THE OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION IN 2015 In quite another sphere, our focus was on schools when we pointed out that also pupils at private schools have a right to be heard before they are, for instance, expelled. This follows from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which, just as other international conventions, has gained more prominence in the Ombudsman institution over the years. Our new Director General, Jonas Bering Liisberg, gives an overview of this development in the article ‘The Ombudsman and the international conventions’. We have also been preoccupied with the primary and upper secondary schools. Can they, for instance, handle the applicable rules when they have to make unpleasant decisions regarding their pupils? Deputy Head of Division Vibeke Lundmark deals with this question in the article ‘When schools have to be legal eagles’. As is well-known, opinions on the new Access to Public Administration Files Act are divided. Our task at the Ombudsman institution is to ensure that the users - not least the media - are granted the access to public files to which they are actually entitled. We continue to exert ourselves in this field. In the article ‘Extraction - the complex exercise of the Access to Public Administration Files Act’, Head of Division Lisbeth Adserballe and Special Legal Advisor Lise Puggaard explain one of the most complex issues of the Act. And finally, in the article ‘Eyewitness to forced deportations by the police’ Director of International Relations Klavs Kinnerup Hede tells you about our supervision of the deportations of foreign nationals. It is the story of an Afghan family who did not wish to return to Kabul. And the story of the Ombudsman’s role in a very sensitive area. Enjoy your read! 9