The NSW Ombudsman has released a new In Focus paper, Managing backlogs, examining a common and persistent challenge across public sector administration.

Más de la mitad de los municipios catalanes expuestos al riesgo de una emergencia nuclear (el 55,8 %) no tienen aprobado el Plan de actuación municipal de emergencia nuclear (PAMEN). Esto afecta a 58 municipios de un total de 104, todos ellos situados a una distancia de entre 10 y 30 kilómetros de las centrales nucleares de Ascó o Vandellòs (en la zona 2 según la delimitación del Plan de emergencia nuclear exterior –PENTA– aprobado por el Gobierno español). Estos datos se recogen en el informe Evaluación de los planes de actuación municipal de emergencia nuclear, que la síndica ha entregado esta mañana al Parlamento catalán y ha remitido a los municipios analizados y al Gobierno de Cataluña.

North Tyneside Council has agreed to pay £5,900 to a family after the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman found it failed to provide promised specialist technology that would have allowed a child with special educational needs to learn from home - the second time the Ombudsman has ruled against the council for the same child.

The Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia (Ombudsman) is preparing a comprehensive analysis of the implementation of the Act on Urgent Measures to Ensure Public Safety (the so-called Šutar Act) from the perspective of constitutionality, legality, and compliance with international human rights standards.

The Ombudsman of Aruba, Ms. Jurima Bryson, LL.M. has been elected Regional Director for the Caribbean & Latin American Region of the International Ombudsman Institute (IOI).

A high-level capacity-building workshop on anti-corruption, good governance, and effective complaint redressal mechanisms was jointly organized by the Provincial Ombudsman Sindh and Transparency International Pakistan in Karachi.

The Ombudsman of the Republic of Indonesia has officially enacted the Guidelines for Writing the Voluntary Ombuds Review through Chairperson’s Regulation Number 3 of 2026. These guidelines provide a systematic framework for documenting and reporting the contribution of public service oversight to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The Office of the Ombudsman Punjab conducted an inauguration ceremony of the renovated Regional Office Sheikhupura. The inauguration was carried out by Ombudsman Punjab, Ms. Ayesha Hamid, accompanied by Mr. Kaiser Saleem, Secretary, and Advisor Sheikhupura Regional Office, Malik Muhammad Aslam.