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  • October 2023

  OCO Payments over €20,000 for Q3 2023

  OCO Payments over €20,000 for Q3 2023

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  • October 2023
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: Finance/OCO records

  OCO Prompt Payments Returns for Q3 2023

  OCO Prompt Payments Returns for Q3 2023

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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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  • October 2023
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: Finance/OCO records

  OCO 2022 Financial Statements

  OCO 2022 Financial Statements 

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  • September 2023

  OCO submission to Coimisiún na Meán

  In September 2023, the OCO made a submission to Coimisiún na Meán in response to its public Call for Inputs to inform its work to develop Ireland’s first online safety code. This code will apply to ...

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  • September 2023
  • Type: Report
  • Topic: Disability

  Jack’s Case: 2023 Update

  In November 2020 the Ombudsman for Children’s Office published its investigation into the care of Jack, an eight-year-old boy, who was first referred to the HSE Disability Services when he was 4 years old. Jack’s Case: ...

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  • September 2023
  • Type: Report
  • Topic: Disability

  Nowhere to Turn – children with disabilities left with no support

  In 2020 the OCO published an investigation into a little boy called Jack who, despite having no medical requirement, was left in a hospital bed for over two and half years because the HSE and Tusla initially ...

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  • August 2023
  • Type: Advice
  • Topic: Health

  Healthcare supports for transgender children; A children’s rights perspective from the Ombudsman for Children’s Office

  Access to multidisciplinary health services and supports for transgender children and children who are questioning their identity, is a children’s rights issue. Having ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Ireland is obliged under ...

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  • August 2023
  • Type: Submission
  • Topic: Youth justice

  Submission by the Ombudsman for Children’s Office to the Low Pay Commission July 2023

  Children under 18 are currently not entitled to the National Minimum Wage. Instead they are entitled to a sub-minimum rate, which amounts to 70% of the National Minimum Wage. The Low Pay Commission is examining the ...

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  • July 2023
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: OCO info

  OCO Payments over €20,000 for Q2 2023

  OCO Payments over €20,000 for Q2 2023