News

The Biennial report of the deaths of children in New South Wales: 2020 and 2021, incorporating reviewable deaths of children, has been tabled in Parliament and today.

The NSW Ombudsman’s Office Annual Report 2022-23 has been tabled in Parliament today.

The NSW Ombudsman has published new guidelines to help NSW agencies meet their obligations under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2022 (PID Act), which commences on 1 October 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.​

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.

The Mandatory Disease Testing Act 2021 came into force in July 2022. It provides for the mandatory blood testing of a person where a health, emergency or public sector worker who is working, comes into contact with that person’s bodily fluid. To obtain an order contact must be as a result of the person’s deliberate action, and testing the person’s blood is justified in all the circumstances.

An important part of our monitoring is to consider the opinions and experiences of persons who may have been subject to an MDT order or may have made an application for an MDT order.  
We are also interested in submissions from organisations who have advised or otherwise represented these persons.

Submissions to be received by 19 December 2023.

To make a submission visit: Public submissions on the Mandatory Disease Testing Act