Forensic Disability Service - second report

In 2019, the former Ombudsman investigated the administration of the Forensic Disability Service (FDS). Results of that investigation and recommendations were published in The Forensic Disability Service report – An investigation into the detention of people at the FDS. 

In November 2022, the Ombudsman began a new own-initiative investigation under the Ombudsman Act 2001, to examine the FDS’s current levels of legislative compliance, with both the Forensic Disability Act 2011 and the Human Rights Act 2019. It also examined the implementation of the 2019 report recommendations.

The 2024 and 2019 reports investigate the treatment of people detained at the FDS, a facility for the involuntary detention and care of people found unfit to stand trial as a result of an intellectual or cognitive disability.

Report

Forensic Disability Service - second report:  A review of the implementation of recommendations made in the 2019 Forensic Disability Service report (PDF 1.4MB)

Snapshot

Snapshot - Forensic Disability Service - second report  (PDF 196.9KB)

Media release

Ombudsman presents the Forensic Disability Service - second report (PDF 179.5KB)