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  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Summer 2024

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    The Ombudsman Quarterly Review for Summer 2024 is out now. In this issue:
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Spring 2023

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    In this issue the Chief Ombudsman calls for council workshops to be open by default; the Ombudsman’s new accessibility strategy; an overview of the Ombudsman’s engagements both locally and abroad; and a round up of the most popular guides on our website.
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Winter 2023

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    The Winter 2023 Ombudsman Quarterly Review is out now. In this issue:
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Autumn 2023

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    The Autumn 2023 Ombudsman Quarterly Review is out now.
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Summer 2023

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    In this issue: a first for a NZ Ombudsman at Waitangi, an illuminating piece from the architect of the Official Information Act, international news from integrity organisations in the Pacific and Australasia, new case notes and more.
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Spring 2022

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    The Spring 2022 Ombudsman Quarterly Review is out now. It includes Govt agencies receive OIA report card, Oranga Tamariki’s “litany of failures” in Malachi Subecz case, Ombudsman’s disability rights role featured at the UN, 60 years of the Ombudsman in NZ, and more.
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Winter 2022

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    The Winter 2022 Ombudsman Quarterly Review is out now. It includes an opinion piece from Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier on the OIA and LGOIMA, Mr Boshier’s submission to the Abuse in Care Royal Commission, a systemic investigation into the use of workshops by local councils is announced, and a stronger approach to delay deemed refusal complaints.
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Autumn 2022

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    This edition includes Ombudsman’s opinion on the Erebus Memorial consultation process, third report highlights overrepresentation of Māori in mental health seclusion, Chief Ombudsman elected as Second Vice President of IOI, council not entitled to withhold internal workshop presentation.
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Summer 2022

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    In this issue 2022 marks 60 years since the first New Zealand Ombudsman was sworn in, Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier gravely concerned by volatile environment at intellectual disability facility, Peter Boshier reaffirms the Ombudsman’s commitment to Te Tiriti during Waitangi, Guide on regulatory policy design during COVID-19, New case notes and more.
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Spring 2021

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    The OQR for Spring 2021 is out. In this issue:
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Winter 2021

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    The Ombudsman Quarterly Review (OQR) for Winter 2021 is out. In this edition:
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Autumn 2021

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    The OQR for Autumn 2021 is out. In this issue:
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Summer 2021

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    The OQR for summer 2021 is out. In this issue:
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Spring 2020

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    The OQR for spring 2020 is out. In this issue:
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Winter 2020

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    The OQR for winter 2020 is out. In this issue:
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Autumn 2020

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    In this issue: how our Office responded to lockdown COVID-19 inspections of prisons and care homes complaints resolution—avoiding a backlog Chief Ombudsman’s term renewed.
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Summer 2020

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    In this issue:
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Spring 2019

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    In this issue: official information practice investigations highlights from our Annual Report 2018/19 whistleblowing freedom of information.
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review - Winter 2019

    Outreach, Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    In this issue:
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review - Autumn 2019

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    The Autumn 2019 edition of the Ombudsman Quarterly Review is here now.
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Summer 2019

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    The Summer 2019 edition of the Ombudsman Quarterly Review is here now. Read about: what guidance materials people told us they use from our website; some of the questions we were asked at this year’s select committee hearing; which former staff member was awarded a knighthood.
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Spring 2018

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    The Spring 2018 edition of the Ombudsman Quarterly Review is here now.
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Winter 2018

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    The winter 2018 edition of the Ombudsman Quarterly Review is here now.
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Autumn 2018

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    The Ombudsman Quarterly Review for autumn 2018 is available now.
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Summer 2018

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    The Ombudsman Quarterly Review for Summer 2018 is available now.
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Spring 2017

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    In this OQR: engagement in the Pacific, the Ombudsman's Annual Report 2016/17, a Disability Rights update, Experts by Experience on our OPCAT visits, agency progress on the OIA, PrivacyLive on Right to Know Day
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Winter 2017

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    The latest Ombudsman Quarterly Review updates you on the work of our Office, from investigating alleged ministerial interference in an OIA response to leading a pilot prison inspection in Melbourne.
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Autumn 2017

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    Autumn 2017 edition of the Ombudsman Quarterly Review covers whistleblowing, budget funding, taser footage, OIA improvements, and more.
  • Ombudsman Quarterly Review Summer 2017

    Ombudsman Quarterly Reviews (OQR)
    The Summer edition of the Ombudsman Quarterly Review is now available. This issue includes: