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Office Annual Reports
Our annual report is a public record of our work for the financial year 2013-2014. It provides the community with an opportunity to find out what we have achieved and the way we have achieved it.
Reports to Parliament
The Surveillance Devices Act 2007 (NSW) allows for the use of surveillance devices to investigate crime and to enable evidence to be obtained of the commission of such crime or the identity or location of the offender(s). The NSW Ombudsman is required by the Act to conduct inspections of the surveil
Annual reports
This report is about the 567 children whose deaths were registered in NSW in 2013.
Reports to Parliament
In 2014 the Ombudsman completed a review of the operation of the offence of continuing to be intoxicated and disorderly in public (section 9 of the Summary Offences Act 1988). This section provides for police to issue a person with an on-the-spot fine or charge the person for continuing to be intoxi
Reports to Parliament
Part 5 of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 enables the NSW Police Force, the NSW Crime Commission and the Police Integrity Commission to apply to a judge of the Supreme Court for search warrants that enable officers of those agencies to covertly enter and search premises fo
Other submissions
NSW Ombudsman submission to Royal Commission on Statutory Victims of Crime Compensation Scheme Issues Paper - 16 June 2014
Annual reports
This is our second annual report under the Public Interest Disclosures Act 1994. The report provides a snapshot of the disclosures made and handled by public authorities this year. It also outlines the work of our office in monitoring the way in which public interest disclosures are being dealt with
Reports to Parliament
This report is a follow-up to our 2011 special report to Parliament, Keep Them Safe?, which discussed a number of critical challenges that needed to be met as part of reforming the child protection system.
Reports to Parliament
The Surveillance Devices Act 2007 (NSW) allows for the use of surveillance devices to investigate crime and to enable evidence to be obtained of the commission of such crime or the identity or location of the offender(s). The NSW Ombudsman is required by the Act to conduct inspections of the surveil
Reports to Parliament
This report outlines the findings from research undertaken by the NSW Child Death review Team into the causes of death of children with a child protection history over the 10-year period 2002-2011. T
Annual reports
The Official Community Visitors annual report is a public record of the official community visitors scheme for the financial year 2012-13. The report outlines the role of the visitors, their work, statistical information and financial reports.
Parliamentary submissions
NSW Ombudsman's submission to the Joint Select Committee on Sentencing of Child Sexual Assault Offenders.
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.