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Responding to child sexual assault in Aboriginal communities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This report outlines the findings and recommendations from our audit of the implementation of the NSW Interagency Plan to Tackle Child Sexual Assault in Aboriginal Communities.The Interagency Plan was released in January 2007 and operated for five years.

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Functioning of the Financial Ombudsman in the system of consumer protection in the financial market

open access: yes, 2022
Rynek usług finansowych to jedna z najbardziej dynamicznie rozwijających się gałęzi polskiej gospodarki. Determinuje to konieczność budowy komplementarnego systemu ochrony konsumenta.
Rokosz, Paweł
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Identifying Deficiencies in Children's Residential Care in Finland: Inspectors' Views on Working With Information

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Abusive and illegal practices in residential care are a recognised issue in child welfare internationally; thus, the question of how these institutions are supervised is important. However, children's residential care is complex by nature, making its supervision a challenging task.
Jenni Repo
wiley   +1 more source

The Ombudsman in Nigeria: A Jurisprudential Overview

open access: yes, 2020
The Ombudsman or Public Complaints Commission which came up in the 19th century is a body established by law to address administrative radicalism and injustice in public institutions This body was of boisterous use in the Scandinavian countries in ...
Nnamdi P. Ben-Igwenyi   +2 more
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Procedural justice in Alternative Dispute Resolution: Fairness judgments among users of Financial Ombudsman services in Germany and the United Kingdom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article uses the lens of procedural justice theory to explore peoples’ experiences of an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) model: ombudsman services.
Bradford, B., Creutzfeldt, N.
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How Effective Are Ireland's Monitory Mechanisms in Improving Its Child Protection and Welfare Services?

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child protection and welfare systems are entrusted with significant power by governments and are therefore a significant focus of monitoring activities. Monitoring can help to build a better child protection system and to ensure child safety; track policy and legislative implementation and resource allocation; contribute to preventing systemic
Kenneth Burns   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Evolution and Consolidation of External Dispute Resolution Schemes in the Financial Sector: From the Banking Ombudsman to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The Australian Banking Industry Ombudsman (‘ABIO’) was the first external dispute resolution (‘EDR’) scheme set up and funded by industry members at a national level in Australia. It came into operation in 1990.
Ramsay, I, Webster, M
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From Audit to Prosecution: Institutional Collaboration as a Solution to Closing the Expectations Gap in Decentralized Governance

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A long‐standing topic of concern in the literature on governmental auditing is whether the aims of Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) or other central audit institutions should include detecting fraudulent use of public money. The balance of opinion has been against this proposition, largely for reasons of infeasibility.
Michael Barzelay, Sérgio N. Seabra
wiley   +1 more source

Unprincipled Principals in the Accountability Chain: Autonomy and Political Control Within Tax Administration in a Developing Country Context

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT SDG 16 emphasizes the need for accountable institutions, often based on the assumption that public officials are accountable to politicians, who in turn are accountable to citizens. However, in many developing countries, neopatrimonial governance can weaken this accountability chain, as politicians themselves may act as “unprincipled ...
Edidiong Bassey, Emer Mulligan
wiley   +1 more source

Efficiency, Equity, and Voice Under Institutional Pressure: Evaluating Workplace Dispute Resolution in the Global South

open access: yesIndustrial Relations Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies the efficiency, equity and voice (EEV) framework to dispute resolution mechanisms in Brazilian banking, empirically extending it in three ways: separating procedural from accessible equity; recognising collective strategic value beyond individual dispute performance; and treating efficiency‐equity trade‐offs as ...
Paulo Marzionna
wiley   +1 more source

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