by Jennifer Hough | Oct 9, 2018 | Media, News, Uncategorized
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...
by Jennifer Hough | Sep 27, 2018 | News
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-month period from 1 June 2016 to 31 December 2017. The new Campus was established under the...
by Jennifer Hough | Aug 29, 2018 | News
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 comes in. Their job is to keep up to 50 teenagers occupied and happy during those long...
by Jennifer Hough | Aug 2, 2018 | Media, News
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 increase awareness of the challenges faced by young people in detention and to foster greater...
by Jennifer Hough | Jun 28, 2018 | News
The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs has published the interim and final reports of the Oberstown Review Implementation Group. Upon publishing the reports Minister Katherine Zappone said, “I am delighted to publish the Interim and Final Reports of the Review...
by Jennifer Hough | Jun 18, 2018 | Media, News, Uncategorized
On June 14, Oberstown hosted an event to highlight the issues of mental health and substance misuse in young people in detention. Attended by a wide range of stakeholders, speakers at the event include Dr Tony Bates, Founding Director of Jigsaw, Tony Geoghegan, CEO...
