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  • October 2021
  • Type: Finance/OCO records

  OCO Payments over €20,000 for Q1 2021

  OCO Payments over €20,000 for Q1 2021

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  • October 2021

  Prompt Payment Return Q3 2021

  Prompt Payment Return for Q3 2021

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  • September 2021
  • Type: Research
  • Topic: Online

  Digital Voices: Progressing children’s right to be heard through social and digital media

  Digital Voices: Progressing children’s right to be heard through social and digital media is new research carried out by the Technological University Dublin for the Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO). Digital Voices investigates opportunities to mobilise ...

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  • September 2021

  A Better Normal: Eradicate Child Poverty. Eliminate Child Homelessness

  The Ombudsman for Children’s Office is calling for the establishment of a time-limited, cross departmental Joint Oireachtas Committee to bring together Government departments, those working in the children’s sector and other experts to make a swift ...

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  • August 2021

  Making a Complaint to the Ombudsman for Children’s Office – Information for Children

  This booklet provides information for children on how they can make a complaint to the Ombudsman for Children’s Office.

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  • July 2021
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: Finance/OCO records

  Financial Statement 2019

  Financial reports provide information on the performance of the Ombudsman for Children’s Office. They allow us to be held accountable for how we manage and use the money we receive. We are required by law to ...

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  • July 2021
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: Finance/OCO records

  Prompt Payments returns Q2 2021

  Prompt Payments returns Q2 2021

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  • July 2021
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: Finance/OCO records

  Protected Disclosures Annual Report 2020

  Protected Disclosures Annual Report 2020

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  • June 2021
  • Type: Report

  2020 Childhood Paused – OCO Annual Report

  The Ombudsman for Children’s Office is required under law to submit to the Oireachtas an Annual Report on the performance of our functions. The Annual Report is a comprehensive report on our activities throughout the preceding ...

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  • June 2021
  • Type: Submission
  • Topic: Children in care, OCO info

  OCO’s submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on Children’s Rights and Alternative Care

  In June 2021, the OCO made a submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child to inform its deliberations ahead of the Day of General Discussion (DGD) on Children’s Rights and Alternative Care ...