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.
Reports to Parliament
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
Reports to Parliament
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.
Reports to Parliament
This paper sets out the relevant legislative interpretation issues, considers whether, as a matter of policy, LALC public officials should receive protection for making reports of serious wrongdoing, and seeks feedback on whether LALCs should be exempt from the PID Act reporting requirements
Reports to Parliament
A special report to Parliament under sections 27 and 31 of the Ombudsman Act 1974.
Reports to Parliament
The focus of this year’s annual report on the Public Interest Disclosures Act 1994 (PID Act) is the operational challenges faced by public authorities. Throughout the report, we highlight examples of the advice we have given to both public officials and public authorities when they contact us. If co
Reports to Parliament
From 2006 onwards the NSW Ombudsman’s office has received complaints and public interest disclosures alleging that the water management principles and rules were not being properly complied with and enforced. We have undertaken three prior investigations into those complaints and disclosures that re
Reports to Parliament
This report builds on the earlier work by addressing a number of critical questions about effective approaches to coordination of injury prevention initiatives.
Reports to Parliament
This annual report describes the operations of the NSW Child Death Review Team (CDRT) during 2016 – 17. The report has been prepared pursuant to section 34F of the Community Services (Complaints, Reviews and Monitoring) Act 1993 (The Act).
Reports to Parliament
The Public Interest Disclosures Steering Committee is established under section 6A of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1994 (PID Act). Under this section, the Ombudsman, as chairperson of the Steering Committee, is required to prepare an annual report of the Committee’s activities and any recommen
Reports to Parliament
This report examines the vital and complex area of behaviour management of students in NSW schools.
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.