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 special report was completed as part of the NSW Ombudsman’s Community Services monitoring and review functions.
Reports to Parliament
In this report we examine Revenue NSW’s conduct in its design and use of its garnishee order system for recovering unpaid fines and other state debts since 2016. The investigation looked at whether decisions produced by the garnishee order system complied with the legislation that gives Revenue the power to issue garnishee orders.
Reports to Parliament
A map of automated decision-making in the NSW Public Sector (ADM mapping report) is a special report under section 31 of the Ombudsman Act 1974 and an initiative by the NSW Ombudsman to increase visibility in the use of automated decision-making systems (ADM systems) across the NSW public sector.
Reports to Parliament
The Biennial report of the deaths of children in New South Wales: 2020 and 2021. This report contains two supplementary reports: Reviews of deaths of children in care and certain other children – reviewable deaths in 2020 and 2021; and Infant deaths from severe perinatal brain injury in NSW, 2016-2019: key thematic observations.
Reports to Parliament
The report outlines the activities undertaken by the Ombudsman’s office, including our provision of advice and training, and our monitoring and auditing activities, under the PID Act 1994.
Reports to Parliament
The NSW Ombudsman Formal investigations summary report 2022-23 is a summary of completed investigations by the Office from 1 October 2022 to 30 September 2023.
Reports to Parliament
The NSW Child Death Review Team (CDRT) Annual Report 2022-23 describes the operations and activities of the CDRT during the period 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023.
Reports to Parliament
Our latest report assesses what the NSW Department of Communities and Justice has done to improve responses to children who present alone to homelessness services. We first reported on this issue in 2018 and again in 2020. There are still outstanding actions needed.
Reports to Parliament
The Department of Communities & Justice (DCJ) had a five-year strategy to reduce overrepresentation of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care (OOHC). The strategy did not reduce Aboriginal over-representation in OOHC. None of the four targets were achieved. There was some progress toward each targ
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 recommendations made
Reports to Parliament
This report analyses the relationship between early childhood mortality and maternal and baby characteristics at the time of birth (perinatal conditions) using a linked data set covering all babies born in NSW between 2005 and 2018.
Reports to Parliament
The PID Act 1994 requires the Ombudsman to provide an annual report to the NSW Parliament on the Ombudsman’s activities under section 6B of the Act. Sections 6B(1)(e) and (f) require the Ombudsman to report to Parliament specifically on monitoring and auditing activities.
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.