The Oberstown year in review
As we prepare our final Oberstown newsletter of the year, it is an apt time to reflect on the huge amount of positive achievements, and indeed events, that took place in Oberstown ...
Oberstown wins top health & safety award
Oberstown has been awarded an Enterprise Risk Network Recognition Award, presented by the State Claims Agency (SCA) at a ceremony on November 8.
Oberstown statement on publication of the HIQA inspection report
Oberstown Children Detention Campus notes the publication by HIQA today of a report on its inspection of the campus in March 2018. Find a statement on the report attached here.
Oberstown publishes first annual report for new Campus
Oberstown Children Detention Campus has today published its annual report for 2016/2017. This is the first report of the Board of Management for the new Campus and covers an 18-mon ...
Summer school in Oberstown builds relationships, teaches skills
Summertime in Oberstown can be a particularly difficult time for young people. School is out and young people want to be out and about. That’s where the Oberstown activities team c ...
‘It takes a village to raise a child in detention’
An article by Chair of the Board Ursula Kilkelly, in the Irish Times in July 2018, outlines the need for Oberstown to work with community organisations to share knowledge, to incre ...
Minister publishes reports from the Oberstown Review Implementation Group
The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs has published the interim and final reports of the Oberstown Review Implementation Group.
‘Oberstown featured on RTE Morning Ireland’
Oberstown Deputy Director (Care Services) Lena Timoney was interviewed on Morning Ireland on Thursday morning, 14th June, about research into Key Characteristics of young people in ...