Reports to Parliament
The Official Community Visitors annual report is a public record of the official community visitors scheme for the financial year 2017-18. The report outlines the role of the visitors, their work, statistical information and financial reports.
Reports to Parliament
This report demonstrates the need for a comprehensive safeguarding approach in NSW for vulnerable adults living in the community – including an effective response to the abuse and neglect of both vulnerable adults with disability and older people. The Ombudsman has called on the NSW Government to im
Reports to Parliament
This annual report describes the operations of the NSW Child Death Review Team (CDRT) during 2017 – 18. The report has been prepared pursuant to section 34F of the Community Services (Complaints, Reviews and Monitoring) Act 1993.
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A special report to Parliament under section 31 of the Ombudsman Act 1974.
Reports to Parliament
These are the responses from NSW Ombudsman to questions on notice from Portfolio Committee No. 4 – Legal Affairs: Inquiry into Parklea Correctional Centre and other operational issues.
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This report is about the implementation of the NSW Government’s Whole of Government Commitments to Effective Complaint Handling (the Commitments), which form part of the Complaint Handling Improvement Program (CHIP). The CHIP involved a collaboration between the NSW Ombudsman, the office of the Cust
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This report is about the deaths in 2014-2017 of 494 people with disability who lived in residential care. The report identifies a range of actions by disability providers and health services that are required to reduce preventable deaths.
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This report focuses on problems which arose during the transfer of some water regulation and enforcement functions from the Department of Primary Industries Water to a state owned corporation, WaterNSW – a process referred to as the Transformation.
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This report draws attention to critical legal, policy and service gaps in the response to homeless children. In 2016-17, just over 5,000 unaccompanied children and young people aged 12-18 presented to a homelessness service to access support and a place to stay. More than one third of these children
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This report makes a range of recommendations, including making changes to the public register; improving intelligence sharing to assist Fair Trading’s licence assessment processes; and making changes to internal guidance for staff.
Reports to Parliament
The NSW Child Death Review Team (CDRT) works to prevent and reduce the deaths of children aged from birth to 17 years. To do this, we maintain a register of child deaths occurring in NSW and analyse information about these deaths to identify any patterns or trends.
Reports to Parliament
Correcting the record: Investigation into water compliance and enforcement 2007-17 is a special report to Parliament under sections 26 and 31 of the Ombudsman Act 1974.
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.