Library

• March 2025
• Type: Finance/OCO records

OCO FOI Disclosure Log to December 2024

This is the Freedom of Information Disclosure Log for the Ombudsman for Children’s Office up to 31st December 2024.

• February 2025
• Type: Report

OCO Protected Disclosure Annual Report 2024

This is the report of the Ombudsman for Children’s Office for the year ending 31st December 2024. The Ombudsman for Children’s Office can confirm that it has in place both internal reporting channels and procedures and ...

• February 2025
• Type: Report

OCO Report on Home Care and Support Services for Children: the need for Independent Oversight

Home care and support services provide a vital lifeline to children with complex healthcare needs and their families, enabling them to be supported to live at home. However, there is currently no regulatory framework for these ...

• February 2025
• Type: Report
• Topic: OCO info

OCO Corporate Procurement Plan 2024 to 2026

This document sets out a strategic approach to procurement for the Ombudsman for Children’s Office. In doing so, it presents the aims for procurement at OCO, its vision and purpose with an explanation as to how ...

• January 2025
• Type: Views of young people
• Topic: Disability, Education, Health, Housing, Mental health

Voices of Tomorrow: OCO YAP Asks for the New Government

The Ombudsman for Children’s Office Youth Advisory Panel (YAP), a diverse group from across Ireland, has come together to share five key asks for the incoming Government. YAP members: “We may not be able to vote ...

• January 2025
• Type: Finance/OCO records

OCO Payments over €20,000 for Q4 2024

• January 2025
• Type: Finance/OCO records

OCO Prompt Payments Returns for Q4 2024

• January 2025
• Type: Submission
• Topic: Health

OCO submission on the HSE Inclusion Health Framework

The OCO welcomes the development of the new Inclusion Health Framework and the stated intention to advance health outcomes for marginalised and vulnerable groups, including children. The purpose of our submission is to highlight some of ...

• 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 ...