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  1. In Focus: Avoiding pitfalls when agencies and public servants use social media

    The NSW Ombudsman has released a short paper looking at some ways the social media conduct of agencies and individual public servants could lead to concerns about possible misconduct or maladministration.

  2. Aboriginal Outcomes Strategy focus area 2 (out-of-home care) – were the targets achieved?

    The NSW Ombudsman, Paul Miller, has today tabled a report assessing the extent to which the State’s child protection department achieved its five-year strategy to reduce overrepresentation of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care (OOHC).

  3. NSW Ombudsman Supports Sydney WorldPride 2023

    Our team will be raising awareness about the ways we can help members of the LGBTQIA+ community with their complaints.​

  4. In Focus: Avoiding maladministration in the context of the NSW State election

    To support NSW public servants, the NSW Ombudsman has released a short paper on good administrative practices in the lead up to the state election.

  5. Ombudsman's audit report recommends improvements to councils' public interest disclosure practices

    A report by the NSW Ombudsman tabled today, has highlighted the importance of local councils having systems in place to ensure that public interest disclosures (PIDs) are encouraged, identified, and reported.

  6. NSW Ombudsman Annual Report and summary of investigations report tabled in Parliament

    The NSW Ombudsman’s Office Annual Report: 2021-22 has been tabled in Parliament today.

  7. NSW Child Death Review Team Annual Report 2021-22 tabled

    The NSW Ombudsman and Convenor of the NSW Child Death Review Team (CDRT) Paul Miller tabled the NSW Child Death Review Team Annual Report 2021-22 in Parliament today.

  8. COVID complaints to NSW Ombudsman increased in the second year of the pandemic

    In a report tabled in Parliament today, The COVID-19 pandemic: second report, NSW Ombudsman Paul Miller has looked back on complaints received by the Ombudsman since his March 2021 report on the COVID pandemic (2020 hindsight: the first 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic).

  9. Homeless people with complex needs may be falling through the safety net of Government-funded homelessness refuges

    In his report tabled in Parliament today, Specialist homelessness services: helping people with high or complex needs, Mr Miller found that an underlying problem is that the NSW Government has provided inadequate rules, guidance, and support to SHS about...

  10. Public housing failures in meeting the needs of tenants with disability

    In a report tabled in Parliament today the NSW Ombudsman, Paul Miller, has called for significant improvements to be made to the delivery of public housing disability modifications.

  11. 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 Government to explain why it has not implemented his recommendations to enact safeguards for the strip searching of children and young people

  12. 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.

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Journey Together artwork

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.