An easily accessible system of complaints is in place
Both health and disability facilities and prisons provided freephone numbers
and reasonable access to a telephone for contacting the District Inspectors and
the Health and Disability Commissioners or the Inspector of Corrections and
the Ombudsman’s office respectively. Patients, prisoners and residents could
also access a form for making a written complaint in all the facilities visits,
though confidential complaint boxes were only provided in the Children and
Young Persons’ Care and Protection residence and in the Youth Justice residence
visited.47 Complaint procedures were explained in an easy to understand
language which included illustrations to facilitate the needs of people with
learning difficulties.
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We were informed, however, that in some residences children and young people had to ask for the
complaint form.
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