- 1. A thousand allegations of abuse for just 18 prosecutions, NSW Ombudsman reveals ...
- (Child protection statistics)
- More than 1000 incidents of abuse and neglect of people with disabilities have been reported to the state government in the past two years, the NSW Ombudsman has revealed, but only a tiny fraction have ...
- Created on 31 August 2016
- 2. "SMH Article "Third of mental health patients should not be in care - Ombudsman"" ...
- (NSW Ombudsman)
- ... Ombudsman found about a third of psychiatric patients living in mental health facilities did not need to be there, but could not be discharged because no accommodation was available. The NSW Ombudsman, ...
- Created on 29 November 2012
- 3. Corruption Coverups in NSW Child Protection - Issue 4 : The Ombudsman can’t interview DoCS personnel that won’t “Fess Up” to Fabricating Evidence ...
- (NSW Ombudsman)
- In this issue we will continue to explore the role of the NSW Ombudsman in allowing Child Protection Authorities to fabricate evidence during Child “Protection” operations, simply to cover their arses. ...
- Created on 10 August 2012
- 4. "Pick the Picture that Best Depicts the NSW Ombudsman's Oversight" ...
- (NSW Ombudsman)
- At Alecomm we understand that the NSW Ombudsman's Memorandum of Understanding with Community Services is to try to "resolve" complaints without actually investigating them. Secton 5.1 MOU DoCS/Ombudsman ...
- Created on 19 January 2012
- 5. "Corruption Coverups in NSW Child Protection - Issue Three: The NSW Ombudsman Considers The Protection of Children Not Relevant to Child Protection Investigations." ...
- (NSW Ombudsman)
- ... Ombudsman allows corruption to continue in NSW Child Protection due to his "ethical fatigue". We apologise for not producing more articles over recent months. In this article we will refer to a recen ...
- Created on 17 January 2012
- 6. "NSW Ombudsman Bruce Barbour said 30 children at high-risk of abuse killed known to Department of Community Services" ...
- (NSW Ombudsman)
- The previous Labor government stripped NSW Ombudsman Bruce Barbour of the power to compile direct statistics on dead children who had been the subject of a risk-of-harm report. But in releasing a report ...
- Created on 23 August 2011
- 7. The Ombudsman’s General Practice is to Conduct Formal Investigations and Make Reports ? ...
- (NSW Ombudsman)
- The Ombudsman’s general practice is to conduct formal investigations and make reports only when: • there has been a failure to properly address a serious problem; • there has been a serious abuse ...
- Created on 18 May 2011
- 8. Corruption Coverups in NSW Child Protection - Issue Three : The Ombudsman (Case Background) ...
- (NSW Ombudsman)
- In Issue One of Corruption Coverups in NSW Child Protection Alecomm alerted readers how the NSW Ombudsman failed to recognise Conflicts of Interest in the NSW Child Abuse Industry. Alecomm noted that ...
- Created on 06 February 2011
- 9. Corruption Coverups in NSW Child Protection - Issue Two: The Ombudsman ...
- (NSW Ombudsman)
- In this issue we delve deeper into the complaints mechanisms of the Ombudsman, and look at how complaints are passed around in a manner which enables Government agencies to pass the buck and give other ...
- Created on 05 February 2011
- 10. Corruption Coverups in NSW Child Protection - Issue One: The Ombudsman and Ethical Fatigue ...
- (NSW Ombudsman)
- ... demand that Government address it. We at Alecomm appear to be the only ones courageous enough to take this on for individuals. We note that the NSW Ombudsman has a great big banner over his head whic ...
- Created on 31 January 2011
- 11. A FIVE-year-old girl wrongly removed from her parents was denied a visit with her dying father, even after the Ombudsman ruled DOCS bungled the case. ...
- (NSW Ombudsman)
- ... and that it was "inappropriate for me to intervene." Deputy Ombudsman Steve Kinmond found the girl, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was removed after a DOCS case worker made ...
- Created on 22 January 2011
- 12. Ombudsman to be put in charge of the Child Death Review Team ...
- (NSW Ombudsman)
- After the Wood enquiry they made the Ombudsman in charge of the Child Death Review Team. It's been a terrific outcome. It's avoided the waste of resources and it puts it all in the hands of an organisati ...
- Created on 07 April 2010
- 13. ‘Absolutely appalling’: 100 vulnerable children died in NSW last year
- (Child Protection NSW media and newspaper articles)
- ... of this report to support caseworkers to respond to the challenges facing vulnerable children and families across NSW.” The findings followed an ombudsman’s report in October that criticised the hig ...
- Created on 21 December 2021
- 14. COVID-19 vaccinations and federal discrimination law
- (Covid)
- ... in Australia also has discrimination legislation, which may apply in different ways. People must comply with both federal and state/territory law. The Fair Work Ombudsman and Safe Work Australia have ...
- Created on 14 September 2021
- 15. Child protection 'dishonest, dangerous'
- (Victoria DHHS)
- ... and fathering her four children, as well as strong calls for a major overhaul of the state's child protection services. Another scathing report from Victoria's Ombudsman found the system slow to act, under-resour ...
- Created on 08 September 2021
- 16. One out of four deaths of children from families with a child protection history
- (Child abuse industry deaths in NSW)
- A report from the NSW Ombudsman criticises the state government for closing cases for children reported to be at risk of serious harm without a caseworker making face-to-face contact with the family. The ...
- Created on 25 August 2021
- 17. South Australia’s Chief Executive Cathy Taylor should be stood down
- (Uncategorised)
- ... Wingard MP, Minister for Police, Emergency Services & Correctional Services, and Grant Stevens, Commissioner of Police, SA. CC: Scott Morrison, Prime Minister; Wayne Lines, Ombudsman, SA April… 2020 ...
- Created on 13 May 2020
- 18. All the Attorney-General’s Men – Corrupt VCAT Show Trial J134/2011 (Part 3)
- (Uncategorised)
- ... campaigned for years to the Victorian Premier and Attorney-General on the need to heed the calls of a damning 2009 Annual Report to Parliament by Victorian State Government Ombudsman on widespread corruption ...
- Created on 10 May 2020
- 19. VCAT J134/2011 – CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES
- (Uncategorised)
- ... two sets of such Supreme Court rulings, coupled with a damning State Government Ombudsman 2009 Annual Report to Parliament would not be enough for the Legal Services Commissioner to get the message as ...
- Created on 10 May 2020
- 20. New child abuse claims about former Families SA staff
- (Children in residential care facilities Australia)
- ... which was why it did not investigate a number of notifications. Last year, Families SA was again savaged by the state’s Ombudsman in a report into the case of two siblings murdered with their mother ...
- Created on 12 February 2020
- 21. Share your Story..."Speak out Loud"
- (Guardianship)
- ... to people like Health Ombudsman, and other government entities only drains you. I begged and cried my eyes out so they would help me remove mum from the hospital of death but they just ignored me, this ...
- Created on 05 February 2020
- 22. PM blames drought, but there’s been over 100 cases of maladministration in Murray Darling in less than one year
- (Water)
- ... the risk of failure of water supply to the city of Broken Hill", the…www.smh.com.au2 // WaterNSW had to be investigated for misleading the ombudsman WaterNSW — the body responsible for compliance wit ...
- Created on 23 January 2020
- 23. How the child protection system failed to keep Maggie safe
- (Children abused in residential care facilities)
- ... a and stay connected to their culture. It is designed to accommodate four Aboriginal children. There are about 400 children living in residential and commercial care facilities in South Australia. ...
- Created on 11 October 2019
- 24. 'My husband abused me for ten years - and HE won custody of our children'
- (Court Ordered Abuse)
- ... h one case to prevent the likes of what happened to me. "We want an independent ombudsman and domestic abuse training across the board for the social services, CAFCASS, even job centres as victim are ...
- Created on 03 October 2019
- 25. Ritual Abuse in Australia
- (Uncategorised)
- ... month that the Ombudsman was investigating the alleged mishandling of a number of child sexual abuse cases by Victoria Police. The Age advised him to contact the Ombudsman, which he has since done. One ...
- Created on 26 September 2019
- 26. Murdered woman's family blame government department for her horrific death
- (Child Protection Western Australia media and newspaper articles)
- ... y have requested the WA Coroner investigate the events leading up to Charlotte's death and the family are writing to the WA Ombudsman, who has the power to review domestic violence deaths and make recommendati ...
- Created on 09 September 2019
- 27. Murdered woman's family blame government department for her horrific death
- (Mothers who died because of Child Protection)
- ... y have requested the WA Coroner investigate the events leading up to Charlotte's death and the family are writing to the WA Ombudsman, who has the power to review domestic violence deaths and make recommendati ...
- Created on 09 September 2019
- 28. Half a million lost childhoods
- (Uncategorised)
- ... of finding them is remote. Victoria’s ombudsman, George Brouwer, revealed in March that the government has committed hundreds of breaches of records management legislation. He found that the Departmen ...
- Created on 30 July 2019
- 29. Personal stories of contact with the Queensland adult guardianship system
- (Australian public guardian corruption)
- ... blasted by the Victorian Ombudsman over the quality of care provided to vulnerable people following an investigation in 2003. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Rosslyn September 25, 2015 ...
- Created on 19 July 2019
- 30. The EU #UnitedforSorina
- (Forced Adoptions)
- ... give in and blew the whistle about her situation in 2016, she was fired in a range of procedures, where all conspired: OLAF, European Ombudsman, Disciplinary Committee (IDOC) and the successive Secretaries-General ...
- Created on 11 July 2019
- 31. Avoid the kangaroo court and the Public Trustee at any price
- (Guardianship)
- ... of the Public Trustee. There is no point complaining to the Queensland Ombudsman, the Crime and Corruption Commission, the Queensland Attorney General, the Federal Attorney General, the Legal Services Comm ...
- Created on 27 April 2019
- 32. ACT to remove sex crime immunity that originated in Ancient Rome
- (Legislation and Acts)
- ... who in an institution must make reports to the Ombudsman. An independent review of the prospective laws by Justice Julie Dodds-Streeton found senior officers of the Ombudsman had experienced difficult ...
- Created on 22 February 2019
- 33. Penny-pinching, raking in huge fees: public trustees under scrutiny
- (Guardianship)
- ... al services royal commission didn’t look at public trustee companies, and the aged care royal commission is not expected to examine either guardianship or financial management. In Victoria, Ombudsman Debo ...
- Created on 03 February 2019
- 34. ACT police admit they unlawfully accessed metadata more than 3,000 times
- (Uncategorised)
- ... a total of 3,365 times, not 116 as previously disclosed in an explosive commonwealth ombudsman’s report on Monday. The new disclosures include a total of 240 cases that resulted ...
- Created on 26 January 2019
- 35. Do not reverse onus of proof for black economy crimes, say experts
- (Uncategorised)
- ... ent and the community for transparency, and additional oversight from the tax ombudsman, the Inspector-General of Taxation and the Australian National Audit Office. Mr Croker noted that the ATO already ...
- Created on 14 January 2019
- 36. Starved adopted teen dead, found in diaper on linoleum floor, records reveal
- (Adopted to death)
- ... wa Citizens Aide Ombudsman has launched its own investigation in hopes of improving services and processes to prevent future child deaths. "What happened to not only Natalie but her siblings was ...
- Created on 01 November 2017
- 37. A behind the scenes look into corporate fraud in Australia
- (Political Corruption Articles)
- ... Darren – Police, Protective Services Officer. Corrupt/or adverse mention CROSSLEY, C. R. G. – Judge, County Court. Not adversely named CROWE, Roger – Ombudsman’s Department. Corrupt/or adverse mention CULLEN, ...
- Created on 17 October 2017
- 38. How the elderly lose their rights
- (Guardianship)
- ... going to the beauty salon. She never returned. Marlene Homer, the ward whose ailments were depression and “strange thoughts,” was taken away in a van, screaming. Liebo had asked the state ombudsman to ...
- Created on 09 October 2017
- 39. Police want to read encrypted messages, but they already have significant power to access our data
- (Police Corruption and Brutality)
- ... AFP reports breach of TIA Act to Commonwealth Ombudsman. AAP Image/Lukas Coch The current state of telecommunications surveillance The government already has various powers to access metadata, the ...
- Created on 08 September 2017
- 40. Ontario Families United describes global child protection perfectly.
- (Child Protection)
- ... e of Social Work avoiding ethical oversight for 18 years or to refuse to cooperate with the Ombudsman and the Privacy Commissioner unless forced to by law, or to completely disregard fundamental justic ...
- Created on 20 July 2017
- 41. [Un]Safe Pathways: Children's Commissioner's concerns for kids in care of for-profit provider revealed
- (NGOs and other system leeches)
- ... to keep the information private. It took intervention from the office of Tasmania's ombudsman and subsequent direction for the information to come to light. In the correspondence, Mr Morrissey tol ...
- Created on 10 July 2017
- 42. Child abuse industry deaths in Canada
- (Child abuse industry deaths in Canada)
- ... of Social Work, that refuses to cooperate with Ombudsman and the Privacy Commissioner unless the law in Ontario specifically says they have to? How did 92 children in care die between 2008/2012 accordin ...
- Created on 27 June 2017
- 43. Why is Ontario's Children's Aid Societies shrouded in more secrecy than CSIS?
- (Canadian Child Protection Services)
- ... to save just one child were there any evidence of wrong doing she .... Killed ombudsman oversight of the children's aid society and replaced it with an agency that doesn't have the same mandate ...
- Created on 05 June 2017
- 44. AFP data breach: six cases of alleged police misconduct investigated
- (Police Corruption and Brutality)
- ... in legislation cloaked in national security.” The commonwealth ombudsman is investigating the AFP’s handling of the journalist’s case. The journalist’s identity remains unknown, and they not been informe ...
- Created on 29 April 2017
- 45. Top disability services provider Lifestyle Solutions investigated over series of deaths
- (Children in residential care facilities Australia)
- One of Australia's most high-profile providers of disability services, Lifestyle Solutions, is under review by both the Victorian Government and the NSW Ombudsman after a series of deaths of its client ...
- Created on 27 March 2017
- 46. Centrelink’s debt collection ‘pushed him over the edge’
- (Uncategorised)
- ... is generating false debts. The Commonwealth ombudsman is currently investigating the system, while Human Services Minister Alan Tudge, who has previously defended the program, announced that the government ...
- Created on 18 February 2017
- 47. LCJ concerned about McKenzie friends ‘preying’ on vulnerable clients
- (Law Courts and Legal Matters)
- ... is user-friendly. The experience of the financial services ombudsman service, using case officers effectively to try and resolve disputes, has worked,' he said. ‘What we must make sure is that if pe ...
- Created on 30 November 2016
- 48. The invisible foster care system
- (Child Protection Truths)
- ... lain to. Organisations and legal services, even the Ombudsman, deny all responsibility of knowing what is going on. It is very cloak and dagger you can't fight and beat a system you can't see. ...
- Created on 08 November 2016
- 49. ombudsman ...
- (Tags)
- ombudsman ...
- Created on 01 September 2016