NEWS PUBLISHED ON THE OMBUDSMAN’S WEBSITE IN 2014 regulations. That those regulations are not always 7 April observed was shown by a case which the Ombuds- Severe criticism of psychiatry centre for forcing a boy to go to school man raised following a monitoring visit to a nursing home in Esbjerg. A 9-year-old mentally ill boy with autism who was 13 March outside in the courtyard of Bispebjerg Mental Health No access to assistance by special advisers to ministers’ party political work Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry refused to come inside for lessons at the in-house school. Therefore, two of the staff took hold of the boy and pulled him inside while he resisted. A special adviser is able to assist a minister in party political work, even though the special The incident is described in a recently published adviser is paid by the ministry. There is no access statement from the Ombudsman who calls it a to files regarding the special adviser’s work in such matter for severe criticism. cases.  11 April This is illustrated by a new statement by the Ombudsman in two cases where journalists were not allowed to see e-mails on earmarked paternity leave sent from the special adviser to the Minister for Taxation. Ombudsman investigates conditions for mentally ill inmates of Vestre State Prison The Ombudsman has asked the Department of the Prison and Probation Service and Copenhagen 21 March Prisons for a detailed account of conditions for Ombudsman: No investigation of the National Agency for Patients’ Rights and Complaints mentally ill inmates at Vestre State Prison Hospital. The Ombudsman will not at the present time start a major investigation of the National Agency for Patients’ Rights and Complaints. This is the Om- 14 April Ombudsman seriously concerned about municipal cost cutting plan for children placed in care budsman’s reply to the Danish Medical Association Guldborgsund Municipality’s internal cost cutting which has pointed out a number of errors on the plan for the placement of children in care now part of the Agency and urged the Ombudsman to prompts the Ombudsman to issue a serious warning carry out a general investigation of the Agency’s about the consequent risk that the rights of the case processing. children may not be observed. 28 March 22 April The Ombudsman’s international activities in 2013 The Ombudsman now investigates complaints about access requests refused by Local Government Denmark and Danish Regions For the first time, the Parliamentary Ombudsman will publish an overall report on his international activities during the previous year. The Ombudsman has decided to include Local Government Denmark (KL) and the Danish Regions in his activities where the new Access to Public Administration Files Act extends to those two bodies. 157