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13 May
Insufficient action to implement strip search safeguards for children and young people in detention
A report of the NSW Ombudsman, Paul Miller, has been tabled in Parliament today (Strip searches in youth detention: a follow-up report under section 27 of the Ombudsman Act 1974) calling on the Govern…
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4 May
The Ombudsman’s jurisdiction to investigate when there are related court proceedings
The report relates to a provision of the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Amendment (Family is Culture) Bill 2022, which proposes an amendment to the Ombudsman Act. The amendment conce…
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18 Jan
Wrong conduct and potential systemic issues in procurement of a contractor to fill a senior executive role
The NSW Ombudsman has made findings of wrong conduct by the Department of Planning and Environment (DPE) in procuring the services of a contractor to ‘act in’ a vacant senior executive rol…
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