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  • September 2016
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: OCO info

  Annual Report 2015

  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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  • September 2016
  • Type: Submission
  • Topic: Youth justice

  Garda Code of Ethics

  The OCO submitted preliminary views on the preparation of a Code of Ethics for the Garda Síochána on 6 May 2016 followed by a submission on the 23 September 2016. The OCO welcomed the opportunity to ...

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  • September 2016
  • Type: Reports to the UN

  Submission for the 25th Session of the Working Group on Universal Periodic Review

  The Ombudsman for Children is mandated to promote the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and aims to ensure that Ireland complies with its international human rights obligations. This document outlines views and ...

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  • July 2016
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: OCO info

  OCO Strategic Plan 2016-2018

  The Strategic Plan outlines the OCO’s vision and values, as well as three specific objectives which will inform the work of the office over the next three years. Included in these objectives is the challenge of ...

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  • June 2016
  • Type: Report
  • Topic: Education

  Reasonable Accommodations for Certificate Examinations (RACE): Complaints to the Ombudsman for Children

  This report provides an overview of common themes in complaints made to the Office of the Ombudsman for Children (OCO) about the Reasonable Accommodations for Certificate Examinations (RACE) scheme administered by the State Examinations Commission (SEC). ...

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  • June 2016
  • Type: Submission
  • Topic: Children in care, Disability, Education, Housing, Immigration, Mental health

  Department of Education and Skills Statement of Strategy 2016-2018

  The Ombudsman for Children’s Office made a submission on the Department of Education and Skills Statement of Strategy 2016-2018 on 8 June 2016 As part of this submission, the OCO stressed the importance of implementing a ...

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  • December 2015
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: OCO info

  Prompt payments by public sector 2015

  It is a Government requirement that all central Government Departments, the Health Service Executive, the local authorities and all other public sector bodies, including the Ombudsman for Children’s Office pay their suppliers within 15 calendar days of receipt ...

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  • December 2015
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: OCO info

  Financial Statement 2014

  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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  • November 2015
  • Type: Advice
  • Topic: Adoption

  Submission by the Ombudsman for Children on the General Scheme of the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015

  The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs published the General Scheme of the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill (‘the General Scheme’) on 27th July 2015 and subsequently forwarded the General Scheme to the Oireachtas Committee on ...

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  • November 2015
  • Type: Report
  • Topic: Children in care, Family law

  Observations on the Department of Children and Youth Affairs consultation paper on Guardian ad Litem Arrangements

  The OCO welcomed the initiative of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA) to prepare a policy approach to the reform of guardian ad litem (GAL) arrangements in proceedings under the Child Care Act 1991. ...