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Kunzlik, Peter. "The Enforcement of EU Environmental Law: Article 169, the Ombudsman and the Parliament." European Energy and Environmental Law Review 6, Issue 2 (February 1, 1997): 46–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/eelr1997007.

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Problems of enforcing EU environmental law by means of Article 169 procedure, adopting the "Newbury Bypass" case as an example; the background to the case - the Environmental Impact Directive and the "pipe-line" point; referral of the Commission's withdrawal from the case to the EU Ombudsman; the office and powers of the Ombudsman; the four main points of complaint; the Commission's arguments to the Ombudsman; the Ombudsman's conclusions, including the "rather surprising" possibility that "a bona fide but wrong interpretation of the law could amount to maladministration"; and his decision to conduct an "own initiative" inquiry into the workings of Article 169 generally; simultaneous consideration of petitions in respect of the same matter by the Petitions Committee of the European Parliament; the Committee's view that the Commission's decision had been made at a political level and its instigation of further investigations; conclusion as to the importance of these references to the Ombudsman and the Parliament.
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Rupani, Riya, and Shaukat Ali. "An analytical study on the performance of the banking ombudsman scheme in India." Journal of Management Research and Analysis 9, no. 3 (August 15, 2022): 130–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.18231/j.jmra.2022.025.

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Customer satisfaction is an integral element in inculcating trust among the common people in the banking sector, which may also boost financial inclusion. Customer satisfaction can be measured in terms of complaints received about the bank services. The Banking Ombudsman Scheme was introduced in India in 1995 and revised in 2002 to enable the resolution of complaints of customers of banks relating to certain services rendered by the banks. To analyse the performance of the Banking Ombudsman Scheme in India based on selected parameters, a descriptive research design has been used. The present study is based on secondary data compiled mainly from “The Banking Ombudsman Scheme-Annual report” which is published by RBI every year from 2015-16 to 2019-20. For analysis purposes, descriptive statistics tools such as percentages have been used.The Ombudsman scheme is a blessing and a very prominent medium for redressal of grievances by the general public against banks and banking services. The resolution and the pace of resolution of the complaints is an essential aspect of consumer satisfaction. Also, the total number of banking transactions is growing because of inclusion, new modes of payments & settlements coming, and newer products, offerings & services. considering this, RBI should increase the number of Ombudsmen proportionately. BO‟s offices have started outreach activities for creating awareness among customers But still, it needs to be more rigorous, especially in rural areas.
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Hamburg, Steven P., and Susan I. Ask. "The environmental ombudsman at the University of Kansas." New Directions for Higher Education 1992, no. 77 (1992): 55–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/he.36919927708.

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Olenev, Mikhail. "Structural analysis of the national ombudsman activities in ensuring environmental human rights." E3S Web of Conferences 258 (2021): 05023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202125805023.

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In this article, the author examines the organization of the activities of the national ombudsman (Human Rights Commissioner in the Russian Federation) to ensure human rights in the field of ecology, conducts a structural analysis of the received applications from citizens on environmental issues, and also makes a number of proposals to improve the activities of the ombudsman. Based on the results of the study, the main topics of citizens’ appeals regarding violations of the rules for the environment use and abuse of environmental human rights submitted to the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation were identified. The identification of borderline points by the national ombudsman requires attention in the field of environmental protection of citizens and giving them a public discussion, allows to focus the attention of society and the state on the most problematic aspects of ensuring human rights in the field of ecology, which helps the responsible state authorities to build their work more effectively in this direction, since the state of nature, environment and the ecological situation ultimately affect the development of both individual citizens and society and the state as a whole.
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Marpaung, Lintje Anna, Tami Rusli, Tegar Adiwijaya, and Yulia Hesti. "THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE OMBUDSMAN OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PROVINCE OF LAMPUNG IN COMPLETING REPORTS REGARDING THE DISTRIBUTION OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY THE COVID-19 NATIONAL DISASTER IN LAMPUNG." Wacana Hukum 27, no. 1 (February 28, 2021): 19–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.33061/1.wh.2021.27.1.5005.

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This research discusses the Effectiveness of the Ombudsman of the Republic of Indonesia Representatives of the Province of Lampung in Completing Reports Regarding the Distribution of Social Assistance for Communities Affected by the Covid-19 National Disaster in Lampung Province. With the formulation of the problem 1) How is the Effectiveness of the Ombudsman of the Republic of Indonesia Representatives of the Province of Lampung in Completing Reports Regarding the Distribution of Social Assistance for Communities Affected by the Covid-19 National Disaster in Lampung Province? 2) What were the inhibiting factors experienced and the efforts made by the Ombudsman of the Republic of Indonesia representatives of the province of Lampung in completing the report? The conclusions of this study are 1) Completion of reports related to the distribution of social assistance to communities affected by the Covid-19 national disaster in Lampung Province carried out by the Ombudsman of the Republic of Indonesia Representatives of the Province of Lampung is quite effective but not maximized, this is because the settlement regulatory mechanism is only based on in the Circular that has differences with the Ombudsman Regulations of the Republic of Indonesia 2) The main obstacle to the completion of public reports experienced by the Ombudsman of the Republic of Indonesia Representatives of the Province of Lampung is the issuance of the Circular of the Chairman of the Ombudsman of the Republic of Indonesia which overrides higher Regulations, and efforts made to overcome obstacles The Head of the Ombudsman Representative of the Republic of Indonesia, Lampung Province, took another policy in the form of continuing to use several requirements stipulated in the Ombudsman Regulation of the Republic of Indonesia.
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Almeida, Karlo Jozefo Quadros de, Francis Nakle de Roure, Roberto José Bittencourt, Regina Maria Dias Buani dos Santos, Fernanda Viana Bittencourt, Leila Bernarda Bernarda Donato Gottems, and Fábio Ferreira Amorim. "Active health Ombudsman service." Revista de Saúde Pública 52 (August 6, 2018): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/s1518-8787.2018052017291.

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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the active health Ombudsman service as an instrument to evaluate the quality of delivery and birth care in the Cegonha Network of the Federal District of Brazil. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study of the telephone survey type carried out with 1,007 mothers with deliveries between October 15, 2013 and November 19, 2013 in the twelve public maternity hospitals that make up the Cegonha Network of the Federal District of Brazil. The instrument has 25 multiple choice or Likert scale questions, including sociodemographic data and acceptability evaluation in five domains: accessibility, relationship between the patient and health professionals, conditions of the structure of the service, information to the patient, and equity and opinion of the patient. We have studied qualitative or categorical variables according to the frequency and distribution of proportions. We have used the score transformed into a scale from zero to 100 for the analysis of the Likert-type scale questions. Results have been expressed as mean and standard deviation. RESULTS: Access to prenatal appointments was evaluated as good or excellent by 86.1% of the participants and laboratory tests was evaluated as good or excellent by 85.2% of them. The access to imaging tests was evaluations as good or excellent by 45.7% of the women; 79.5% of the interviewees had their delivery in the maternity hospital where they sought initial care and 18.3% received a home visit by a community health agent after discharge. Most women reported that newborns were placed skin-to-skin immediately after birth, 48.9% had a companion at the time of the delivery, 76.3% were advised about the first appointment of the newborn, and 94.8% were advised on breastfeeding in the maternity hospital. Regarding the evaluation of health professionals, 85.9% of the women considered reception and cordiality as good or excellent at the prenatal care and 94.8% considered it as good or excellent at the maternity hospital. CONCLUSIONS: The active health Ombudsman service has contributed to evaluate the quality of public management by allowing the incorporation of the perspective of users of the health service in the evaluation of the acceptability of the Cegonha Network in the Federal District of Brazil.
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Vries–Stotijn, Anne de. "The European Ombudsman Urges the European Commission to Abandon its Unlawful Pesticide Approval Practice." European Journal of Risk Regulation 7, no. 2 (June 2016): 413–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1867299x0000581x.

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On 18 February 2016, the European Ombudsman delivered a decision (case 12/2013/MDC) that has the potential to thoroughly shake up the manner in which the European Commission authorises plant protection products (PPPs).Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN-Europe) brought the case before the Ombudsman. It alleged that the Commission approves potentially unsafe PPPs and disregards data gaps in the risk assessment, thereby ignoring concerns raised by the European Food and Safety Authority. PAN-Europe also argued that the Commission fails to set appropriate risk mitigation measures and to check Member States’ compliance with those measures. The Ombudsman largely agreed with PAN-Europe. She found that the Commission indeed authorised substances, even when it was unclear whether a substance met the legal health and environmental safety requirements. The Ombudsman made several recommendations to the Commission for bringing its approval practice, which constitutes maladministration, in conformity with EU pesticide law.
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Bándi, Gyula. "Interests of Future Generations, Environmental Protection and the Fundamental Law." Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Law = Agrár- és Környezetjog 15, no. 29 (November 24, 2020): 7–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.21029/jael.2020.29.7.

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The Fundamental Law of Hungary has a special focus on sustainable development, the protection of the interests of future generations and the common heritage of the nation. The ombudsman for future generation is a special and unique institution, responsible for the safeguard of these issues. The primary mission of the ombudsman is to remind the state, including all the state organs and levels, of this task and responsibility, also to propose legislation and to examine individual complaints. In this article we provide a breif overview of those part of the Fundamental Law, which are well-equipped by the decisions of the Constitutional Court. Among others is is clear from the above cases, that everyone has a three-fold obligation towards the interest of the future generation: conservation of options, conservation of quality, and conservation of access. These are supported by the principle of non-derogation and also by the wide interpretation of precautionary principle, in connection with the fundamental right to the environment.
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Uzelac, Ozren, and Marijana Dukić-Mijatović. "Practice of extended competence of the Ombudsman for the financial services of the United Kingdom in the field of insurance." Pravo - teorija i praksa 38, no. 4 (2021): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/ptp2104001u.

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In this paper, the authors discuss the decision-making method of the UK Financial Services Ombudsman enabling more favourable outcomes for an insured person in relation to the strict application of law. The authors delineate the manner in which the Ombudsman and the courts act and present specific examples in which the Ombudsman has recognized some rights to the insured whose exercising they themselves did not demand from the insurer. In the practice of the Ombudsman, there are numerous examples in which disputes arose due to a poor understanding of the breadth of the insurance coverage by the insured, the quality and scope of the damage repair service, a restrictive interpretation of the subject of insurance by the insurer. The circumstances on which the Ombudsman made decisions in disputes were based on the standard of a "vulnerable insured person" and a free belief of this body regarding the existence of unfulfilled expectations, which could contribute to the further improvement of the legal framework for the protection of the insured persons.
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Sudarsono, Dionisius Purwo. "Hasil Investigasi Ombudsman Indonesia Tentang Dwelling Time di Empat Pelabuhan Besar Indonesia." Binamulia Hukum 11, no. 1 (July 9, 2022): 43–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.37893/jbh.v11i1.671.

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Dwelling time impor peti kemas di empat pelabuhan besar Indonesia, hasil penyelidikan Ombudsman Republik Indonesia mendapatkan beberapa temuan yang ditujukan pada Kementerian terkait dan PT. Pelindo (Pelabuhan Indonesia). Hasil temuan tersebut merupakan rapor buruk tentang pelayanan publik di Tanjung Priok Port, Tanjung Perak Port, Belawan Port dan Soekarno Hatta Port. Sebuah studi yang dilakukan oleh Ombudsman Indonesia menemukan sejumlah penemuan yang merugikan dan menghambat perekonomian Indonesia. Selain penyalahgunaan dwelling time keberangkatan oleh pemangku kepentingan di empat pelabuhan, terdapat kendala infrastruktur, staf, serta regulasi dan manajemen. Ombudsman akan mengawal temuan yang didapat hingga ke Presiden untuk ditindaklanjuti ke arah perbaikan layanan masyarakat (publik), dalam kaitannya kasus percepatan dwelling time ini, serta menjadi mediator antara aspirasi masyarakat dan pejabat instansi publik terkait. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa dalam pelayanan publik kepelabuhanan, standar operasional harus lebih transparan dan sistematis, yang menjadi standar operasional bagi pemerintah, dan perkembangan kegiatan kepelabuhanan yang sangat pesat. Ombudsman RI perlu memantau dan mengawal kasus dwelling time ini hingga diperbaiki oleh pemerintah dan tersedia untuk pelayanan publik.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Environmental Ombudsman"

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Pecháčková, Ivana. "Role ombudsmana v ochraně životního prostředí." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-334425.

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The thesis deals with the possible role of ombudsmen in environmental protection. The work starts by the description of the establishment of this institution in the world and subsequently in the Czech Republic. A crucial role played the Act No. 349/1999 Coll., the Ombudsman Act, which has been implemented into national law of the Czech Republic after many discussions on December 30, 1999. This act provides for activities of the ombudsman and the way how to lodge a complaint with the ombudsman. This treatise on the ombudsman activities in general creates also the basis for his/her procedure in specific cases concerning the environment. The part of this thesis forms case studies serving as the example how the ombudsman can participate in the environmental protection in practise.
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Books on the topic "Environmental Ombudsman"

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Materials, United States Congress House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous. Recent developments in the EPA Office of the Ombudsman: Joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials and the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, July 17, 2002. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2001.

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Works, United States Congress Senate Committee on Environment and Public. Ombudsman Reauthorization Act of 2003: Report (to accompany S. 515) together with additional views (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). [Washington, D.C: U.S. G.P.O., 2003.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ombudsman Reauthorization Act of 2002: Report (to accompany S. 606) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). [Washington, D.C: U.S. G.P.O., 2002.

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Ombudsman Reauthorization Act of 2002: Report (to accompany S. 606) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). [Washington, D.C: U.S. G.P.O., 2002.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ombudsman's office at the EPA, and other program improvements: Hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, September 26, 2000 on S. 1763, Ombudsman Reauthorization Act of 1999; S. 1915, Small Community Assistance Act of 1999; S. 2296, Project Search Act of 2000; and S. 2800, Streamlined Environmental Reporting and Pollution Prevention Act of 2000. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2002.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ombudsman Reauthorization Act of 2003: Report (to accompany S. 515) together with additional views (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). [Washington, D.C: U.S. G.P.O., 2003.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ombudsman Reauthorization Act of 2002: Report (to accompany S. 606) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). [Washington, D.C: U.S. G.P.O., 2002.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ombudsman Reauthorization Act of 2003: Report (to accompany S. 515) together with additional views (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). [Washington, D.C: U.S. G.P.O., 2003.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ombudsman's office at the EPA, and other program improvements: Hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, September 26, 2000 on S. 1763, Ombudsman Reauthorization Act of 1999; S. 1915, Small Community Assistance Act of 1999; S. 2296, Project Search Act of 2000; and S. 2800, Streamlined Environmental Reporting and Pollution Prevention Act of 2000. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2002.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Office of the Ombudsman at the Environmental Protection Agency: Hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session on S. 606, a bill to provide additional authority to the Office of Ombudsman of the Environmental Protection Agency, June 25, 2002. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2004.

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Book chapters on the topic "Environmental Ombudsman"

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Ruppel-Schlichting, Katharina. "Chapter 27: The Ombudsman and the Environment." In Environmental Law and Policy in Namibia, 693–706. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748933564-693.

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"Making a complaint to the European Ombudsman." In A Guide to EC Environmental Law, 142–48. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315066530-28.

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Morgera, Elisa. "International Oversight." In Corporate Environmental Accountability in International Law, 227–86. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198738046.003.0006.

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This chapter assesses the evolving mandate and practices of the international initiatives on corporate environmental accountability and responsibility, with a view to drawing comparative observations about the functions they perform. The chapter will first place international oversight approaches in the context of the academic debate on compliance. It will focus on analysing the practice of the most well-developed initiatives (the OECD implementation procedure and the IFC Ombudsman) and then contrast them with more incipient initiatives, such as the country visits by UN Special Rapporteurs and the integrity measures under the UN Global Compact. The aim of the analysis is to understand the contribution of these processes not only to the implementation of international standards in a particular context, but also to further international standard-setting.
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Shindo, Mahito. "Environmental Ombudsman: Its Role in the System of Accountability Mechanisms for Administrative Environmental Decision Making*." In International Judicial Practice on the Environment, 391–416. Cambridge University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108684385.016.

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"The Position of National Minorities Perceived through the Authorisations of the Local Ombudsman in Republic of Serbia." In Looking Within: Finding an Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship Lens, 229–36. BRILL, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9781848882515_021.

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Moser, Carolyn. "Administrative Accountability: Separate but Complementary Fora." In Accountability in EU Security and Defence, 232–75. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844815.003.0007.

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This chapter is dedicated to administrative accountability regarding the civilian dimension of EU security and defence. It first decorticates the administrative environment of civilian CSDP. The scrutiny covers institutional, legal, and procedural components (reporting lines and attribution schemes, disciplinary arrangements, etc). The chapter then outlines the small role national authorities play in administrative accountability. Thirdly, the assessment concentrates on the role of the European Ombudsman as a quasi-judicial accountability forum for both individual complaints and overall administrative questions. The evaluation of the Ombudsman’s role is followed by a study of the dual function of the European Court of Auditors, which simultaneously fulfils an auditing and a consultative function. Finally, the chapter discusses the complementarity of the Ombudsman and the European Court of Auditors.
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"Freedom of Information in the European Union." In Macdonald on the Law of Freedom of Information, edited by John MacDonald and Ross Crail. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198724452.003.0016.

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The Treaty of Lisbon 2007 made the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights legally binding. Article 42 of the Charter sets out the right of access to documents, and today has the same legal value as the Treaties. The law relating to public access to EU documents is in Council Regulation (EC) 1049/2001. It is directly applicable in all Member States. In 2008 the Commission released a proposal for amending the Regulation but no amendments have yet been made. The Regulation, which is examined in detail in Chapter 11, including its definitions and exceptions, is attractive in its brevity compared with the 2000 Act. Another parallel regime for access to environmental information has been created by Regulation (EC) 1367/2006 applying the Aarhus Convention to the Community Institutions. The chapter also discusses the proposals for reform made by the European Ombudsman and others prompted by recent decisions of the European Court.
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"The Impact of Social and Political Environments and Their Influence on the Work of the Ombudsman: Hong Kong." In The International Ombudsman Yearbook, Volume 5 (2001), 73–82. Brill | Nijhoff, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004480094_008.

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Jones, David P. H. "Child abuse and neglect." In New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, 1731–40. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199696758.003.0226.

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Child abuse and neglect (child maltreatment) is a combination of a consensus about what comprises unacceptable child rearing/care, together with what children have a right to be free from. This is made explicit in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which sets out basic rights and standards for judging children's welfare, including, but not limited to, maltreatment. It incorporates both maltreatment of children within families and that arising from wider social influences, including child labour and sexual exploitation, and children in war zones. Maltreatment affects the healthy and normal course of development. It causes deviation from an expected trajectory, preventing the developing child's negotiation of sequential tasks and disrupting normal transaction between different facets of development. Therefore maltreatment is the very antithesis of adequate child care and rearing, posing a major public health threat. Adequate rearing of the young is such a fundamental activity that the state must be concerned with the overall welfare of children within its society; in family settings where they are normally brought up, and in schools, hospitals, and residential settings. While the Convention provides a framework, several states have developed a children's ombudsman, with wide-ranging powers to oversee the status of children's welfare and to tackle obstacles to it. There are laws within each society to regulate the care and welfare of children, specifying the consequences if children are maltreated. In England and Wales, the Children Acts 1989, and 2004 address the overall welfare of children, including those deemed in need of extra help and support, and provide a legislative structure for those children who are at risk of, or are actually being, significantly harmed (child maltreatment). Countries vary in their response to child maltreatment. In the United States, any professional who has reason to suspect that a child is being maltreated is legally required to inform the local child welfare agency (mandatory reporting). Some countries in Europe (e.g. Belgium and Holland) have a system whereby child-maltreatment concerns are dealt with confidentially, through health and social care supportive systems, rather than through primarily legal methods. The United Kingdom lies between these extremes, but relatively closer to the United States model than to the ‘confidential doctor’ system. Whatever system is in place, it is clear from the scope of the problem of child maltreatment that multidisciplinary working is a core requirement. A developmental-ecological model is the most useful conceptual framework, which draws together the various factors known to contribute or be associated with the predisposition, occurrence, course and effects of child maltreatment. It incorporates individual and interpersonal factors, family influences, immediate neighbourhood ones, together with broader social influences on child rearing and care. However, these layers of increasing social complexity, which surround the individual child, are not static. In addition to transactions between factors, there are important influences historically, and subsequent to any maltreatment, which have an impact on outcome. This inclusive conceptual framework enables genetic and environmental factors to be integrated in a manner that can inform clinical assessment and intervention.
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