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  1. Regional training workshops: ​ Hunter and Central Coast​ November 2023 ​

    The NSW Ombudsman will be delivering training workshops at the NSW ICAC’s rural and regional outreach program in the Hunter and Central Coast regions from 21 to 29 November 2023.​

  2. Inviting submissions on the operation of the Mandatory Disease Testing Act

    We monitor the operation and administration of the Mandatory Disease Testing Act 2021. This includes monitoring how agencies and persons exercise their functions under the Act.

  3. In Focus: Avoiding pitfalls when agencies and public servants use social media

    The NSW Ombudsman has released a short paper looking at some ways the social media conduct of agencies and individual public servants could lead to concerns about possible misconduct or maladministration.

  4. Aboriginal Outcomes Strategy focus area 2 (out-of-home care) – were the targets achieved?

    The NSW Ombudsman, Paul Miller, has today tabled a report assessing the extent to which the State’s child protection department achieved its five-year strategy to reduce overrepresentation of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care (OOHC).

  5. NSW Ombudsman Supports Sydney WorldPride 2023

    Our team will be raising awareness about the ways we can help members of the LGBTQIA+ community with their complaints.​

  6. In Focus: Avoiding maladministration in the context of the NSW State election

    To support NSW public servants, the NSW Ombudsman has released a short paper on good administrative practices in the lead up to the state election.

  7. Ombudsman's audit report recommends improvements to councils' public interest disclosure practices

    A report by the NSW Ombudsman tabled today, has highlighted the importance of local councils having systems in place to ensure that public interest disclosures (PIDs) are encouraged, identified, and reported.

  8. NSW Ombudsman Annual Report and summary of investigations report tabled in Parliament

    The NSW Ombudsman’s Office Annual Report: 2021-22 has been tabled in Parliament today.

  9. NSW Child Death Review Team Annual Report 2021-22 tabled

    The NSW Ombudsman and Convenor of the NSW Child Death Review Team (CDRT) Paul Miller tabled the NSW Child Death Review Team Annual Report 2021-22 in Parliament today.

  10. COVID complaints to NSW Ombudsman increased in the second year of the pandemic

    In a report tabled in Parliament today, The COVID-19 pandemic: second report, NSW Ombudsman Paul Miller has looked back on complaints received by the Ombudsman since his March 2021 report on the COVID pandemic (2020 hindsight: the first 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic).

  11. Homeless people with complex needs may be falling through the safety net of Government-funded homelessness refuges

    In his report tabled in Parliament today, Specialist homelessness services: helping people with high or complex needs, Mr Miller found that an underlying problem is that the NSW Government has provided inadequate rules, guidance, and support to SHS about...

  12. Public housing failures in meeting the needs of tenants with disability

    In a report tabled in Parliament today the NSW Ombudsman, Paul Miller, has called for significant improvements to be made to the delivery of public housing disability modifications.

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Journey Together artwork

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and pay our respects to all Elders past and present, and to the children of today who are the Elders of the future.

Artist: Jasmine Sarin, a proud Kamilaroi and Jerrinja woman.