74 | Annual Report 2019 complished. Now that it has been decided to set up a commission of inquiry, the clear presumption must be that further investigation of the matter will take place in the commission of inquiry’, says the Parliamentary Ombudsman, Jørgen Steen Sørensen. 23 October School management must tolerate critical Facebook comment 18 September ‘The management monitor and victimise people’, a schoolteacher wrote, among other things, on Facebook about the management of the municipal primary and lower secondary school where he worked. The customer centre of the Danish Tax Agency generally gives fast and clear answers. This is the conclusion of a review of 300 cases from the customer centre which the Ombudsman has just completed. The Ombudsman now concludes that the teacher’s comment was within the limits to the freedom of expression of public employees. For this reason it was unjustified for the municipality to give the teacher a disciplinary warning. 26 September 24 October Citizens get fast and clear answers from customer centre of Danish Tax Agency Foreign nationals have not had decisions on requirement to reside at departure centre and report to police reassessed Foreign nationals with tolerated residence status have not had the decisions that they are required to reside at a departure centre and report to the police at specified intervals reassessed for a long period of time. The Ombudsman therefore now criticises the Immigration Service and the National Police. Press release: Parliament elects interim Ombudsman Parliament has today elected Henrik Bloch Andersen, High Court Judge, interim Ombudsman from 1 November 2019 until a newly elected Ombudsman is able to take up office. Henrik Bloch Andersen is a judge at the High Court of Eastern Denmark and has until now acted as a so-called ‘ad hoc ombudsman’ in cases where the Ombudsman has been disqualified. 25 October 9 October When children are consulted as parties to a case, it must be done in a way so they can understand what the case is about When children are consulted as parties to a case, it must be done in a way so they can understand what the case is about and in a way which is considerate towards them. This is a central message in a specific case which the Ombudsman has just concluded about a notification of concern about the well-being of two children. Possibility of legislating to secure private school pupils’ right to be heard now to be discussed Despite comprehensive information campaigns, the views of children in private schools are in many cases not included, as stipulated by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, before they are removed or expelled from a school. For this reason the Ministry of Children and Education has informed the Ombudsman that steps will now be taken to discuss with the parties in Parliament the possibility of legislating to secure this right.