: Report
• Topic: Health

Scoliosis Treatment For Ivy 2024 Update

In June 2023 the Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) published an investigation into the effectiveness of the HSE multi-disciplinary planning process by Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Temple Street in providing scoliosis treatment to Ivy* (17), ...

• October 2024
• Type: Finance/OCO records
• Topic: OCO info

OCO Payments over €20,000 for Q3 2024

• October 2024
• Type: Finance/OCO records
• Topic: OCO info

OCO Prompt Payments Returns for Q3 2024

• October 2024
• Type: Report
• Topic: Housing

No End in Site 2024 Update

In May 2021 the Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) published No End in Site, an investigation into the living conditions on a Local Authority run halting site, accommodating 66 children and their families. Three years later, ...

• September 2024
• Type: Report
• Topic: Education

OCO In Focus: Fair Access to Transition Year

The Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) has received a number of complaints concerning young people who have been refused a place in their school’s Transition Year (TY) programme; some due to behaviour, mental health or disability. Parents, ...

• September 2024
• Type: Report
• Topic: Disability, Education

Two Years On Plan for Places: Progress Update on Forward Planning for the Provision of Schools Places for Children with Special Educational Needs

In June 2022, the OCO published Plan for Places, Forward Planning for the Provision of Schools Places for Children with Special Educational Needs: A Children’s Rights Issue. Plan for Places set out a series of recommendations ...

• August 2024

Submission to the UNCRC on General Comment No. 27 ‘Children’s Rights to Access to Justice and Effective Remedies’

Introduction The OCO is making this submission pursuant to section 7(1)(e), which provides for the Ombudsman for Children to highlight issues relating to the rights and welfare of children that are of concern to children. In ...