Nuacht

Latest News

• 
  • 21 Lúnasa 2009
  • Cineál: Óraid
  • Ábhar: Cosaint Leanaí, Leanaí faoi chúram, Ceartas Óige

  Children as citizens: the public policy challenge

  Speech by Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan at the Merriman Summer School In an orphanage in Warsaw in the early part of the twentieth century a man named Janusz Korczak, a paediatric doctor, created an environment ...

• 
  • 21 Lúnasa 2009
  • Cineál: Óraid, Ráiteas

  Speech by Emily Logan at the Merriman Summer School

  Read the Ombudsman for Children’s speech at the Merriman Summer School – Children as Citizens:the Public Policy Challenge

• 
  • 16 Iúil 2009
  • Cineál: Preaseisiúint

  Children need and deserve a distinct and independent Ombudsman for Children

  The Ombudsman for Children’s Office understands that the report of An Bord Snip Nua (the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes) contains a proposal to merge the Ombudsman for Children’s Office with other ...

• 
  • 8 Iúil 2009
  • Cineál: Preaseisiúint

  Legal gaps mean children remain vulnerable

  Gaps in law, policy and practice mean that some children remain vulnerable and are not receiving the full support of the State, according to Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan, today (Wednesday) at the launch of her ...

• 
  • 4 Iúil 2009
  • Cineál: Preaseisiúint

  Logan to promote Irish Ombudsman for Children model in Turkey

  Children’s Ombudsman, Emily Logan, travels to Ankara today (Monday), at the invitation of UNICEF in Turkey. In collaboration with the Turkish Bar Association, UNICEF has organised an awareness raising week on ‘Independent Child Ombudsman’. The main ...

• 
  • 30 Meitheamh 2009
  • Cineál: Ráiteas

  Presentation to the Joint Committee on Health and Children

  Read the presentation by the Ombudsman for Children to the Joint Committee on Health and Children here

• 
  • 9 Meitheamh 2009
  • Cineál: Preaseisiúint

  Statement on the investigation into the handling of the child protection Audit…

  Statement on the investigation into the handling of the child protection Audit of Catholic Church Dioceses by the HSE and the Department of Health 09/06/09 The Ombudsman for Children’s Office has written to the HSE to ...

• 
  • 27 Bealtaine 2009
  • Cineál: Ráiteas

  Statement on the Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse

  The Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse documents gross, systemic, and widespread violations of the rights of children placed in institutions in Ireland during the period 1936 to 2000. As Ombudsman for Children ...

• 
  • 22 Bealtaine 2009
  • Cineál: Ráiteas

  Opinion article by the Ombudsman for Children for the Irish Daily Mail

  Read Opinion piece by the Ombudsman for Children for the Irish Daily Mail here

• 
  • 17 Bealtaine 2009
  • Cineál: Ráiteas

  Opinion article by the Ombudsman for Children for the Sunday Business Post

  Read the Ombudsman for Children opinion piece in the Sunday Business Post here – ‘Consistency needed for dealing with child death’