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  • 30 March 2009
  • Type: Press Release

  Children’s Ombudsman launches Connecting Communites to celebrate child-friendly communities

  Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan, plans to recognise and celebrate good work happening in local communities all over Ireland to improve the lives of children and young people through Connecting Communities, a new initiative undertaken by ...

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  • 9 January 2009
  • Type: Press Release

  Children’s Ombudsman announces investigation

  The Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan, has today (Friday) announced that her Office is to carry out an investigation to establish if there has been any maladministration in relation to the handling of the Child Protection ...

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  • 20 November 2008
  • Type: Press Release

  Ombudsman for Children launches national investigation into child protection

  Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan, has announced the launch of a systemic investigation into the implementation of the Children First: National Guidelines for the Protection and Welfare of Children. The investigation will focus on the Health ...

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  • 13 October 2008
  • Type: Press Release

  Children’s Ombudsman launches free-phone complaints line

  Children’s Ombudsman launches free-phone complaints line to make service more accessible to families A new free-phone number for complaints calls to the Ombudsman for Children’s Office has been launched today (Monday) to make it easier for ...

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  • 9 September 2008
  • Type: Statement

  Emily Logan delivers keynote speech at Building a Europe for and with Children conference in Sweden

  Emily Logan delivers keynote speech at ‘Building a Europe for and with Children’ conference in Sweden

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  • 9 September 2008
  • Type: Press Release

  Emily Logan to deliver keynote address at international children’s rights conference

  Emily Logan, will today (Tuesday) deliver the keynote speech, the Janusz Korczak Lecture, on the theme of Best Interests of the Child at a Council of Europe conference on children’s rights entitled Building a Europe for ...

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  • 3 September 2008
  • Type: Press Release

  Emily Logan appointed Chair of European Network of Ombudsmen for Children

  President McAleese will today (Wednesday) open the annual conference of the European Network of Ombudsmen for Children (ENOC) which is being held in Dublin for the first time, and which will mark the start of Emily ...

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  • 19 June 2008
  • Type: Press Release

  Oireachtas to hear views of 75000 children and young people

  Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children invite Ombudsman for Children’s young advisors to present Big Ballot findings The views of 75,000 children and young people who took part in the largest ever nationwide consultation ...

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  • 24 April 2008
  • Type: Press Release

  Statement by Ombudsman for Children on Child Protection

  For the Ombudsman for Children’s views on the issues of engaging in sexual relations with a child please see the Ombudsman for Children’s previous advice to the Oireachtas, given as per Section 7(4) of the Ombudsman ...

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  • 4 April 2008
  • Type: Speech, Statement

  Speech by Ombudsman for Children at the Conference ‘Youth Justice 2008’

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