New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMMUNITY SERVICES (COMPLAINTS, REVIEWS AND MONITORING) ACT 1993 - SECT 36

36 Systemic review of deaths of children at risk of harm, children in care or other persons in care

(1) The Ombudsman has the following functions:

(a) to monitor and review reviewable deaths,

(b) to formulate recommendations as to policies and practices to be implemented by government and service providers for the prevention or reduction of deaths of children in care, children at risk of death due to abuse or neglect, children in detention centres, correctional centres or lock-ups or persons in residential care,

(c) to maintain a register of reviewable deaths occurring in New South Wales after a date prescribed by the regulations classifying the deaths according to cause, demographic criteria or other factors prescribed by the regulations,

(d) to undertake research or other projects for the purpose of formulating strategies to reduce or remove risk factors associated with reviewable deaths that are preventable.

(2) For the purpose of exercising those functions the Ombudsman may:

(a) keep under scrutiny systems for reporting reviewable deaths, and

(b) undertake detailed reviews of information relating to reviewable deaths, and

(c) analyse data with respect to the causes of reviewable deaths to identify patterns and trends relating to those deaths, and

(d) consult with and obtain advice from any person or body having appropriate expertise.